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Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Patricio Henríquez and released in 2014. [1] Following up on his 2011 film You Don't Like the Truth, the film documents the story of 22 Uyghur men who were captured as prisoners during the War in Afghanistan, and incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay for over a decade despite the lack of evidence that they had committed any ...
Xinjiang's Hui population increased by more than 520 percent between 1940 and 1982, an average annual growth of 4.4 percent, while the Uyghur population only grew at 1.7 percent. This dramatic increase in Hui population led inevitably to significant tensions between the Hui and Uyghur populations. Many Hui Muslim civilians were killed by Uyghur ...
The Kizil massacre (Chinese: 克孜爾大屠殺) occurred in June 1933, when Uighur and Kyrgyz Turkic fighters broke their agreement not to attack a column of retreating Hui Chinese soldiers and civilians from Yarkand New City on their way to Kashgar. [1] An estimated 800 Chinese Muslim and Chinese civilians were killed by Turkic Muslim ...
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The Oyez Project is an unofficial online multimedia archive website for the Supreme Court of the United States. It was initiated by the Illinois Institute of Technology 's Chicago-Kent College of Law and now also sponsored by Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute and Justia .
Teresa Haley, the top official of the Illinois NAACP, is under fire from the state’s governor and others after a leaked video call with NAACP leaders around the state appears to show her ...
(The Center Square) – Without going into details on who is going to pay for the ideas discussed, the Illinois Senate Human Rights Committee held a hearing Tuesday called “Housing as a Human ...
Their dream is to become tightrope walkers, an ancient Uyghur tradition. The children start learning to tightrope walk, but within a few months, they are judged inadequate by their coach. Now some of their dreams change: one wants to become a teacher, another a professional singer.