From Toronto Star:
As Chinese troops have been fanning out across Tibetan regions inside China in an attempt to quell spreading anti-government riots, another restive group has also come under intense police scrutiny in the country’s northwest.
The Uighurs of Xinjiang province – a largely Muslim ethnic minority of Turkic descent that has long inhabited the Central Asia region – have felt the strong arm of a stepped-up police presence since the Tibetan protests began two weeks ago.
“Because of what’s going on in Tibet, the government has stepped up its security measures to make sure no Uighur would stand up against it,” says Rebiya Kadeer, president of the German-based World Uighur Congress, in a phone interview via an interpreter.
Read also Xinjiang: China’s ‘other Tibet’ by Lydia Wilson.
