Snow Leopards saent to Xinjiang

[TruthSeeker]

China sends anti-terror unit to restive Xinjiang

(AFP) – 17 hours ago

BEIJING — China has deployed an elite police counter-terrorism unit to the restive northwest region of Xinjiang after a series of deadly attacks there, state media reported Saturday.

The Snow Leopard Commando unit is expected to carry out "anti-terrorist missions" in Kashgar and Hotan, which were hit by the recent violence, the China Daily newspaper quoted a spokesman for the region's police force as saying.

The unit is an elite counter-terrorism group under the People's Armed Force whose responsibilities include riot control and bomb disposal as well as reacting to hijacks.

The elite unit's presence in Xinjiang was to secure the region after last month's attacks and ahead of a trade convention next month, the police spokesman added, but did not give details of the size of the deployment.

Xinjiang has seen several outbreaks of ethnic violence in recent years as the mainly Muslim Uighur minority bridles under what it regards as oppression by the government and the unwanted immigration of ethnic Han Chinese.

Tensions boiled over again in July when two knife attacks as well as clashes between Uighurs and police killed more than 30 people in the resource-rich and strategically vital region.

Officials and state media have blamed the unrest on "terrorists" but some experts say the government has produced little evidence of an organised terrorist threat, adding the violence stems more from long-standing local resentment.

In July 2009, China was hit by its worst ethnic violence in decades when Uighurs savagely attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi -- an incident that led to deadly reprisals by Han on Uighurs several days later.

The government said around 200 people were killed and 1,700 injured in the 2009 violence.

AFP: China sends anti-terror unit to restive Xinjiang

 

[pakistanmyblood]

hopefully we will not see anymore human rights abuses.

 

[TruthSeeker]

China’s ethnic tremors

13 August 2011

In the face of spreading civil unrest among China’s Uighur population, the Chinese government’s love-fest with its all-weather ally, Pakistan, may be starting to sour.

Indeed, the authorities in China’s Xinjiang province are charging that a prominent Uighur separatist that they captured had received terrorist training in Pakistan. Given the level of China’s strategic investments in Pakistan, the bilateral relationship is unlikely to change.

Yet the charge of supporting Uighur terrorism, even if levelled only by local Chinese officials, reflects China’s irritation with Pakistan’s inability to contain the cross-border movement of some Uighur separatists. China, however, confronts not a proxy war or even foreign involvement in Xinjiang, but rather a rising backlash from its own Uighur citizens against their Han colonisers.

And the Uighurs are hardly alone. Even in Tibet – where resistance to Chinese rule remains largely nonviolent and there is no alleged terrorist group to blame – China is staring at the bitter harvest of policies that have sought to deny native minorities their identity, culture, language, and the benefits of their own natural resources.

To help Sinicise China’s minority lands, the government has used a strategy made up of five key components: cartographic alteration of ethnic-homeland boundaries; demographic flooding of non-Han cultures; historical revisionism to justify Chinese control; enforcement of cultural homogeneity to blur local identities; and political repression. The Manchu assimilation into Han society and the swamping of the locals in Inner Mongolia have left only the Tibetans and the Turkic-speaking Uighurs as holdouts.

Xinjiang, bordering Afghanistan, Russia, the countries of Central Asia, and the Kashmir areas occupied by Pakistan and China, was annexed by the newly established People’s Republic of China in 1949, a year before it began its invasion of Tibet. That put an end to the East Turkestan Republic in Xinjiang, which Muslim groups, aided by Josef Stalin, established in 1944, while World War II was raging. In the six decades since then, millions of Han Chinese have moved to Xinjiang, sharpening interethnic competition for land and water, not to mention control of the region’s abundant hydrocarbon resources.

Today’s China is three times as large as it was under the Ming – the last Han dynasty – with its borders having extended far west and southwest of the Great Wall.

