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What motivated Chinese-born Uyghers to fight in Syria's civil war

NPR 1 min read 9 hours ago

Thousands of Chinese-born Uyghur fighters fled China to fight in the Syrian civil war. They say generations of political persecution in China motivated them to take up arms.
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