The Crackdown On The Broader Uighur Community Has Become Intense And Unrelenting.

[barryqwalsh]

Most have been intimidated by authorities into compliance and silence. In schools, teaching in Uighur language has been discouraged and is disappearing. Enormous numbers of Han Chinese have been pressed into the province to water down the Uighurs' presence and influence. In some towns, payments are being offered for inter-marriage.

This is one of China's most sensitive issues and as President Xi Jinping's government imposes growing restrictions on the way the media operates, it's an incredibly difficult story to cover.

Video & Transcript
abc.net.au/foreign/content/2014/s4097689.htm

 

[Vikrant]

China is doing in Xinjiang what it did in Tibet. It is the same old tactic of eliminating a race and its culture.

 

[Manonthestreet]

who is doing it to us???