China’s Uighurs Uighur unrest in Xinjiang province, which flared up with riots in July, has long posed problems for Beijing. The indigenous Uighurs feel left behind by rapid economic growth while members of China’s dominant Han ethnic group, who flocked there for work, feel unfairly targeted
Human Rights Watch has identified 43 missing Uighurs detained after the riots and said many more members of the Muslim minority might have been taken away
A Chinese court has handed out death sentences to six people for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic rioting in July, in which almost 200 people were killed in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang province
A court in southern China has handed out a death sentence to a man involved in a brawl in July blamed for being the trigger to deadly riots in the restive far western region of Xinjiang
Wang Lequan stood uncontested as the strongman ruling Xinjiang for 15 years. But last week tens of thousands took to the streets demanding the regional Communist party chief’s resignation
The government in Xinjiang has been caught off guard by the anger of its own people from China’s Han ethnic majority in Urumqi, the regional capital, who are calling for Xinjiang’s Communist party secretary, to quit
The Communist party’s claim that the People’s Republic of China is a home where the many minorities prosper happily side by side with their Han majority compatriots has been shaken badly by riots in Xinjiang
China will find the management of its huge land empire increasingly difficult as the native populations grow more and more resentful of income disparities, the favoured treatment accorded to Chinese Han immigrants and the steady destruction of local culture, says Jonathan Fenby
Repressive measures might work for a short time but often fuel radicalism and trigger violent rebellions, writes Minxin Pei
As things stand, activists campaigning for Xinjiang or Tibet look forlorn and defeated. Violent repression of separatism can be very effective for a while. But it risks creating the grievances that keep independence movements alive across the generations, writes Gideon Rachman
Beijing is aware that the autocracy and corruption of the system will not withstand economic and social change, says Philip Stephens
Discrimination and poverty have bred deep-seated anger among the Uighurs, who make up almost half the 20m population of the western province of Xinjiang
