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- noun a member of the Uyghur ethnic group
- proper noun a
Turkic ethnic group ofpeople living innorthwestern China . - proper noun the language of the Uyghur people.
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Examples
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The ethnic policy of the Chinese government has turned the Uyghur in Han regions into privileged social group, while at the same time, the Uyghur is deprived of their religious freedom and autonomy back home in the northwest region.
Global Voices in English » China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond 2009
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I call it Russian album, though the songs in English, Uyghur and Kazakh will be there as well.
neweurasia.net 2009
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The Hui comprise the vast majority of Chinese Muslims, so the Uyghur are a minority within a minority in that regard.
baithak 2009
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I thought that ? was originally just a hanzi representation of the first part of "Uyghur".
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Chinese communist has bunch of affirmative adction, for example different population management policy that has allowed Uyghur population grow like ants, and the laws are lienent towards them, letting them to be like locusts harming cities.
Global Voices in English » The Uyghurs: Persecuted Muslim Minority in NorthWest China 2009
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Can we say that Uyghur people are natural born thieves?
Global Voices in English » China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond 2009
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In theory the Uyghur region is autonomous, in reality Uyghur is social minority in Xinjian.
Global Voices in English » China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond 2009
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Today we take a look at the situation faced by the Uyghur people, a Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region of China, where their culture is being obliterated by the central Chinese government, first because they were deemed separatists and now, after the September 11 attacks to the USA, also as terrorists.
Global Voices in English » The Uyghurs: Persecuted Muslim Minority in NorthWest China 2009
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The regional government said that the mass incident was masterminded by the World Uyghur Congress.
Global Voices in English » China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond 2009
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To be more specific, the Uyghur American Association (a nonprofit US charity) is part of the World Uyghur Congress.
Global Voices in English » China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond 2009
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