Uighurs reflect on 2009 violence that set off Chinese crackdown
Washington Post, 11 July 2020
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It was 11 years ago that Gulruy Asqer began praying for a chance to escape China.
Asqer, a Uighur poet now living in Memphis, was back then living in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang region of China that is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
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