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Militant Uighur Separatists
The 8 million Uighers are a Turkic Muslim ethnic group mostly living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, which was set up in the 1950s and constitutes a 6th of China's landmass. A look at the roots of the separatist movement and why there are currently tensions in the area.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project