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Nearly a year after the worst riots in China's far west in more than a decade, his story and that of another asylum seeker interviewed by The Associated Press are among the few accounts to emerge of how some Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) got out amid a government crackdown.

AP Report: Uighurs Flee China After Riots 2010

Pronounced "Wee-gurs", yes the same Uyghurs you have seen in the news over the last few months shackled in communist oppression and victims of genocide committed by the Chinese government.

Kenneth Kales: Consequences For Our Actions 2009

Anyway, the five Chinamen now stranded in Tirana are members of another persecuted minority: the Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) of China's far-western Xinjaing Province, which they call East Turkestan.

James Heffernan: The War Against Terrorism Has Become a War Against Ourselves 2008

The Uighurs (pronounced "wee-gurs"), whose people are from western China, were one such minority.

The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

Babylonian Iddin-Nebo had “taken, with his bow,” was sold by him for 2 manehs or 120 shekels, a bond for 240 _gurs_ of dates being handed over to him as security for the payment of the sum.

Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

“Fifty _gur_ for the 50 workmen, 10 _gur_ for 10 shield-bearers, 2 _gur_ for the overseer, 1 _gur_ for the chief overseer; in all, 63 _gurs_ of dates.”

Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs 1889

Chinese authorities have been accused of alienating the Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs), who are ethnically and linguistically distinct from China's majority Han, with tight restrictions on cultural and religious expression and nonviolent dissent.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Nearly a year after the worst riots in China's far west in more than a decade, his story and that of another asylum seeker interviewed by the Associated Press are among the few accounts to emerge of how some Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) got out amid a government crackdown.

The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2010

There is little dispute about how the Uighurs (pronounced "wee-gurs") ended up at Guantánamo.

FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles 2009

The four Chinese Muslims, called Uighurs (WEE-gurs), were resettled in Bermuda on Thursday.

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