Uighur, Chinese (Pinyin) Weiwu’er, also spelled Uygur or Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia. Uighurs live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, a small number live in the Central Asian republics. There were nearly 9,000,000 Uighurs in China and about 300,000 in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan in the early 21st century.
The Uighur language is part of the Turkic group of Altaic languages, and the Uighurs are among the oldest Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia. They are mentioned in Chinese records from the 3rd century ce. They first rose to prominence in the 8th century, when they established a kingdom along the Orhon River in what is now north-central Mongolia. In 840 this state was overrun by the Kyrgyz, however, and the Uighurs migrated southwestward to the area around the Tien (Tian) Shan (“Celestial Mountains”). There the Uighurs formed another independent kingdom in the Turfan region, but this was overthrown by the expanding Mongols in the 13th century.
The Uighurs are, in the main, a sedentary, village-dwelling people who live in the network of oases formed in the valleys and lower slopes of the Tien Shan, Pamirs, and related mountain systems. The region is one of the most arid in the world; hence, for centuries they have practiced irrigation to conserve their water supply for agriculture. Their principal food crops are wheat, corn (maize), kaoliang (a form of sorghum), and melons. The chief industrial crop is cotton, which has long been grown in the area. Many Uighurs are employed in petroleum extraction, mining, and manufacturing in urban centres.
The chief Uighur cities are Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and Kashgar (Kashi), an ancient centre of trade near the Russian-Chinese border. The Uighurs have lacked political unity in recent centuries, except for a brief period during the 19th century when they were in revolt against Beijing. Their social organization is centred on the village. The Uighurs of Xinjiang are Sunni Muslims.
Large numbers of Han (ethnic Chinese) have moved into Xinjiang, especially since the 1990s. This produced economic disparities and ethnic tensions between the Uighur and Han populations that sometimes resulted in protests and other disturbances. A particularly violent outbreak occurred in July 2009, mainly in Ürümqi, in which scores of people were killed and hundreds more were injured.
( Source : Britannica)
At least four people, including one police after a mob attacked a police station in restive Xinjiang region, China, Monday (7/18) local time.
The attacker apparently came from the Muslim Uighur minority, burning a police station located in the city of Hotan in China's remote northwest, and a number of people hostage. Two of those killed were hostages, a security officer and another policeman, Xinhua said, citing sources in the ministry of public security.
According to that news agency, police shot dead a number of attackers, but no further details, and the situation is under control now.
A spokesman for the World Uighur Congress based in Germany said the clashes erupted after a group of Uighurs tried to bring a number of police to ask them to release their detained family members.
The clash was finally happening. The police then opened fire. Three-dozen people were arrested by the police, and one person was seriously injured.
The capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi, became the center of China's worst riots in decades on July 5, 2009. The unrest at the time claimed nearly 200 lives and injured approximately 1,700 people.
The violence experienced by Uighurs have caused a wave of protest marches in various world cities such as Ankara, Berlin, Canberra and Istanbul.
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Due to the upcoming first anniversary of the events of 5 July 2009 in Urumqi, the regional capital of East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China), when peaceful demonstrations of Uyghur people against government inaction on the killing of at least two Uyghur migrant...
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Jan Pepijn Servaas: Hard to believe that the victims were killed or injured in an aggregate amount of more than 2,000 men, killed or wounded due to only the stone's throw, daggers and clubs ...
Cisca Zarmansyah : Don't you say that Noy's great grandma did it ...
