Labor Program in China Moves to Scatter Uighurs Across Han Territory
By EDWARD WONG
As violence upends Xinjiang, officials are working to transplant and try to assimilate members of the mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority.
As violence upends Xinjiang, officials are working to transplant and try to assimilate members of the mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority.
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