Like many ethnic minorities in strategically important regions of China, China’s Uyghurs have been on the losing end of an ethnic power play. The Uyghurs (pronounced “we-gars”) are a Turkic people who constitute 45 per cent of the people of Xinjiang, which has a total estimated population of 24 million.
A “re-education” camp for Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.
The Uyghurs do not speak Chinese as a native language, they speak Turkish. The Tu…
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