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Dude, has your illiteracy impaired your reading capability so much?
This is about terrorists hijacked some hostages. It has nothing to do with their race or religion.
Hans are killed in the same way.
Any country would kill the hijackers if the hostages’ life is in danger.
Maybe your India is an exception. Maybe your India will lecture on the hijacker non-violence theory. Then keep it to you.
In this case, there is nothing to do with communism or democracy, nothing to do with religions or secessionism. It has everything to do with saving the lives of the hostage.
Do you read me?
If you want to stretch this to religion, communism, racism, … your action demonstrates you are either illiterate or mentally challenged.
Note: "you" here = those Indian internet warriors.
However, Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the Stockholm-based World Uighur Congress, said the shooting did not stem from a rescue operation.
Police opened fire when locals clashed with officers during a demonstration outside the police bureau, he said. The Uighurs were protesting a recent security crackdown in Hotan city.
Nice story "bro" got to love the twist at the end of your story.
What nationality was the member who started this thread with the intent to troll? who came out posting snide remarks against Chinese and Muslims?
I don't speak for Indians, I speak for India. Should I hold you accountable for all the trolling Chinese fellas do on this forum?
Then your fellow member must think the same. Since he's an Indian and he speaks for his and your country, he must be held accountable for the trolling. Since you are acting as his and your country's defendant, then that makes you equally accountable
Don't want to hear stories about Kashmir, Ganges, Slums, Castes etc then be a good boy and don't troll. Simple enough for you to understand?
No different Indians think differently. We are not Chinese or Zombies for that matter.
Yes I don't mind, but please open a new thread for that. This thread is about the oppression of Uyghur people by the Chinese regime, so lets stick to the topic.
A general view of Xinjiang's Kashgar city.
BEIJING (AFP) - China said Thursday a police operation to free hostages in the restive Xinjiang region had left seven "terrorists" dead, but an exile group described the incident as a protest by local Uighurs.
The incident is the latest reported violent confrontation in the region -- home to roughly nine million mostly Muslim Uighurs who have long bristled under Chinese rule -- since three deadly attacks in July left dozens dead.
The Xinjiang government said on its official Twitter-like weibo account that a "violent terrorist group" kidnapped two people in the northwestern region's remote Pishan county late Wednesday night, prompting a stand-off with police.
During the stand-off, the kidnappers killed one police officer and wounded another. Police opened fire and killed seven of the suspects, and wounded and arrested four others, it added.
The two hostages were subsequently rescued, it said, without providing further details. It did not say whether the kidnappers were Uighurs.
But Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uighur Congress, an exile group, described the incident as a protest by local Uighurs prompted by mounting discontent over a police crackdown and religious repression in the area.
He said seven Uighurs were "publicly" shot dead, three seriously wounded, and another four lightly hurt, and added authorities were confiscating people's mobile phones on Thursday.
"The local government recently started a 'strike hard' campaign, which resulted in the disappearances of several people. They were taken away by armed forces, who refused to say where they were," he added.
"The local government has also restricted local religious activities."
Police in Pishan, in mountainous southwestern Xinjiang, and the Xinjiang government refused to comment when contacted by AFP, and the local government was not immediately available for comment.
Late on Thursday, Raxit contacted AFP to report that police had arrested 33 Uighurs, including five women, and barred gatherings of more than "three to five" Uighurs in one place "to prevent further mass protest".
Police contacted by AFP said they knew nothing about the arrests.
Xinjiang -- a resource-rich region that borders eight countries -- has been the scene of sporadic bouts of violence, much of which has been blamed by Beijing on the "three forces" of extremism, separatism and terrorism.
But some experts doubt terror cells operate in Xinjiang, where Turkic-speaking Uighurs practice a moderate form of Islam.
They say the violence stems from discontent among Uighurs, many of whom accuse authorities of religious and political oppression, and resent the influx of the majority Han Chinese into Xinjiang.
The official Xinhua news agency said there was speculation Wednesday's incident was linked to "a surge in religious extremism in the Muslim ethnic Uighur-denominated area that borders the Kashmir region controlled by Pakistan and India".
Some pics of Uighur Muslims
Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uighur Congress, an exile group, offered another version of events. He said a group of Uighur men had gone to a police station to protest random searches of people’s homes and were shot.
"This is the way that the Chinese resolve all conflicts. Uighurs have no way to have a peaceful protest," Raxit said in a telephone interview from Sweden.
Raxit said the residents of Pishan were angry that police had been barging into private homes without notice, searching for Korans, other religious literature and clothing that they claimed were evidence of religious extremism.
"Many young men have been taken away for no reason. I think the local Uighur people couldn’t take the pressure anymore," said Raxit.
The Uighurs, a minority group of roughly 9 million, are increasingly threatened by an influx of Han Chinese who have migrated westward in search of economic opportunity. Pishan, as well as the larger nearby cities of Kasghar and Hotan, have witnessed numerous flare-ups of violence. Uighurs armed with knives and homemade explosives have at times attacked police or civilians. The police in turn have dealt harshly with Uighur protests.
Often, the conflicts have revolved around religion. The Chinese Communist Party had banned civil servants from observing the fasting month of Ramadan and attending mosque.
Hyprocrte what about 7 innocent Uighur muslims you killed yesterday..
The spokesperson for the world uyghur congress... very creditable indeed
The spokesperson for the world uyghur congress... very creditable indeed
That is because we are poor and not able to feed all our people yet..but we are on our way and we will get there.
This was not intentional and neither government is killing them purposefully. People who live in shameless slave and caged life do not understand the difference. Instead they quote the same links again and again as if they found something new that we don't know we live in the free world and we get all the news as it is happening unlike somewhere where 170k die under the dam but not even own citizens know about it. Is that even a life?
We may be poor but we live much much better life than caged and indoctrinated pity souls