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The Figaro Letter of July 29, 2020

2020-07-29T05:07:14.399Z


On the menu of the day: Uighurs at the heart of international concerns, the sluggish first steps of Dupond-Moretti and the final painting by Van Gogh reveals his secret.


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In the Xinjiang region, a province in the far west of China, the horror. Under the guise of fighting against "terrorism" and "separatism", the second world power locks up and martyrs hundreds of thousands (at least) of Uighurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group. Until recently, no one was moved by it, but Europe and the United States are coming out of the woods: China is now singled out. To the accusations, she answers “nonsense!”.

It has nothing to do with it, but here is the question of the day: Do you approve of the ban on heated terraces?

Have a good Wednesday. We are celebrating the birthday of Alexis de Tocqueville, who is starting to get old (215 years old).

Ronan Planchon, journalist at Le Figaro

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Uighurs: China under international pressure

A re-education camp near Hotan, in May 2019. The policy of control and assimilation of Uighur minorities and Kazakhs in Xinjiang is increasingly repressive. G. BAKER / AFP

For a long time, too long, the “international community” has turned a deaf ear. She turned a blind eye to the plight of the Uighurs in China, where 800,000 to two million Muslims live in hell. In

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