French Uighurs urge end to ‘genocide’
.Several dozen Uighurs and their supporters in France took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to urge the world to put pressure on China to end what they called “genocide” in Xinjiang. .
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“The international community must intervene to put pressure on China and stop the Chinese authorities’ policy of repression,” said Yusufu Akbar, president of the Uighur association in France, through a translator. This massacre has to stop. Since 1949, China has undertaken a policy of genocide against Uighurs.
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Xinjiang, the remote north-west corner of China and homeland of the Muslim and Turkic-speaking Uighurs, burst into global prominence when riots in its capital Urumqi on July 5 left 197 dead, according to an official toll