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China slams U.S. for sending Uighurs to Palau
Nov 2nd, 2009 - Washington Post
BEIJING (Reuters) - China lashed out at the United States on Monday after the Obama administration sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau.
Supreme Court to Hear Case of Uighur Detainees
Oct 20th, 2009 - FOXNews
The Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will hear arguments from a group of Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for more...
Han Chinese sentenced to death for killing Uighur
Oct 15th, 2009 - Times Online
China has sentenced a Han Chinese to death for the revenge murder of a Muslim Uighur in the aftermath of China's deadliest ethnic violence in decades. Nearly 200 people died and 1,700 were injured in the unrest that erupted on July 5...
Taiwan to bar visit by Uighur activist
Sep 25th, 2009 - kansascity
Taiwan's interior minister said Friday the island will bar a visit by Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, whom Beijing has accused of inciting ethnic violence in China's far west.
After ethnic violence, Han Chinese and Uighurs in restive west struggle to make way forward
Jul 12th, 2009 - StarTribune
URUMQI, China - Incense was lit and paper money burned at the funeral Sunday for a Han Chinese family — a man, his wife and his parents, all killed in last week's ethnic riots...

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Uighur unrest continues in Xinjiang - 07 Jul 09
Violence broke out in up to four neighbourhoods in the western Chinese city of Urumqi on Tuesday, according to witnesses. A group of armed Han Chinese people were seen marching towards an ethnic minority Uighur neighbourhood ...
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Uighur Dilemma - China
August 2009 Ever since the violence between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese, a fear of fanaticism has taken hold. Is the government's decision to demolish the Uighur area Kashgar really due to an earthquake threat? Kashgar is a cultural icon ...
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Arslan "Dada" Uighur Uyghur song
Arslan "Dada" uyghur song east turkestan uighur pop song all the way from sydney Australia, freedom and long live uyghurs
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Arslan "Qog" Uyghur uighur song
Arslan "qog" uighur song uighur east turkestan love song all the way from sydney, Australia. yahxi kurup anglangla.

Uighur from WikiPedia:

The Uyghur Empire (Chinese: ?? / ??) was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. They were a tribal confederation under the Orkhon Uyghur (??) nobility, referred to by the Chinese as the Jiu Xing ("Nine Clans").

A rebellion in 742 against the ruling Göktürk Khaganate by the Uyghur, Karluk, and Basmyl tribes left an immense power vacuum in Mongolia and Central Asia. The Basmyls captured the Göktürk capital Ötügen and their king Özmish Khan in 744, effectively taking charge of the region. However a Uyghur-Karluk alliance against the Basmyls was formed later the same year. The coalition defeated the Basmyls and beheaded their king. The Basmyl tribes were effectively destroyed; their people sold to the Chinese or distributed amongst the victors. The Uyghurs took control of Mongolia, with the Karluk tribes given lands further West. The Uyghur chief Kutluk bilge köl (Glorious, wise, mighty) had himself crowned as the supreme ruler (khagan) of all Altaic tribes and built his capital at Ordu Baliq.