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The Uyghur boxers of Istanbul

Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala

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Somerjohn's Chicken Throwing

Somerjohn recalls a weager boxer who rose to fame when he was a kid. He would copy his moves in the streets with his friends in the neighborhood. Those carefree chicken throwing days changed when he and his family moved to aromche. The chinese state began a strike hard campaign against the weagers. It was to prevent what they feared would be a weaker separatist movement.

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