Sharron Sykes, Uyghurs of Kashgar (TRAVEL 2020)

in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in northwestern China. In the in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in northwestern China, Kashgar was once an important stop on the Silk Road. The province is the ancestral home of 11 million Uyghur people, a Muslim Turkic minority group facing oppression under Chinese rule.

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