Showing posts with label • Uighurs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label • Uighurs. Show all posts

Saturday, November 29, 2014

• Xinjiang violence: 15 reported killed in attack

China is enforcing a security crackdown in Xinjiang and Uighur activists say that in doing so its is fuelling the violence

Sunday, October 19, 2014

• China's Colonial War - 22 Killed in Farmers' Market Attack in East Turkestan by Shohret Hoshur

by Shohret Hoshur

A map showing Kashgar prefecture's Maralbeshi county in East Turkestan. Four ethnic minority Uyghur men armed with knives and explosives attacked a farmers' market in northwestern China's unrest-plagued East Turkestan this week, leaving 22 people dead, including police officers and the attackers themselves, according to police Saturday.


Thursday, October 9, 2014

• China Has Committed A Tiananmen Square-Scale Massacre This Year — And Totally Covered It Up By ARMIN ROSEN

By ARMIN ROSEN

A local woman on a crutch shouts at Chinese paramilitary police wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region on July 7, 2009.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

• Dozens killed and injured in East Turkestan - AFP

"Uighurs rose up to resist China's extreme ruling policy and were met with armed repression resulting in dead and injured on both sides". -- Dilxat Raxit
Chinese occupation forces in Urumqi, East Turkestan

Thursday, May 22, 2014

• At least 31 killed, 90 injured in attack on market in volatile western China region



May 22, 2014: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, police officers stand guard near a blast site which has been cordoned off, in downtown Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (AP Photo/Cao Zhiheng)

Thursday, March 20, 2014

• Uighur lawyer tortured to death in China



Gulnar Abdulahat's body

A young Uighur lawyer in China's East Turkestan (Xinjiang) province has died from her injuries as a result of torture by the Chinese authorities.
Gulnar Abdulahat was abducted last year after it was found that she had leaked video footage of a trial of one of her clients who was sentenced to death.
The 30-year-old lawyer had complained that her client was not receiving a fair trial, and by leaking the footage to the internet, she managed to publicize the poor treatment towards her client.

• Uighurs - "We are not Chinese"



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"East Turkestan people and Muslims have woken up.
China cannot suppress us any more." -- Abdullah Mansour
Uighur leader: “We have plans for many attacks in China”

by Terrence McCoy - Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Traditionally, the Uighur independentists aren’t the sort to seek attention. Dwelling primarily in the mountains of East Turkestan (Xinjiang), they don’t maintain an active social media presence like the Taliban. They almost never post videos boasting of exploits.

• Uighur leader vows revenge on China by Saud Mehsud


Uighur leader vows revenge on China
by Saud Mehsud and Maria Golovnina

"China is not only our enemy, but it is the enemy of all Muslims." -- Abdullah Mansour
By Saud Mehsud and Maria Golovnina

DERA ISMAIL KHAN/ISLAMABAD -- Entrenched in secret mountain bases on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, Uighur fighters are gearing up for retribution against China to avenge the deaths of comrades in Beijing's crackdown on a separatist movement, their leader told Reuters.

• Turkestan Islamic Party Expresses Support for Kunming Attack by Shannon Tiezz


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Turkestan Islamic Party Expresses Support for Kunming Attack
by Shannon Tiezzi - Thursday, March 20, 2014


In an online video, TIP’s leader praised the deadly attack in Kunming and promised more punishments. In the aftermath of the deadly knife attack in Kunming Railway Station, both local authorities and the central government said that evidence suggested Xinjiang separatists were behind the violence.

Pushing the Uighurs Too Far by WANG LIXIONG


Pushing the Uighurs Too Far
by WANG LIXIONG - Wednesday, March 19, 2014

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The radicalization of the Uighurs’ cause is an inevitable result of Beijing’s continued repression.