D.T. provides his observations on policy trends and the growing number of political campaigns targeting Uyghurs since 2002. Officially, nothing has changed in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The region continues to be extolled as a paradise for tourists and investors, both from abroad and other regions in China, a place to enjoy pristine landscapes, bountiful fruits and vegetables and exotic p ...

The ethnic identity of Uighurs in western China is being systematically eroded. Government policies, including those that limit use of the Uighur language, severe restrictions on freedom of religion, and a sustained influx of Han Chinese migrants into the region, are destroying customs and, together with employment discrimination, fuelling discontent and ethnic tensions. The government has mounted an aggres ...

The Uyghurs, a Turkic people comprising a major part of the populationof the Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China, also havesizable communities in the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, espe-cially in Kazakhstan, where they numbered 220,000 in 1999 (altogetherthe Uyghur population in the newly independent states numbers morethan 300,000). The Central Asian Uyghur community played a signifi-ca ...

Introduction The Uyghurs are the native people of East Turkistan, also known as Shinkiang or Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The latest Chinese census gives the present population of the Uyghurs estimate according to Chinese official statement 8,345,622 million. But the Uyghurs estimate themselves more than twenty millions. There are also 1500,000 Uyghurs in West Turkistan mostly known as Kazakhstan, Uzbe ...

Great politicians will pass from the earth, and the strongest imperial states will collapse and disappear from a new generation's memory, but wisdom, civilization, and cultural heritage will continue to playa significant role among human beings as long as there is human history. The land of the Uyghurs today consists of the Tarim, Junghar, and Turpan basins, situated in the center of Asia. This region has h ...