Rebiya Kadeer has been likened to the Dalai Lama, and the comparison grew more apt when the Uighur (pronounced wee-gur) human rights activist became a close contender for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, an award conferred on the Dalai Lama in 1989. Yet in the United [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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