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Title	Kazakhstan: Information from 1992 to present on the Uighur minority
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Kazakhstan
Publication Date	1 May 1997
Citation / Document Symbol	KKT26667.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Kazakhstan: Information from 1992 to present on the Uighur minority, 1 May 1997, KKT26667.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6aab734.html [accessed 30 May 2012]
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Kazakhstan: Information from 1992 to present on the Uighur minority

For information on the Uighur minority in Kazakstan, please consult the second to last paragraph of the first column of page 213 of the Human Rights Watch attachment, the first page of the Time attachment and the Reuters attachments. For additional information on the Uighurs, please consult Response to Information Request KKT22435.F of 7 December 1995. For information on the treatment of ethnic groups in Kazakhstan, without specific references to Uighurs, please consult Responses to Information Requests KKT22174.E of 6 November 1995, KKT22883.E of 15 January 1996 and KKT22882.E of 17 January 1996.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

Attachments

Human Rights Watch (HRW). 1994. Human Rights Watch World Report 1995. New York: Human Rights Watch, pp. 212-213.

Reuters. 28 April 1997. BC Cycle. "Kazakh Police Hold at Least 30 Uighurs - Exile Group." (NEXIS)

_____. 24 February 1997. BC Cycle. Dmitry Solovyov. "Kazakh Uighurs Welcome Freedom in Cold Bleak Town." (NEXIS)

Time. 21 April 1997. "Simmering Discontent; A New Generation of Militant Separatists is Stirring the Flames in China's Remote Xinjiang Province." (NEXIS)

Topics: Uighur,

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