The Uyghur issue

[BronzePlaque]

China killed millions people and your goverment tested nuclear weapons in east Turkestan so how can i trust of your sources.

Our Turkish sources says you killed 50 millions people in china since 1949 and 35 millions of them was Uyghur Turks.

I read about your inhuman tortures, i saw lots of tortured photos and videos i know lots of about your sins...

You can only talk but trues are trues!

You should show your sources..Chinese mistreatment towards Turks is a well known fact but your numbers, IMHO, are not accurate

 

[Shah9]

Do China still oppress people from Turkmenistan?

 

[usernameless]

China's Xi calls E. Turkestan 'frontline' in Kashgar visit

Police are the "fists and daggers in the fight against terrorism," China's President Xi Jinping said on a trip to the East Turkestan (Xinjiang) region where authorities say members of the native Muslim Uighur community are waging a violent separatist campaign.

Xi's tour, reported in state media late on Monday, was his first to the region since a ruling Communist Party conclave in November in which he ushered in a national security commission to combat foreign and domestic threats.

Xi has raised the pitch of his warnings on security threats after a spate of deadly attacks, including one in the southwestern city of Kunming in March in which 29 people were killed and 140 injured by knife-wielding attackers who the government said were separatists from East Turkestan.

"The Kashgar region is the front line in anti-terrorism and maintaining social stability," the official Xinhua news agency citied Xi as telling paramilitary police in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, that has been at the centre of much of the unrest.

"The situation is grim and complicated. The local level police stations are fists and daggers," Xi said.

The report, carried widely in state media, showed photographs of Xi touring police facilities.

"You must have the most effective means to deal with violent terrorists," Xi said at a police station where he was pictured inspecting a wall of various kinds of truncheons.

"Sweat more in peacetime to bleed less in wartime," he said.

Uighurs are Turkic-language speaking Muslims. Many of them chafe at Chinese controls on their culture and religion.

Unrest in East Turkestan has led to the deaths of more than 100 people in the past year has the Han Chinese authorities continue in their crackdown against Uighurs.

The government blames the violence on separatists from the Uighur community who want to establish an independent state. But rights advocates say China's harsh rule tramples on Uighurs' language and culture.

Many Uighurs complain they are denied economic opportunities amid an influx of Han Chinese into the region. Xi urged ethnic unity and encouraged students to seize the opportunity to learn both Chinese and the Uighur language.

"Learning two languages will not only make finding jobs easier, it more importantly will make contributions to promoting ethnic unity," Xi told school children and their teachers.

Earlier this week, Xi called on the Chinese public to build a "wall of bronze and iron" to fight terrorism, and "make terrorists become like rats scurrying across a street, with everybody shouting 'beat them'."

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the main Uighur exile group, the World Uyghur Congress, said in a emailed statement that China's policies were insincere and provoke unrest, not unity.

"Relying on armed force and monitoring deprives Uighurs of their freedom and proves the utter failure of China's local governance," he said.

China's Xi calls E. Turkestan 'frontline' in Kashgar visit | Asia-Pasific | Worldbulletin News

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China's method of ruling by iron fist and recent measures like rewarding people for spying on each other will probably only worsen things in the future. let's hope for the best for Uyghurs.

 

[atatwolf]

Do China still oppress people from Turkmenistan?

Yes, since 1950 they do and they continue ..

This was last week. Unfortunately it doesn't get much media attention like Tibetians do.

 

[Hakan]

Uyghur Student Motorcyclist Who Beat Traffic Light Shot Dead​

Police in China's northwestern Xinjiang region shot and killed an ethnic minority Uyghur student motorcyclist and wounded two of his pillion riders after they allegedly ran a red light on the weekend, sparking mammoth protests over the violent action, according to residents.

High school student Abdulbasit Ablimit, 17, died on the spot after he was shot from behind by policemen on patrol late Saturday in Kelpin county in Aksu prefecture, while the two other Uyghurs who suffered gunshot wounds have been detained, the residents said.

"I'm not sure whether he did not see the red light signal or he intentionally beat the red light," a Kelpin county employee told RFA's Uyghur Service, speaking on condition of anonymity. "The police shot him from behind and killed him."

"In our county, traffic police always stop motorcyclists and check their license and ID card," said another resident, also speaking anonymously. "Possibly, the young guy did not have any documents with him and, fearing he would be fined, sped away and was shot by the police.”

Anger

The shooting sparked anger among family members and relatives of the three students from Qum’eriq village in Yurchi township as well as other residents, all of whom marched to the county office carrying Ablimit's body wrapped in white cloth to protest the police action.

