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Who are the Uighurs?

NBC News' Adrienne Mong explains the discord between ethnic Muslim Uighurs and China's Han majority. VIDEO: Who are the Uighurs...(read more) ...full story at NBC World Blog

from NBC World Blog on Mon, Jul 06 2009

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