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Young boy at a bookseller's
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Life Under the Crackdown

A Uighur boy at an outdoor bookstand. The use of the Uighur language for instruction is now outlawed at Universities, and local-language materials face fierce scrutiny from government censors. The pressure-cooker environment of Xinjiang today may spawn real extremism in the future
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