Excerpted from The Leonard Lopate Show:
China's Uighur people are Turkic Muslims from Central Asia, and the Chinese government has a long history of discriminating against them. Uighur separatists have been calling for an independent state since the 1940s. Since 9/11, a rise of Islamic fundamentalism among China's Uighurs has resulted in further religious repression. On today's Underreported, Blaine Kaltman, a sociologist and author of Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China; and Sharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China, join us to talk about the conflicts and mutual suspicion between the Uighurs and China's government.
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China: Minority Exclusion, Marginalization and Rising Tensions - HRIC Statement:
HRIC Condemns Rights Violations and Harsh Sentence in Ablikim Abdureyim’s Case - HRIC Testimony:
The Many Faces of China's Repression: Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and U.S. Diplomacy in China - China Rights Forum No.4 2006:
Ethnic Groups in China - Articles, interviews, HRIC issue briefs, resource list and more focusing on ethnic minorities.
