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I was in China doing research when I saw my Uighur friends disappear

  • Written by Sarah Tynen, Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder
An Uighur woman rests near a barricaded structure and heavily armed Chinese policemen in Urumqi.Ng Han Guan/AP Photo

Recently leakedChinese government documents reveal how local officials targeted Muslim minorities in China. Satellite images show that many of them have been held in detention camps across the vast Uighur homeland in northwest China.

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