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"Laxity" led Uyghur women to marry Chinese men and not wear veils after Yaqub Beg's rule ended. Uyghurs also believe that they have Han Chinese ancestry from historical intermarriage (see around 10th century), such as those living in Turpan. From 1911-1949 when the Kuomintang ruled, many Uyghur girls approached Han soldiers for relationships. [1]
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Monday called on China to implement recommendations to amend laws that violate fundamental rights, including in the Xinjiang and Tibet regions. Rights groups ...
In April 2021, the Chinese government released 5 propaganda videos titled, "Xinjiang is a Wonderful Land", and released a musical titled "The Wings of Songs" which portrayed Xinjiang as harmonious and peaceful. [89] [91] [112] The Wings of Songs portrays "a rural idyll of ethnic cohesion devoid of repression, mass surveillance" and without ...
Chinese men, women, and children are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking in at least 57 other countries. Chinese women and girls are subjected to sexual exploitation throughout the world, including in major cities, construction sites, remote mining and logging camps, and areas with high concentrations of Chinese migrant workers. [150]
Uluyol found a common tactic is for Chinese authorities to threaten Uyghurs in Turkey by using their families back in Xinjiang. China’s aim, he said, is to stop them engaging in activism ...
The 2014 Yarkant attacks occurred in Yarkant County in Xinjiang on 28 July. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Authorities stated that an armed gang of masked militants carried out attacks against civilians as well as local police across towns in the county.
He called Xinjiang a “core area and a hub” in China’s program of building ports, railways and power stations connecting it to economies reaching from Central Asia to Eastern Europe.
Mihrigul Tursun was born in China on 28 December 1989. Her family lives in the Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang.In May 2015 after returning from Egypt, where she was studying, and where she had married and had triplets, [4] while her husband remained in Egypt, she was allegedly taken into custody by Chinese authorities, imprisoned for several weeks in the ...