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Xinjiang: Blogging the XUAR

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 @ 05:14 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

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Topics:: Cyber-Activism

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日本語:	新疆: 新疆ウイグル自治区のブログ情報...

Bboyd informs about two blogs for the western Chinese province, populated by Turk ethnos of Uighurs. It’s difficult to get strictly Xinjiang information from the wealth of news about China in general, and these two citizen journalism sources would be helpful for all those who are interested in the topic.

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Matteo

Hi,
am an italian PHD student, and interested in these two blog, but I can’t find the links.
Where are this two blogs? Are there in english?
Thank you
Matteo

# 2007-11-19 at 16:18 pm

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Adil Nurmakov

Hello Matteo,
I don’t know why this link is not working now. Here are the links:
http://www.thenewdominion.net/
http://china.notspecial.org/

# 2007-11-20 at 5:26 am

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