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Rebiya Kadeer: The Uighur Dalai Lama

Falsely imprisoned, this human rights activist is fighting the Chinese government’s right to rule her people.

By Jehangir Pocha

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 States, Kadeer and her cause remain relatively unknown. Like the Dalai Lama, Kadeer is… return to article

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    I just wonder how a reporter can make such a clear mistake about the background knowledge of Uyghur people. They are by no means Turkic-Persian. They are only Turkic. I hope nutural reporter’s discard this type of ultranationalistic Pan-Iranistic views in their reports.

    Italy Posted by kuresh on Jan 24, 2007 at 9:03 AM
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