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This matches with my personal experience; in early 2003, I visited a friend living in a village near Hotan, which is mentioned in the Phoenix Weekly article as a common place where families receive a cut of the earnings their children make.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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This matches with my personal experience; in early 2003, I visited a friend living in a village near Hotan, which is mentioned in the Phoenix Weekly article as a common place where families receive a cut of the earnings their children make.
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State media quoted an official in Xinjiang calling the Hotan clash in July a "terrorist" attack.
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State media quoted an official in Xinjiang calling the Hotan clash earlier this month a "terrorist" attack, adding that four people were killed when a crowd set upon a police station.
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The government blamed the incidents in Kashgar and Hotan -- both in the majority Uighur southern part of Xinjiang -- on religious extremists and separatists who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.
China sentences four to death for Xinjiang violence Reuters 2011
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Wednesday's raid in Hotan "was an excuse for more suppression," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress.
World Watch 2011
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At least three dozen people, including the attackers, were killed in three recent attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar, despite a massive security presence that was tightened following the riot in Urumqi two years ago in which at least 197 people were killed.
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The Hotan area has been on the front lines of separatist clashes for more than a decade.
World Watch 2011
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At least three dozen people, including the attackers, were killed in three recent attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar, despite a massive security presence that was tightened following the riot in Urumqi two years ago in which at least 197 people were killed.
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The government blamed the incidents in Kashgar and Hotan -- both in the majority Uighur southern part of Xinjiang -- on religious extremists and separatists who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.
China sentences four to death for Xinjiang violence Reuters 2011
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