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For Them, Afghanistan Is Safer Than China

2nd November, 2018 · admin

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Foreign Policy: Afghanistan’s borderlands have long been a refuge for ethnic minorities fleeing persecution in China. In the 18th century, when the Qing empire conquered Xinjiang, Uighurs who rebelled against Qing rule escaped to Badakhshan. Today, China’s campaigns and restrictions against the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group in the western region of Xinjiang, have spurred an exodus into Afghanistan, especially after Beijing and the local authorities intensified their crackdown on Uighur freedoms, religion, and culture. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in China-Afghanistan Relations, Human Rights | Tags: War on Islam |
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