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Distributed by ChinaAid, February, 2018 ...
YILI, XINJIANG, CHINA – In a continuing wave of persecution against Muslim minorities in China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, members of the Uyghur and Kazakh minorities are being ordered to destroy any graves which bear the symbol of the Islamic star and crescent.
The Uyghurs and Kazakhs are two of China’s 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, both predominantly Muslim. The star and crescent symbol is often used on the graves of Muslims, in much the same way that Christian Protestants and Catholics use the symbol of the cross ...
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