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ALMATY (Reuters) - His voice echoing inside a small blue-domed mosque, Mukhametzhar-haji speaks angrily about what he describes as China's brutality against his fellow Uighur Muslims in the riot-hit region of Xinjiang.

"Here in Kazakhstan everyone was furious when we heard about the murder of our people there," he said, stroking his white beard as he sat barefoot on the carpeted floor of the mosque.

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