East Turkestan Separatism - Islam in Central Asia (sitios de interés)
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The Uyghurs of Xinjiang and various border-cities in Tibet, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have for centuries battled against Chinese control (similar to Tibetan freedom movements). (Source: Reuters article.)
Interestingly, when describing Xinjiang's brief period of independence in the 1930s and 40s, the Chinese government refers to its return to Chinese authority as its "liberation". (Source: China.org.cn, a Chinese government-sponsored information portal.)