More Than 140 Dead in Clashes in China's Xinjiang Province - Yahoo! News »
Posted By mpchekuri 4 months ago in NewsChinese authorities announced today that some 140 people had been killed and over 800 wounded in protests that roiled Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang province, on Sunday
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Dionys4 months ago
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Where are all the GOP hawks that scream about going into Iraq and Iran for humanitarian purposes? Shouldn't they be screaming about a totalitarian government oppressing its people through death and violence instead of assuring they remain a most-favored trading partner? Where are all the Democrat peaceniks?
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this violence isn't due to any totalitarian oppression. it is, instead, a consequence of racial and ethnic conflict.
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Alim said the demonstrations were a reaction to a June 26 incident at a factory in Guangdong province, where two Uighur workers were beaten to death by Han Chinese colleagues.
what the article doesn't include is the reason for these killings...
The Han Chinese had attacked the Uighurs following the circulation of a report through the Internet alleging that some Uighur workers had raped two Han Chinese women. According to the Chinese authorities, the report of the rape was found to be false.
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20090...
some other facts to take into account... according to wikipedia, Xinjiang borders the Tibet Autonomous Region and India's Leh District to the south and Qinghai and Gansu provinces to the southeast, Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the west.
tibet, india, mongolia, russia, afghanistan, pakistan, kazakhstan, kygyzstan, tajikistan -- i find it a curious coincidence that almost everything the chinese province of xinjiang borders we have an interest in, not to mention a war and a military base or two. not the least of those "interests" being ..... the caspian basin oil. bear in mind that the report that ignited this conflict... was proven false.
personally, i think we're always looking for the weakness in china's armor. taiwan, racked with the devastating corruption charges of its former pro-american, pro-independence leader and increasingly economically dependent on china just doesn't apply the same leverage of destabilzation as it used to.
besides, looking for an angle for agitation on china's west is more advantageous. we have several bases there, we have war operations there, the governments there, especially the several of the "stans," are more easily bought and corrupted, activities are more easily concealed due largely to a high element of lawlessness and, of course, the oil is there too
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