The Chinese government long denied that the camps ... Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are ...

They reached the borders of Chinese Turkestan after a long and rather difficult out journey across four provinces. Fighting on, the Lunghai railway forced them to make a long detour adding a month ...

The name “Xinjiang” means “new frontier,” or “new borderland,” in Chinese. It is “the political name of our country right now,” says Gul, but “our East Turkestan has thousands of ...

but increased Chinese presence in the country is altering the status quo with significant risk for Beijing The Taliban have long provided members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM ...

Former World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa called on the United Nations to take stronger action against China's ongoing repression of Uyghurs during the 58th session of the UN Human Rights ...