Why China’s Uighurs are joining jihadists in Afghanistan

Posted By Eli Banghart

Posted 9 years ago

Uighur Muslims, a Turkic-speaking minority in China's northwestern Xinjiang province, have long faced persecution by the country's communist authorities. They are a distinct and mostly Sunni Muslim community and one…

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