日: 2021-02-22

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‘Nobody wants this job now’: the gentle leaders of China’s Uighur exiles – in pictures

Fleeing to Kyrgyzstan in the 1960s, communities established mosques and villages but the local leaders, or dzhigit-beshchis, are a dying breedDzhigit-beshchi is the name Uighur people in Kyrgyzstan give to the leader they elect for their mahallah – or …

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