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The razor wire that once ringed public buildings in China’s far northwestern Xinjiang region is nearly all gone.
Gone, too, are the middle-school uniforms in military camouflage and the armored personnel carriers rumbling around the homeland of the Uighurs. Gone are many of the surveillance cameras that once glared down like birds from overhead poles, and the eerie eternal wail of sirens in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.
Uighur teenage boys, once a rare sight, now flirt with girls over pounding dance music at rollerblading rinks. One taxi driver blasted Shakira as she raced through the streets.
Four years after Beijing
Uyghur activists abroad accuse the Chinese government of genocide, pointing to plunging birthrates and the mass detentions. The authorities say their goal is not to eliminate Uyghurs but to integrate them, and that harsh measures are necessary to curb extremism.
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