Meet the Uighurs - Laura Ling's interview with China's western dissidents
The Supreme Court voted today to hear the appeal of 14 Chinese Uighurs being held in captivity at Guantanamo Bay. The Uighurs, Chinese Muslims, were found five years ago to be innocent of being "enemy combatants", but remain in custody. One of the reasons releasing them is tricky is that they don't really want to go back to their native country of China.
Why don't the Uighurs want to go home? China considers them to be dissidents, intent on separating Uighur areas like the Xinjiang Province from China. Laura Ling spoke to a few Uighurs living in exile in "China's Wild West". This is an excerpt from that show.
Vanguard on China's Uighurs (Video)
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