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The Uyghurs, [note 2] alternatively spelled Uighurs, [24] [25] [26] Uygurs or Uigurs, ... There was no single name used for their identity; various native names ...
As with other ethnic groups in the United States, Uyghur Americans also have several organizations. The most well-known organizations are: the Uyghur American Association, [5] a Washington D.C.–based advocacy organization which was established in 1998 by a group of Uyghur overseas activists to raise the public awareness of the Uyghur people
Because they were one of the many highly developed nations under the Mongols, the Uighurs held high positions at the Mongol court. Tata-tunga was the first scribe of Genghis Khan and mastermind behind the Uighur-Mongolian script that the Mongols used. The founder of the Eretna (1335–1381) in Anatolia was a Uighur commander of the Ilkhanate.
In 2008, Michael Clarke, an Australian terrorism scholar, noted that "there has emerged within the Uighur émigré community a tendency to portray the Uighurs as experiencing a form of 'cultural genocide '", citing as an example a 2004 speech by World Uyghur Congress president Erkin Alptekin. [293]
Uyghurs who came to Kazakhstan in the 1950s and 1960s began in the 1970s to revive traditional Uyghur practises which had been lost by earlier Uyghur migrants. [16] The revival of the meshrep movement in Kazakhstan, which aimed to reinforce religious mores and "to unite Uyghur men... under a common ideology", quickly spread to China and became so politically potent that it was banned by the ...
Recently leaked Chinese government documents reveal how local officials targeted Muslim minorities in China. Satellite images show that many of them have been held in detention camps across the ...
China's oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
The cries echoing off the walls of the jail frightened and weakened him in equal measure, Mamattursun Omer said. “I didn't see, but I could hear the unbearable screams coming from both sides of ...