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A number of Uighurs yesterday said they were prepared to fight the Han again, flashing knives concealed in their pockets.

Uighurs was the name of the ancient ethnic group living in these parts, from which the Turks originated.

again a point debated by Muslim Uighurs who have been rounded up in anti-terror sweeps.

Bush have spent long months trying to find homes for the Uighurs.

As they marched past, shouting they would protect Xinjiang, and crying, Down with the Uighurs, office workers came out toapplaud them.

The Uighurs are a Muslim and ethnic-Turkic people, with a distinct culture and history from the Han Chinese majority.

At least nine Uighurs were killed in the protests which followed in the Xinjiang city.

They dont want people to be asking why Uighurs would be so angry.

The Chinese government has encouraged Han migration to the city and other parts of Xinjiang, fueling resentment among the Uighurs.

Two years ago Uighurs turned on their Han Chinese neighbours in Urumqi, the regional capital, killing close to 200 people, most of them Han.

The Uighurs are mistreated by the Han Chinese in their own country of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan, depending on your opinion.

By the end of the Mission period it became increasingly common to refer to the Turks as Uighurs, their original name.

The cooler headed Uighurs and Han Chinese shake their heads and lament how their once cosmopolitan city is now broken.

Hundreds of locals demonstrated against the decision to admit the men, all Uighurs from western China.

Over the past decade, many prominent Uighurs have been imprisoned or have sought asylum abroad after being accused of terrorism.

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Australian Uighurs are further antagonising China by planning a demonstration outside its Melbourne consulate on Friday afternoon.

Further unrest erupted in September, as rumours that Uighurs were attacking Han with syringes spread through the city.

The Uighurs remain at the prison even though the US military no longer considers them enemy combatants.

But this development model has failed to benefit Uighurs, rural areas and southern Xinjiang.

The Uighurs can't even get loans from banks. How are they going to open businesses?

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Many Uighurs feel economic growth has bypassed them and complain of discrimination and diminished opportunities.

Many Uighurs chafe at Chinese rule in Xinjiang and object to government restrictions on civil liberties and religious practices.

They kept a wary eye on the Uighurs, the biggest local ethnic group, as the main security risk.

Video footage shot on a mobile phone and posted online shows a savage one-sided assault on Uighurs being severely beaten .

Many are reported to be ethnic Han Chinese, but there are Uighurs too and others from another Muslim ethnic group, the Hui.

A quietly spoken young Uighur woman in Shanxi Lane confirms she saw her fellow Uighurs slaughtering Han people outside her window.

White House officials say he will discuss China's treatment of Tibetans, Muslim Uighurs and other issues in private meetings.

He angrily demanded Immigration and Customs officials not even consider arresting the Uighurs upon arrival.

"We need to live together, " says Mr Guo, pointing to the fact that a dozen of his 80 employees are Uighurs.

Nine Uighurs have been sentenced to death over the fatal riots.

The Uighurs feared they would be tortured or executed on their return to China.

Some, including a group of 13 Chinese Uighurs, cannot be sent home for fear of ill-treatment there.

Ethnic Uighurs from western Xinjiang province have long chafed at Chinese rule, and many have fled to Central Asian states.

Xinjiang, in the far west of China, is home to about eight million Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence.

The Uighurs fled Afghanistan shortly after the U. S. -led bombing campaign began in 2001.

Now calm is being restored. People of all ethnic groups including the Uighurs are firmly against violence and long to resume normal life.

Many Han Chinese say the Uighurs, like China's 55 other ethnic minorities, actually enjoy generous advantages under government policies.

Uighurs terrorists also hate and killed other Muslim people, as long as they are not of Uighur ethnic group.

Them and the Tarim Basin residents in long-term interest-bearing gradually developed into modern Uighurs in the region.

In these schools, many Uighurs say religious studies and Uighur culture are given less attention.

China says 22 ethnic Uighurs seeking asylum with the United Nations in Cambodia are involved in crimes.

Two policemen were killed yesterday in a clash with armed Uighurs.

Western China has been an area of frequent unrest by ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs who chafe at Chinese Communist Party rule.

She had 6 children, which confirms that Uighurs were not subject to China's One Child Policy.

The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking Chinese Muslim minority.

After attacks by Uighurs on Han Chinese, some Han Chinese armed themselves and sought revenge.

For most Uighurs that means a stark choice: You either become Chinese or you become marginalized.

Xinjiang was originally dominated by Uighurs, a Turkic, mainly Muslim group.

This week, clashes in Xinjiang between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese have left at least 156 dead and more than 1, 000 wounded.

He says he personally saw a large number of Uighurs felled by gunfire from Chinese police early in the night.

Beijing, after all, played from the same rulebook in July 2009 after riots broke out between ethnic Han Chinese and Uighurs in Xinjiang.

Uighurs with disciplinary problems or criminal offenses are treated leniently , they say.

Support for Tibetans and Uighurs under the banner of "human rights" is seen as another Western "divide and rule" strategy.

Two days after the first rioting, vigilante groups of ethnic Han took to the streets and attacked Uighurs.

Now that the Uighurs are here they should stay, but the way the decision was done needs protested.

We don't know who they are, but probably suspected Uighurs responsible for the riots in Urumqi.

Locals say Uighurs are sometimes given low-level jobs in the oil fields , but there are none in management positions in Korla .

We shouldn't be surprised that the Uighurs are making trouble. Even many Han are dissatisfied.

At that time Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic people with stronger links to central Asia than the rest of China, were the only inhabitants.

Uighurs make up almost half of the resource-rich region's population of 22 million.

By now I realize local Uighurs are not unfriendly towards Hans.

The Uighurs make up just under half the population of Xinjiang.

Some Uighurs -- seeking independence from China -- have waged sporadic and at-times violent campaigns against the government.

But on issues that go to the heart of Uighur identity, the government takes a strict line, many Uighurs say.

About 200, 000 people, almost all Uighurs, are being relocated to bland, modern apartment buildings in the suburbs.

the Uighurs claimed most of the victims as their own.

Han Chinese settlement is creating social tensions and Uighurs react in whatever ways they can, even pursuing violence.

Most of the Uighurs fled China after the July 5-7, 2009, protests in Urumqi, and arrived in Cambodia in late October and early November.

An hour later, around 6pm military forces started to show up and they used machine guns to shoot randomly at Uighurs on the street.

About a half-million Uighurs live in the region, many of them immigrants from Xinjiang to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

This is clear in the attitude of the Han Chinese towards the Tibetans and the Uighurs.

For China, it is about the Uighurs of Xinjiang province.

It doesn't apply to many ethnic minorities, such as Tibetans and Uighurs, though some have been forced into it.

The Bush administration hopes to block the judge's order to free the 17 Uighurs, who were detained in Pakistan almost seven years ago.

In China, by contrast, tensions with ethnic Tibetans and Uighurs are worsening.

"Here, everyone has a job, and Han [China's dominant ethnic group] and Uighurs are working side by side, " Tursunjay, a Uighur worker, says.

Violence broke out last week in China's western province of Xinjiangbetween local Uighurs and Han Chinese.

My impression is that most Uighurs dislike Hans and CCP.

'Both Uighurs and Hans know that only united can we have a prosperous future, ' Mr. Tian said.

The region's population of 20m includes some 8. 3m Uighurs.

But he didn't mention hot-button human-rights issues such as Tibet or the Muslim Uighurs.

Sunday's protests were sparked by the deaths of two Uighurs in clashes with Han Chinese at a toy factory near Hong Kong late last month.

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