Thus, Han territorial control is now at its zenith. Indeed, forced assimilation in Tibet and Xinjiang began only after China created a land corridor between these two regions by gobbling up India’s 38,000-square-kilometer Aksai Chin, part of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, following an invasion of India in 1962.

While India celebrates its diversity, China seeks to impose cultural and linguistic uniformity, although it officially comprises 56 nationalities. And, in enforcing mono-culturalism, China is also attempting to cover up the cleavages within the Han majority, lest the historical north-south fault lines resurface. In fact, China is the world’s only major country whose official internal-security budget is higher than its official national-defense budget.

This fixation on what the government calls weiwen, or stability maintenance, has spawned a well-oiled security apparatus that extends from state-of-the-art surveillance and extra-legal detention centers to an army of paid informants and neighbourhood “safety patrols” on the lookout for troublemakers.The traditional ethnic-minority lands have become the country’s Achilles heel.

Uighurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians in China face a stark choice: fight for their rights or be reduced to the status of the Native Americans in the United States. With or without external assistance, the readiness of an increasing number of them to stand up to China’s decades-old policy of ethnic and economic colonisation does not augur well for weiwen.

Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, is the author of ‘Asian Juggernaut and the forthcoming Water: Asia’s New Battlefield’. 
© Project Syndicate

China’s ethnic tremors

Hey!! PRC! Join the club!! The GoP either is incompetent or is complicit. Who knows which?>???

 

[TruthSeeker]

Exradition of five people from Pakistan to China, likely to be tortured, is condemned.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent extradition of five ethnic Uyghurs, among them one woman and two children, from Pakistan to China where they will face harsh punishment. Uyghurs who have been extradited to China in the past, were detained, imprisoned, sentenced, tortured, executed or disappeared after their return to China.

The five people, blindfolded and handcuffed, were brought on 9 August 2011 to the Benazir Bhutto International Airport where they boarded a flight of China’s Southern Airline for Urumqi, East Turkestan, between 8-9 p.m. (local time). According to local sources, another Uyghur, Abduxur Ablmit (Abdushukur Ablimit), who was to accompany his compatriots, was taken from the plane before the departure for unknown reasons. The deportees were taken to the plane through a special gate meant for VIPs. According to media reports, the woman was identified as Manzokra Mamad (Menzire Memet) who was accompanied by a minor girl and a boy.

The extradition of the five people comes less than two weeks after the violent incidents in Kashgar. According to state-controlled Chinese media, on 30 and 31 July 2011 at least 14 people were killed and 42 injured in two separate incidents in Kashgar. In addition, on 18 July 2011, Chinese security forces brutally and lethally cracked down on Uyghur demonstrators in the city of Hotan, killing at least 20 people. The Chinese government responded to the Hotan and Kashgar incidents by ordering a full-scale security clampdown on East Turkestan, as well as a curb on “illegal religious activities.”

Instead of recognizing that the root causes of these incidents lie within the discriminatory policies against the Uyghur population, including mass arrests, detention and executions and the destruction of historical Uyghur sites like Kashgar, China blamed the Kashgar attacks on Uyghurs that were said to be part of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), and trained in neighboring Pakistan. However, academics, scholars and Uyghur groups in exile have raised serious doubts about the existence of ETIM, which China considers a terrorist organization. All evidences on the existence of ETIM have been presented by Chinese sources whose credibility has to be taken with a lot of precaution. Chinese security forces shot dead two Uyghurs, Memtieli Tiliwaldi and Tursun Hesen, allegedly behind the Kashgar violence. Despite having the opportunity to capture the two men alive, Chinese authorities opted to kill them on the spot, sending not only a clear message to the Uyghur population in East Turkestan that any form of dissent would not be tolerated, but also preventing to get more information on the reason behind the attack and on ETIM itself.

After the Kashgar incident, Pakistan, which has as long been a close ally of China, immediately stated that it would extend its full support to China against ETIM. Although the reasons for the deportation of the five people could not be ascertained, the WUC believes that Pakistani authorities acted on the request of the Chinese government in order to underline the positive relations between the two countries.

