CENTRAL ASIAN UIGHURS PROTEST AGAINST CHINESE REPRESSION IN XINJIANG-UIGHURIA.

China yesterday condemned as interference in its internal affairs a protest rally in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek against the Chinese authorities’ crackdown on Uighur demonstrators in the Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region. Uighurs in Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan, and exiles from Xinjiang in those countries, are discussing forming an Uighuristan movement and have stepped up public protests against the Chinese government’s latest repressive measures in Xinjiang. (See Monitor, February 13)

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