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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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the germans have openly admitted intelligence involvement in the region and their funding and support of uyghur separatists. the cia is also playing its usual role
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Erkin Alptekin, a Uyghur living in exile, is one of the main players and he has CIA links.
Erkin Alptekin moved to Munich in 1971, where he became "Senior Policy Advisor" to the director of the US station "Radio Liberty".
It was at that time that the CIA began to establish contacts to Uyghurs seeking secession.
"Some, like Erkin Alptekin, who have worked for the CIA's Radio Liberty, are - in the meantime - on the forefront of the secessionist movement" writes analyst B. Raman, the former Indian government's cabinet secretary.
In Munich, Alptekin founded the "East Turkestan Union in Europe" in 1991; and in April 2004 he founded the "World Uyghur Congress" and became its founding president.
'From German territory, the congress is steering numerous Uyghur exile organizations around the world, of which some must be classified as being in the terrorist milieu, according to Chinese government information.'
The Munich based exile movement seeks to merge the Uyghur secessionist movement with the Tibetan and the Mongolian movements.
It seeks to break up China.
In 1985, former CIA advisor Alptekin participated in the foundation of the "Allied Committee of the Peoples of East Turkestan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia".
Rebiya Kadeer is continuing Alptekin's activities - and is also receiving German-US American support.
Her husband works for Radio Free Asia, the Asian counterpart to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, also said to have close links to the CIA.
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/07/cia-and-riot...
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