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Kazakh authorities have refused to grant citizenship to a trio of ethnic Kazakhs who fled China’s Xinjiang province at the height of the internment campaign, according to an RFE/RL report.
Qaisha Aqan, Murager Alimuly, and Kaster Musakhanuly are three of a handful of ethnic Kazakhs who fled Xinjiang in 2018 and 2019 only to be caught up in an awkward vortex of domestic politics, international pressures, and the legacies of ethnicity and nationalism in Kazakhstan.
When Kazakhstan became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it had the unique position of being the only Soviet republic in which the namesake ethnicity was not a majority.
Kazakhstan Denies Citizenship To Three Ethnic Kazakhs Who Fled Xinjiang
May 24, 2021 13:34 GMT
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Kazakhstan has officially refused to grant citizenship to three ethnic Kazakhs who fled China s northwestern region of Xinjiang for illegally entering the country as they fled persecution.
Qaisha Aqan, Murager Alimuly, and Kaster Musakhanuly are three of several ethnic Kazakhs from Xinjiang residing in Kazakhstan after they were convicted for illegally crossing the Chinese-Kazakh border in recent years, but later given
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