Uighurs Muslims

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• Recently, the official documents from China’s Xinjiang have shed new light on the violent methods used by authorities against Uighurs.

• Several countries, including the US, UK, Canada and the Netherlands, have accused China of committing genocide – defined by international convention as the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.

Who are Uighurs?

• They are a predominantly Muslim, Turkic ethnicity who live in China’s North-Western Xinjiang Province.
• They speak their own language, which is similar to Turkish, and see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations
• They are mainly a sedentary village-dwelling people who live in the network of oases formed in the valleys and lower slopes of the Tien Shan, Pamirs, and related mountain systems. 

Source:TH