The long and unhappy odyssey of the Guantanamo Uighurs, from China’s Xinjiang Province to Cuba via Afghanistan, is apparently about to end in a remote archipelago some call a Pacific island Paradise.
The government of Palau, a nation of 20,000 people about two and a half times the size of Washington DC, announced it will accept up to 17 Ethnic Uighur detainees following a request from the United States.
Palau is better known for its coral reefs and lake full of gently pulsating jellyfish than as a power player in international politics.
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