Current Tensions in Xinjiang-China
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Very short story of what happened before:
This street demonstration seems to be triggered by a vindictive assult against a group of uighur citizens accomplished by a group of han-chinese workers near a toy factory of the region.
Six uighur youth were accused by some han-chinese workers of having harassed and raped 2 ethnic han girl, but the local police didn't found any evidence of rape crime, so no action had been taken against those youth.
Now, here comes the tragedy... Some idiots among those chinese workers thought that they can make justice by themself so they organised a massive(~100) vindictive assult armed with iron rods where 2 young uighur were killed and over a hundred wounded.
26/06/2009.
06/07/2009
Two weeks are passed, I've not followed the facts in the meantime, but I can presume that the police has not been able to identify the killers of those 2 uighur youth; so no death sentence has been made against any han workers. Otherwise a so violent retaliation would not be justified.
In the end, I think the above mentioned event is not the cause but only the trigger of the riots.
Let's wait for more updates.
This street demonstration seems to be triggered by a vindictive assult against a group of uighur citizens accomplished by a group of han-chinese workers near a toy factory of the region.
Six uighur youth were accused by some han-chinese workers of having harassed and raped 2 ethnic han girl, but the local police didn't found any evidence of rape crime, so no action had been taken against those youth.
Now, here comes the tragedy... Some idiots among those chinese workers thought that they can make justice by themself so they organised a massive(~100) vindictive assult armed with iron rods where 2 young uighur were killed and over a hundred wounded.
26/06/2009.
06/07/2009
Two weeks are passed, I've not followed the facts in the meantime, but I can presume that the police has not been able to identify the killers of those 2 uighur youth; so no death sentence has been made against any han workers. Otherwise a so violent retaliation would not be justified.
In the end, I think the above mentioned event is not the cause but only the trigger of the riots.
Let's wait for more updates.
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What are you talking about dude?We should support China.Next time you will say We love our Balochistan and it should be Independent.East Turkistan will always remain under China
.People like you should take up guns and fight for your muslims brothers instead of blabbing here.We only have few friends and China is one of them..you want Pakistan to be a Banana Republic.
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URUMQI: China said on Monday at least 140 people were killed in rioting by Muslim Uighurs in its restive Xinjiang region in the deadliest ethnic unrest reported in the country for decades.
The violence in the regional capital Urumqi on Sunday involved thousands of people, and the official Xinhua news agency said the death toll was likely to rise.
More than 800 other people were injured in the rampage, it added.
Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140, still climbing, Xinhua reported in its latest dispatch, after initially saying only three had died.
The news agency, citing local government officials, said several hundred people had already been arrested for involvement in the violence.
Dramatic footage broadcast by the state-run CCTV network showed men turning over a police car and smashing its windows, a woman being kicked as she lay on the ground, and buses and other vehicles aflame.
All shop owners in the street are very scared, one Han Chinese bar owner told AFP, asking not to be named.
She estimated there were around 3,000 Uighur protesters, some of whom were armed with wooden batons and knives.
The Xinjiang regional government blamed Rebiya Kadeer, the Uighurs leader who is living in exile in the United States, for orchestrating the unrest.
An initial investigation showed the violence was masterminded by the separatist World Uighur Congress led by Rebiya Kadeer, the government said in a statement, according to Xinhua.
However Uighur exiles, who have long chafed at Chinese rule in Xinjiang, accused Chinese security forces of over-reacting in quelling peaceful protests by thousands of people, and said police had fired indiscriminately.
Riot police and other security forces armed with machine guns and carrying shields were seen in Urumqi on Monday, preventing further protests, according to an AFP reporter here.
Truckloads of German Shepherd police dogs were also brought into Urumqi and large swathes of the Muslim quarter of the city were sealed off, the reporter said.
The Uighurs attacked motorists with rocks, said a Chinese woman who saw the riots unfold from the 11th floor of a local hospital.
They just attacked the Han people, she said. At least 10 buses were set on fire and some private cars were overturned. I saw many people were lying on the ground and bleeding. A male student was dead.
The unrest echoed deadly violence in Buddhist Tibet in March last year when Tibetans stormed through the streets of the regions capital, Lhasa, attacking Han Chinese in frustration at what they claimed was repressive Chinese rule.
Many of Xinjiangs roughly eight million Uighurs similarly say they have suffered political, cultural and religious persecution.
As in Tibet, they also complain about Han Chinese moving into Xinjiang and dominating economic and political life.
Alim Seytoff, general secretary of the Uighur American Association, laid the blame for the violence on Chinese authorities.
