The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land - Gardner Bovingdon - Google Books

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For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese government has consistently resisted these efforts, countering with repression…