Steering girls away from terror
By Hu Yinan and Lei Xiaoxun | China Daily | Updated: 2009-07-30 07:47
Uygur women from Shufu county, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, work at a toy factory in Shaoguan in Guangdong province. Lu Hanxin |
Tukiz Juma was emotionally lost three years ago. She was on the verge of a divorce and she had surrendered custody of her son to her estranged husband. Her life in Bulaksu, one of the most impoverished townships in China's vast, westernmost Xinjiang Ugyur autonomous region, was, she felt, at the start of a long and painful downward spiral.
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