Kyrgyzstan troops kill Uighur militants near Chinese border

Originally published on January 24, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special forces in Kyrgyzstan say they have killed 11 members of a criminal group that they believe entered the country from China. The eleven individuals are believed to be ethnic Uighur militants based in China’s Xinjiang region, where tensions between the Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese immigrants have flared into violent clashes over recent years. The 11 were kille