Forty Tajik soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Militants are said to be infiltrating back into Tajikistan from Afghanistan.
A top US sportswear company announced that it has dropped a Chinese supplier over concerns that its products were made by forced labor in detention camps in Xinjiang. Reports have mounted that the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Uighurs believed to be held in a fast-expanding system of detention camps are being put to forced labor for Chinese commercial interests. An Associated Press investigation tracked recent shipments from one such detention-camp factory, run by privately-owned Hetian Taida Apparel, to Badger Sportswear of North Carolina. After long denying that the camps exist, Chinese authorities now say they are "vocational training centers" aimed at reducing "extremism." (Photo via Bitter Winter)
Four people were detained for an attack on Chinese military police in the far western region of Xinjiang. Six police were killed and 15 injured in the first major terrorist attack in China since 2008.
Selig Harrison writes in the New York Times that China's People's Liberation Army has taken effective control of the northern Himalayan enclaves of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
China has jailed three Uighur website operators as it clamps down on dissent a year after deadly ethnic riots in Xinjiang, according to the Uyghur American Association (UAA).
Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup was sentenced to five years in prison by a Chinese court, found guilty of inciting separatism by posting a pro-Dalai Lama article on his website.
Eyewitness accounts confirm that Chinese security forces acted with deliberate brutality in the wave of Tibetan protests that began on March 10, 2008, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.
Amnesty International urged China to launch an independent investigation into last year’s riots in Xinjiang, saying new testimony casts further doubt on the official version of events.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization, an alliance of former Soviet republics led by Russia, held an emergency meeting in Moscow to consider intervention in conflicted Kyrgyzstan.
At least 23 people have been killed and more than 300 injured in clashes in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbek residents.
At least five protesters were injured as thousands of Tibetan villagers in Markham County marched in protest of planned mining operations on a mountain they consider sacred.
Many see an effort to restore ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev behind the outburst of Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic violence that has led to a state of emergency in southern Kyrgyztsan.
