Any final decision on the Uighurs could have implications for the other Guantanamo prisoners.
The Uighurs were captured in Pakistan and turned over to U.S. authorities in 2002.
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The Uighurs' plight is like that of the Tibetans: unfairness is not a side issue.
The Uighurs have never captured the West's attention in the way that Tibet has.
The Uighurs are not America's problem alone -- they were captured during "the good war, " after all.
China repeated its demand for the return of all Chinese detainees hours before Bermuda accepted the Uighurs.
Headed to Palau are the Uighurs, ethnic Chinese Muslims who were picked up in 2002 near Tora Bora.
The Uighurs then turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not decided whether to take the case.
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Unlike the Tibetans, the Uighurs are in a state of insurrection, though their uprising is almost certainly doomed.
Although Tibet has garnered more headlines, the Uighurs probably represent a greater threat to the regime in Beijing.
For both the Uighurs and the Tibetans, economic development has been inseparable from immigration by ethnic-Han Chinese, 92% of China's population.
The Uighurs say that the best jobs are reserved for the settlers.
The Obama administration is considering releasing the Uighurs on U.S. soil, and it has suggested that taxpayers may have to provide them with welfare support.
Meanwhile, for some Han Chinese, the Uighurs seem ungrateful and backward, pampered by the state with preferential policies, such as being allowed to have more children.
The Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims who, like the Tibetans, have spent the last two millennia struggling against the Han Chinese, are already a minority in their own land.
The campaign against her rose to fever pitch last month after nearly 200 people were killed in the fighting between the Uighurs, the Han Chinese and the police.
Nonetheless, the Uighurs in Beijing felt suspicion from their neighbors.
The Uighurs make up nearly half of Xinjiang's 20m population.
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All sides are agreed the Uighurs, who seek independence from China for their Turkic Muslim region, cannot be returned to China because they would face severe punishment or death.
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Those same objections are bedeviling the Administration's efforts to resettle the 250 or so remaining terrorists at Gitmo, nearly all of whom are far more dangerous than the Uighurs.
The Justice Department, in its filing Friday, urged the high court to refuse to review a Circuit Court decision overturning a lower court which had ordered the Uighurs brought to Washington, D.
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According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training.
The Uighurs are everything Tibet and the Tibetans are not: obscure, tricky to pronounce, lacking in a charismatic leader and the practitioners of a religion that is rather out of favour in America these days.
Economic considerations are also coming into play -- it is significant that the initial rape rumors were spread by a Han Chinese angry that he lost his job in the factory where the Uighurs were working.
In October, a federal judge ordered the 17 Uighurs released inside the United States because they are no longer considered "enemy combatants, " and no other country is willing to take them.
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For the first time in years, Uighurs from the west of China, the traditional money-changers, have reappeared on the streets of Beijing, and people are eager to buy dollars from them.
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