How to pronounce“uighurs”in English

Uighurs have actually had their own independent nation, two separate times in the last century.

And Uighurs are also closer culturally to those Turkic groups than they are to the Han Chinese, China’s ethnic majority.

The Uighurs speak a Turkic language.

The Uighurs came to be perceived and painted more as a threat, as a separatist threat, as an extremist threat.

That's where Uighurs are.

We're talking about Uighurs having to hand over their phones at checkpoints.

running detention camps for uighurs insisting instead they are vocational schools for willing students