Afghanistan’s Uyghurs fear the Taliban, and now China too

August 27, 2021

Earlier this week, as the dust began to settle on the Taliban’s blistering takeover of Afghanistan, a small group gathered at a house in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The guests arrived discreetly, in ones and twos, keen to avoid attention.

They were elders from the city’s Uyghur community, plus some family members and others who joined from different cities via Skype. The mood in the house was fearful. There was only one topic of conversation: escape.

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