Friday, July 17, 2009

US assistance to the Uyghur against China

The Uyghurs, the ethnic minority in the west of China blamed for the recent violence there, receives support from the US. The support is not very large though, but meaningful.
In the US, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) dispenses grants with money appropriated by the US Congress. As the Uyghur rioting simmered on, the NED was revealed to be dispensing more than US$200,000 a year to support the World Uyghur Congress.

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