"About 400 to 500 people took part in the march, hoisting Ablimit's body," the Kelpin county employee said.

"They demanded that the authorities provide quick answers to the circumstances that led to the shooting," he said. "They also wanted the policeman who killed Abdulbasit to be punished according to the law."

Security forces blocked the path of the protesters but they changed course and marched towards Yurchi township and were again prevented from reaching their destination, eyewitnesses said.

Protests dispersed

Eventually, the security forces brutally dispersed the demonstration, beating and detaining a dozen Uyghurs, including Ablimit's uncle Mahmut Hesamidin, they said.

"The police harshly broke up the protests, detaining 10 to 15 people and seizing Abdulbasit's body," according to an eyewitness.

"Abdulbasit, who lost his father when he was one year old, may have fled from the police in order to prevent his mom from paying a traffic fine of about 200 to 300 yuan [U.S. $32 to U.S. $48]," he said.

Another eyewitness who spoke to RFA said the families of the two injured pillion riders were concerned about their well-being.

"They don't know where the two boys are being held. They only know that they were riding pillion on Abdulbasit's motorcycle and were injured in the shooting."

Yurchi police confirmed the shooting and protests but declined to provide details.

Police in Gezlik township, which is close to Yurchi, also confirmed the incident but told RFA to contact the local government office for details.

"Now the situation is peaceful and under control," a Gezlik police officer said.

Tense situation

But residents said the situation was tense in Kelpin county with armed security forces patrolling the streets.

"I live near the suburbs of Kelpin town and I see armed security forces and military trucks passing by the streets. The situation is still tense.”

China has intensified a sweeping security crackdown in Xinjiang, where according to official figures about 100 people, mostly Uyghurs, are believed to have been killed over the past year for alleged links to terrorism and separatism.

Many Uyghurs complain that they are subject to political, cultural, and religious repression for opposing Chinese rule in the resource-rich region.

Uyghur Student Motorcyclist Who Beat Traffic Light Shot Dead

 

[TurAr]

One can tolerate to a point. From what i can tell from the reports shared here, China is pushing people to insanity, and insane people can be dangerous.

If they shoot and kill people without a reason like that, then they shouldn't be surprised if another machete attack occur.

 

[atatwolf]

Uighur and Japanese are my favorite people of the east. Their destiny is bound together. Bu arada ben japonlari tutuyorum diye Cinlerin actiklari topiklere bakin :p

 

[[TR]AHMET]

China's Uighurs becoming ‘strangers in their own land'

Conflict in China’s Xinjiang province inflamed by cultural and religious restrictions on its Uighur population, activists say.

By Ilgin Karlidag

ANKARA

A suicide attack by two men on a railway station in China’s northwestern autonomous Xinjiang region last Wednesday has highlighted ethnic tensions in one of China’s most restive regions.

Both men were killed in the explosion in Xinjiang’s western city of Urumqi, along with a bystander, while 79 people were injured. With one of the attackers identified as Sedierding Shawuti, a 39-year-old member of China’s Muslim Uighur community, authorities have been quick to blame the attack - the first in Urumqi in 17 years - on Uighur separatists.

"Decisive action must be taken to suppress the terrorists," Xinhua news agency has quoted President Xi Jinping as saying.

The attacks, however, are far from one way. Human rights organizations and activists have told the Anadolu Agency that religious, cultural and language restrictions on the Uighur community by Chinese authorities have sparked tension and violence in China’s mineral and oil- rich Xinjiang province for years.

"There are restrictions about who can say prayers at weddings, or restrictions about who can fast during Ramadan," Sophie Richardson, China director at the Human Rights Watch, told AA. "There are [even] restrictions on who can grow beards."

China vehemently denies such accusations.

Uighurs, a Turkic group, constitute around 45 percent of the population of Xinjiang - one of China’s largest provinces - while Han Chinese constitute 40 percent, according to the 2000 consensus.

Richardson described restrictions to stop Uighurs pursuing their beliefs as "very intrusive."

"There are these very intimate personal family kinds of decisions about people’s daily lives that have been to some extent been removed from their [Uighurs'] control," Richardson said. "I think that is profoundly irritating for a lot of people."

"Strangers in their own land"

Scholars say the rapid influx of Han Chinese migrants to Xinjiang sparks frequent conflicts with the Uighur population. The Han population rose from 6.7 percent (220,000) in 1949 to 40 percent (8.4 million) in 2008, according to the Statistical Bureau of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

"Uighurs have increasingly said that they feel that they are the minority in what has historically been a region in which they have been the majority," Richardson said. "... They have become strangers in their own land."

