Chinese study reveals Uighur ‘assimilation’ goal
BBC News China’s policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to new jobs is leading to a thinning out of their populations, according […]
Uzbekistan students stage rare protest against forced labour in cotton fields
theguardian: by Joanna Lillis — Around a million Uzbeks are forced to help harvest the country’s ‘white gold’ every year. Now, students have tentatively begun to speak out against it.EurasiaNet.org reports Public servants are drafted in every year to help harvest the country’s crucial cotton crops. Uzbekistan’s practice of sending forced […]