Seytoff said Uighur students were seeking the arrest of suspects behind an ethnically charged brawl late last month at a factory in southern China that left two Uighurs dead.
These young Uighurs peacefully took to the streets but more than 1,000 armed Chinese police came out, Seytoff told AFP in Washington.
What we were told is that they began to shoot indiscriminately.
Xinjiang is a rugged region of vast deserts and mountains that borders central Asia, and the Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking people who have closer cultural links to their regional neighbours than the Han Chinese.
This year marks 60 years since communist Chinese troops entered Xinjiang and peacefully liberated the region. Advocates of independence for the area have maintained the move was an invasion.
A resident in Kashgar, Xinjiangs famed Old Silk Road city that has also seen deadly ethnic tensions recently, told AFP by phone that extra police had been deployed on the streets there following the Urumqi violence.
The security police and armed police started patrolling last night with guns, said the resident in central Kashgar, who declined to be named.
china have no any anti-muslim policy! and give more right to the muslim than the hang chinese! when i a see so many countryman were attacked and killed by musilim, i was so so so so angry, i cant help to stop my tears. why ! 140 hang chinese were dead, more than 800was badly wood! why , !!
Rubiya Kadeer And The Chinese Riot Connection
July 6th, 2009 - 6:48 pm ICT by GD ::
Communal riots does not happen much in China but recently the nation is bearing witness to a huge communal riot. It has been reported that around 80 people have been injured and hundreds arrested in the north western city of Urumqi. The communal riot has been caused as a result of the protest held on the issue of racial discrimination. The state news agency Xinhua has reported that apart from the 800 injured, the roit has also claimed the lives of 140 people. The name that is linked to the riot is Rubiya Kadeer, who is a popular political activist from the north west region of Xinjiang besides being a prominent Uyghur businesswoman. She is in news due to her leadership of the separatist group called the World Uyghur congress.
According to sources it has been said that the initial investigation indicates Rubiya Kadeer’s group as the master mind behind the violent riot. It has been found out that the Uyghur community has been instigated for an unrest using the internet and other means. Rubiya Kadeer has allegedly appealed to the rioters “to be braver” and “to do something big.”
Last week she has been quoted saying,”Uighurs have suffered for years under racial profiling and unjust government policies that have painted the entire Uighur population as criminals and terrorists.”
The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority community in China who have been fighting against the Hans Chinese (who have been dominating their community in the Xinjiang region). Rubiya Kadeer has been fighting for this community for long and have sought of the U.S. Government’s help to make the Chinese Government amend its suppressive policies against this community.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/rubiya-kadeer-and-the-chinese-riot-connection_100214251.html
July 6th, 2009 - 6:48 pm ICT by GD ::
Communal riots does not happen much in China but recently the nation is bearing witness to a huge communal riot. It has been reported that around 80 people have been injured and hundreds arrested in the north western city of Urumqi. The communal riot has been caused as a result of the protest held on the issue of racial discrimination. The state news agency Xinhua has reported that apart from the 800 injured, the roit has also claimed the lives of 140 people. The name that is linked to the riot is Rubiya Kadeer, who is a popular political activist from the north west region of Xinjiang besides being a prominent Uyghur businesswoman. She is in news due to her leadership of the separatist group called the World Uyghur congress.
According to sources it has been said that the initial investigation indicates Rubiya Kadeer’s group as the master mind behind the violent riot. It has been found out that the Uyghur community has been instigated for an unrest using the internet and other means. Rubiya Kadeer has allegedly appealed to the rioters “to be braver” and “to do something big.”
Last week she has been quoted saying,”Uighurs have suffered for years under racial profiling and unjust government policies that have painted the entire Uighur population as criminals and terrorists.”
The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority community in China who have been fighting against the Hans Chinese (who have been dominating their community in the Xinjiang region). Rubiya Kadeer has been fighting for this community for long and have sought of the U.S. Government’s help to make the Chinese Government amend its suppressive policies against this community.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/rubiya-kadeer-and-the-chinese-riot-connection_100214251.html
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Scores killed in China protests
Too bad you do not think about India the same way.
Now tell me how is this incident any different from Godhra?
Kashmir is India's Internal issue and India will solve it
Anyway
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and you thought we would reply to your flame baits with more insulting comments?......no sorry, thank you
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Aimarraul,
Please check your PM and stop the inflammatory and derogatory posts.
You are only making a fool of yourself - if you wish to respond to the arguments made here then do so rationally and with civility
Please check your PM and stop the inflammatory and derogatory posts.
You are only making a fool of yourself - if you wish to respond to the arguments made here then do so rationally and with civility
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