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Muhammad Amin Bughra
Muhammad Amin Bughra was a Uyghur nationalist leader from Khotan in Xinjiang. In 1933 he led a revolt in southern Xinjiang and helped found the short-lived Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan at Kashgar, which was crushed in 1934. He later worked with the Chinese Nationalist government, serving in the Xinjiang provincial government in the late 1940s, and after the communist victory went into exile in Turkey, where he died.
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