...Jan Pepijn Servaas : ..
hahahha...Ik had er niet aan denken een beetje!,..HAHHAAHAAValentino Vie : Ma chèrie, savez-vous que ma grand-mère avait l'habitude de porter une minijupe et fumer un cigare? elle aimait aussi porter des bottes, ainsi que d'un nœud papillon...ohoh, des je peux je le fais. Tu fais de la musique.....Ouvre les yeux, ...regarde autour de toi, sinon Le jour venu tu mourras dans les rêves inassouvis, inéluctablement. Déjà ton corps ne montre plus signe de vie. Est-ce pour cela que la mort t’importe si peu? tu restes prostré, insensible à mes appels, veux-tu mourir ainsi, sans te ressaisir? Ouvre grand les yeux, regarde autour de toi. Réfléchis à ton futur, longuement. Ne laisse pas fuir cette chance unique, ou tes lendemains ne seront que péril sur péril. Mon coeur t’a pris en pitié, ô mon ouïghour. Mon compagnon, mon frère de race, mon frère de sang. Brûlant d’ardeur pour ta cause, je veux t’éveiller. Mais tu restes sourd, pourquoi? Un jour viendra où tu regretteras. Et le sens de mes paroles t’apparaîtra. Tu pourras crier hélas, il sera trop tard. Tu comprendras alors la sagesse de Uyghur.
Cisca Zarmansyah : La musique a été fusionnée avec la lanterne à la lumière jaune-bleu dans tes yeux, Noy. Je suis juste à rôder la nuit qui n'a pas été passé en matinée. Lune Lune en forme de disque toujours suspendus dans un ciel bleu foncé.
Valentino Vie
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Valentino Vie : If one reads current press reports and academic analyses on Latin America, the prevailing opinion seems to be that the left is making a comeback.... http://hir.harvard.edu/academy-and-policy/more-than-ideology
Adriaan Zef : The progress of China's relation with Iran and Latin America makes Washington should create the new approaches, it could no longer stay away from the country leaders such as Venezuela and Bolivia. It mightn't run with leaders like Chavez who have different views about economics, politics and "many more", but well,... worth a try.
, ...Obama has said that he wanted to "restore" relations with the communist government in Cuba, and he lifted the ban on Cuban-Americans that allowed them go freely to Cuba and sending money to their relatives. But the US trade embargo imposed on Cuba (after Fidel Castro's revolution in 1959) will remain in force. Valentino Vie : Since Hugo Chávez chose China as a partner, many Chinese people lived there, and they were quite successful... http://www.globalenvision.org/library/3/1020.... and you, honey, please, I don't want to talk about other things that we don't like. Maybe I exaggerated, but based on instinct, I feel that you'd throw all big pillows at me, each time a gentle breeze blowing us toward the talks. I've no other purpose than to respond this man.
Adriaan Zef : My colleague also had lived there, he's a descendant of Chinese, Dutch and Arabic. Yeah,... he also has a girlfriend come from Venezuela, but he prefered to marry a Chinese and now living in France.
Valentino Vie : Did you know that there also exist a Chinese shop? It sold the household tools, seemed very crowded. No? too bad. Yeah... the shelves in the store was filled to the ceiling. The goods were placed on the floor still in the box. The box said "Made in China". The shop was owned by Senora Chang and her husband. She was born in China, came to Venezuela sixty years ago and met her soul mate of Chinese descent. She bought the products in her shop from a wholesaler who imported the Chinese goods. The wholesaler was also a Chinese.
Senora Chang was fluent in Spanish and easily to switch into Chinese, especially when she ordered her maid. She also had a lot of friends in Venezuela. But she didn't like him, because his skin color was too dark. She prefered a little more white. Haha.
Bonjour, mon amour. Ça va? Bonne nuit. Grosses bises pour tes reves. Tu nous fais la parfaite petite famille.
Young Uyghur woman
A Uyghur naan baker
Uyghur man
Three Uyghur girls at a Sunday market in Khotan
Uyghur people at Sunday market, Khotan
Tool sharpeners at the market, Khotan
Silk spinning, Khotan
Silk weaving, Khotan
Uyghur camel drivers in Xinjiang
An Uyghur mosque in Khotan.
Young Uyghur woman with donkey cart, Melikawat
In the Taklamakan desert
Wall painting at Bezeklik caves in Flaming Mountains, Turpan Depression.
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