Since the 1950s, hundreds of Uyghurs have fled from China to Afghanistan to escape the political and religious persecution under the Chinese government. They are a Turkish Muslim minority group, and about 12 million live in the Northwestern Xinjiang province known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Afghanistan Uyghurs are immigrants whose parents fled China. […]
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