From 1950s to 1970s, Han migration to Xinjiang was mainly state-orchestrated, according to experts. Migrants were sent to work at the state-run Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), which helped build farms and cities.

"Infrastructure built in Xinjiang to ‘help’ the local population in fact largely serves to meet the needs of Han Chinese in the economic exploitation of Xinjiang’s vast oil and mineral resources," Stephanie Gordon, a researcher in political science, at the University of Leicester in the U.K. told AA. ''This policy has done little to serve the local Uighur population, and heightened tensions within the region," she added.

In July 2009, a series of violent riots - which killed around 197 people and injured over 1000 others - broke out in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, targeting mainly Han Chinese. The riots began when police confronted a march calling for an investigation into a brawl in which two Uighurs died in the city of Shaoguan in Guangdong province.

"Abuses by the minority against the majority is just as bad the other way around," Sophie Richardson also said to explain the ethnical tensions in the region, adding "But I think many of the policies that are in place have really effectively been interpreted by Uighurs as saying, ‘you’re the minority, you’re going to be discriminated [against]".

According to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), an independent human rights monitoring agency, hiring practices in Xinjiang have reserved job positions in civil servant posts, state-owned enterprises and even the private sector exclusively for Han Chinese in recent years.

In a March 2011 report, the commission found most job postings in Xinjiang were reserved for Han. An announcement for teaching positions in a middle school in a location with 96.3 percent Uighur and 3.5 percent Han population, advertised all open 20 positions for Han.

According to the same report, a civil service recruitment on county-level reserved 93 of 224 open positions for Han and 38 positions for Uighurs, Kazakhs, Hui and Kyrgyz.

"There is a clear policy of discrimination against the local Uighur population," Stephanie Gordon said. "This has prompted many to leave the region in search of employment opportunities, further reducing the percentage of their population within Xinjiang."

englishnews@aa.com.tr

China's Uighurs becoming ‘strangers in their own land' Anadolu Agency

 

[usernameless]

the increasing amount of news about conflicts in China only show that it's a ticking time bomb till shit will hit the fan there too.

 

[usernameless]

China giving Uighurs alarm-raising passport chips


Uighurs and Tibetans in China have been given separate codes in the chips in their passports.
World Bulletin / News Desk

It has been established that China has been carrying out acts of ethnic discrimination towards the native Uighur Turks in East Turkestan (China's Xinjiang province) by placing a specially designed electronic chips in their e-passports.

When the e-passports of the Uyghur Turks are scanned through the sensors at control points, a loud alarm goes off.

After the alarm goes off, security is alerted that the individual is an Uighur. The Uighur is then pulled over into a side room where he or she is searched once again.

Chinese officials said that although the different code in Uighur and Tibetan e-passports were accepted as "unofficial" measures, the command had come from the central administration.

China giving Uighurs alarm-raising passport chips | Asia-Pasific | Worldbulletin News

 

[Hakan]

China giving Uighurs alarm-raising passport chips


Uighurs and Tibetans in China have been given separate codes in the chips in their passports.
World Bulletin / News Desk

It has been established that China has been carrying out acts of ethnic discrimination towards the native Uighur Turks in East Turkestan (China's Xinjiang province) by placing a specially designed electronic chips in their e-passports.

When the e-passports of the Uyghur Turks are scanned through the sensors at control points, a loud alarm goes off.

After the alarm goes off, security is alerted that the individual is an Uighur. The Uighur is then pulled over into a side room where he or she is searched once again.

Chinese officials said that although the different code in Uighur and Tibetan e-passports were accepted as "unofficial" measures, the command had come from the central administration.

China giving Uighurs alarm-raising passport chips | Asia-Pasific | Worldbulletin News

Uh oh looks likes some people have some explaining to do on PDF but its okay because kurds kurds kurds armenians.

 

[atatwolf]

Bide diyorlar ki neden cinlerden okadar nefret ediyorsun. Gerçekten istiklal kendi vataninda çok önemli. Ermeniler ve yunanlar yenseydi bizde uygurlar gibi olurduk. Belkide daha kötü olurduk...

 

[T-123456]

Dua edelimki cinler hicbir zaman dunya lideri olmasin,o zaman gercek yuzleri(biz biliyoruz)ortaya cikar.

 

[Targon]

Cinler ?

 

[T-123456]

Cinler ?

Haahahahaha ,dutch letters!
Btw,arent they the same,Cin and Cin?