For years, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's arid
northwest has been the setting of clashes with the central government and ethnic
violence between Muslim Uyghurs and Han Chinese. In fact, critics say the
government has used anti-terrorism legislation and other means to justify major
violations of the human rights of Uyghur people, a Turkic-speaking minority
group.
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