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Riots in Xinjiang
Uyghur inhabitants of Urumqi try to get back to normal life, accompanied by Chinese security forces in Tianshan district, Urumqi Xinjiang China. Image: Remko Tanis, Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 According to official reports 184 people were killed and over a thousand injured in the riots in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China last week. The violence was stemmed by a massive influx of Chinese security forces.The Uyghurs in Northwestern China are Muslims speaking a Turkish-related language with close cultural and ethnic ties to neighbouring Central Asian nations. The brief existence of an independent Eastern Turkestan Republic in part of Xinjiang was ended in 1949 when Xinjiang became a part of the People’s Republic of China, as an autonomous region. Since then there has been a large scale immigration of Han Chinese into the region with Han Chinese now constituting 40% of the population. Ever since 1991 there has been sporadic violence in Xinjiang and the region is strictly controlled by the Chinese authorities. In this week’s In Focus blog Joakim Enwall, sociolinguist and associate professor at Uppsala University, describes some of the political and linguistic background facts to the recent events.
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The China Autonomy Programme (CAP) at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) was established in 2001 with funding from the Norwegian Development Aid Organisation (NORAD) and is a large research programme focusing on the human rights issues of minorities in China, and in particular the tension
http://www.humanrights.uio.no/english/research/programmes/cap/index.xml
Keywords: China, East Asia, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 12, In Focus 2008 Week 29, In Focus 2008 Week 30, In Focus 2008 Week 31, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2008 Week 47, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 05, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Law and legislation, Minority groups, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Research Institute, Social conditions, Social groups,
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General information and news on China. Sections include: Travel, Living in China, Archaeology, Film, Learning Chinese, Chinatown, Suppliers, Business, Government, Education, Environment Culture, Women, Books & Magazines, Sports, Health, Entertainment. Also available in French, German, Japanese, Ru
http://www.china.org.cn/
Keywords: Business. Management, China, Culture, East Asia, Economic issues, Education, Environment, Geography, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, In Focus 2009 Week 38, In Focus 2009 Week 39, News. Media, Politics and society, Travel, Women and gender studies,
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The recent Urumqi and Lhasa riots have shattered the myth of a monolithic China, writes China and Uighur expert Professor Dru Gladney in recent article on BBC news.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8141867.stm
Keywords: China, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Asia, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic groups, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Population, Social conditions, Xinjiang,
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Eith latest news, East Turkestan history, human rights, archives and music, Uighur organization, etic report and more.
http://www.uygur.org/
Keywords: China, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Asia, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic groups, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Population, Social conditions, Xinjiang,
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BBC News background material on the situation of the Uighurs in China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7540636.stm
Keywords: China, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Asia, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic groups, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Population, Social conditions, Xinjiang,
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Self-description: "The Uyghur Human rights Project (UHRP) was founded by the Uyghur American Association (UAA) in 2004 with a supporting grant from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). UHRP's mission is to promote human rights and democracy for the Uyghur people, and to raise awareness of hum
http://www.uhrp.org/
Keywords: China, East Asia, Ethnic groups, Human rights, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Population, Social conditions, Xinjiang,
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Self-description: "The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organization that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkestan and abroad. WUC was established on April 16, 2004 in Munich Germany after the East Turkestan National Congress and the World Uyghur
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/home.asphttp://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/home.a...
Keywords: China, Conflicts. Terrorism, East Asia, Ethnic conflict, Ethnic groups, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Population, Social conditions, Xinjiang,
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Xinjiang : a centre-periphery conflict in displayan analysis of the Chinese state- and nation-building machinery in Xinjiang and the mobilization of Uyghur counter-cultures / Truls Winje. - Oslo : Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, 2007. - 96 p. (Master's thesis) 1.0. Xinjiang: An
http://www.duo.uio.no/publ/statsvitenskap/2007/65150/Oppgaven.pdf
Keywords: China, Cultural identity, Culture, East Asia, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 29, Nationalism, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Politics and society, Publications, Xinjiang,
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