By extraditing these individuals to China, Pakistan violated the UN Convention Against Torture (CAT) which prohibits parties from returning, extraditing or refouling any person to a state “where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture.”

“China is notorious for ill-treatment and torture in detention and no matter what these people are accused of, Pakistan should not have deported them back to China”, said the leader of the Uyghur Human Rights Movement Rebiya Kadeer. “In addition, China also has a track record of publicly executing, torturing and imprisoning Uyghurs who have been forcibly sent back from Pakistan.”

A part from the deportation, Pakistan is violating the basic human rights of Uyghurs living within the country. For example, in June 2011, the brothers Akbar and Omer Osman, who co-founded a charity to teach Pakistani Uyghurs their own language in the northern city of Rawalpindi, were prevented from traveling abroad to attend an international Uyghur conference in Washington, DC. They were clearly told that the Chinese Embassy in Islamabad asked Pakistani officials to not allow them to travel.

Only two and a half month ago, on 30 May 2011, the Kazakh authorities handed Uyghur refugee Ershidin Israel over to China in severe violation of international law standards. Israel remains disappeared until today. In December 2009, Cambodia extradited 20 Uyghurs back to China and their whereabouts are still unknown.

UNPO: East Turkestan: WUC Condemnation of Uyghur Extradition

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

The Chinese Snow Leopards are highly specialised and commando troops.

I don't think the Uighurs have a chance.

If the Uighurs are extradited, then it is Kingdom Come for them!

 

[Akasa]

The Chinese Snow Leopards are highly specialised and commando troops.

I don't think the Uighurs have a chance.

If the Uighurs are extradited, then it is Kingdom Come for them!

Not Uyghurs. Terrorists. Most Uyghurs condemn the terrorist attacks as much as the Chinese.

 

[houshanghai]

hopefully we will not see anymore human rights abuses.

say it again.the "Eastern Turkestan" group is an international terrorist organizations. you preach about human rights with these terrorists ？？？？？
i am a chinese Muslim too and i awfully spurn this kind of terrorism .actually,the "Eastern Turkestan" organization is secretly supported by USA. The object is that retrogress china into division and chaos, and modernization would become impossible. Don't any threat from china to the United States in future.

The terrorists blew up the police station


The western world medias are some liars through and through and always make willful distortion of the truths about China.
these East Turkistan terrorists raised deep black Jihad flag in the police station. these terrorist indiscriminately slaughtered the innocent children and women.



the police station of having been destroyed by these terrorists

innocent victims families

 

[TruthSeeker]

If the Uighurs are extradited, then it is Kingdom Come for them!

I don't think the Uighurs expect "Kingdom Come". Waaaaaaaaay too Christian. They expect ḥūrīyah, 72 each to be exact......

 

[gagaga]

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[gagaga]

my kind suggestion for Chinese poster, dont reply with sence, or else u will get urself blow up.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Mr. Gagaga, Sir,

What is your point? What does your post above have to do with the thread?

Are you a tread-derailing troll? Please explain yourself.

 

[gagaga]

i want to know more about separatism movement in India, anyone can enlighten me???

 

[gpit]

The Chinese Snow Leopards are highly specialised and commando troops.

I don't think the Uighurs have a chance.

If the Uighurs are extradited, then it is Kingdom Come for them!

It is only in you eyes that minorities are all terrorists.

Fortunately China doesn't work in Indian way.

 

[superNova]

I don't think the Uighurs expect "Kingdom Come". Waaaaaaaaay too Christian. They expect ḥūrīyah, 72 each to be exact......

truth seeker sir, i thought you to be a little mature, but guess what, amreeka always surprises us!!

 

[Thorough Pro]

Hey!! PRC! Join the club!! The GoP either is incompetent or is complicit. Who knows which?>???

Whether GoP is incompetent or complicit, I don't know. What I know for sure is that US is frustrated by Pak-China friendship and desperate to break it, is this your CIA active in Xinjiang?