A young ethnic Uighur girl watches the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on a big screen in the main square in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region on August 8, 2008. Chinese authorities announced stepped up controls on religious figures and potential 'trouble-makers' in the Muslim city of Kashgar to guard against attacks on the Beijing Olympics. By Peter Parks/AFP/Getty.