04/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - A few days away from the beginning of the Peking Olympic Games, Bernt Posselt MEP (CSU) declared that the rights of the Uighurs, a Turkish-speaking and Muslim people in the region of Xinjiang, north-west China, should not be forgotten. In a press release published on 4 August, Posselt denounced the mass persecution of the Uighur people, who he said had been brutally oppressed and threatened with extinction. Mr Posselt angrily declared that, “When Mr Rogge...