rubyjackass
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That was just an answer to your first para. About the rest...
Firstly I have not heard anything about the other side in the first reports of the news. Which can only mean that the media never talked to them by then.
And the government was busy blaming the exiled people, I do not understand if they really represent Uighurs.
Despite a clampdown on communication a large number of videos came into circulation during the said time.
The figures as I pointed are too perfect.
Nobody in China even now says a word about Uighurs. They are still defiant. May be you want to say they need not explain it to other countries. But at least explain to China and we will take the message.
Add to it the PR with Hui people as an address to Muslims.
Then there are reports of restrictions on journalists even as the admin arranged for a guided tour of the region, going back on their word. It is during the guided tour that the protests of Uighur women, covered by media and that caused embarasst the govt came out, as I understand.
The media was filled with nothing but the official version of events, not a bit more.
And see I am not saying Western media is reliable beyond doubt. What I said was that by letting wide coverage, the facts can be known and the reasons addressed.
This is also a humanitarian issue apart from the political drama in and outside China. Uighurs have no international recognition at all and the worst is that those that challenge the government cannot live there nor can they run away like Tibetans because of the closeness of Pakistani govt to China. Worse China makes Pakistan call these people terrorists. The least that China can do is to tell Chinese that they have this problem.
My attention to the incidents was not perfect. But these are my notes.
Firstly I have not heard anything about the other side in the first reports of the news. Which can only mean that the media never talked to them by then.
And the government was busy blaming the exiled people, I do not understand if they really represent Uighurs.
Despite a clampdown on communication a large number of videos came into circulation during the said time.
The figures as I pointed are too perfect.
Nobody in China even now says a word about Uighurs. They are still defiant. May be you want to say they need not explain it to other countries. But at least explain to China and we will take the message.
Add to it the PR with Hui people as an address to Muslims.
Then there are reports of restrictions on journalists even as the admin arranged for a guided tour of the region, going back on their word. It is during the guided tour that the protests of Uighur women, covered by media and that caused embarasst the govt came out, as I understand.
The media was filled with nothing but the official version of events, not a bit more.
And see I am not saying Western media is reliable beyond doubt. What I said was that by letting wide coverage, the facts can be known and the reasons addressed.
This is also a humanitarian issue apart from the political drama in and outside China. Uighurs have no international recognition at all and the worst is that those that challenge the government cannot live there nor can they run away like Tibetans because of the closeness of Pakistani govt to China. Worse China makes Pakistan call these people terrorists. The least that China can do is to tell Chinese that they have this problem.
My attention to the incidents was not perfect. But these are my notes.