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Central Asia’s Uyghur Problems Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Published July 9, 2009, 1:17 pm, Moldova.org
By Paul Goble The violence in Xinjiang has highlighted the plight of the Uyghurs living under often brutal Chinese rule and called attention to the broader Uyghur problem across Central Asia, where many Uyghurs live and whose regimes must now find ways to maintain close ties with Beijing while not further alienating their own peoples. Most Uyghurs, as the world now knows, live in Eastern ...
Xinjiang: the jewel in China's crown
Published July 9, 2009, 12:56 pm, Guardian Unlimited
Suppression of Uighur dissent reflects deep fear in Beijing that separatists could splinter the nation Riots in China's restless Xinjiang province are nothing new. In 1990, 50 people were killed in the town of Baren when armed police put down a demonstration against Chinese rule by 3,000 disgruntled Muslims. In 1997, members of the province's ethnic Uighur population gathered in the city of ...
Top Scoops
Published July 8, 2009, 5:12 pm, Scoop.co.nz
The apex body of Indian Muslims has come forward to condemn the brutality shown by the Chinese authority in the autonomous Xinjiang region in the last few days.
Alberta's Uighur community calls for end to violence in China
Published July 8, 2009, 3:48 pm, CBC via Yahoo! Canada News
More than 30 protesters from Alberta's Uighur community protested outside Calgary's Chinese consulate on Wednesday, calling for an end to violence in the northwestern China.
China's Uyghurs -- A Minority In Their Own Land?
Published July 8, 2009, 2:17 pm, Moldova.org
By Breffni O'Rourke The Uyghurs of western China are an ethnic Turkic people who are by tradition Muslim, and who feel more kinship with the peoples of Central Asia than with the Han Chinese -- the communist state's dominant population. The Uyghurs are an ancient race who have made their mark on Eastern and Central Asian history. For more than a hundred years, in the eighth and ninth centuries, ...
Eastern Turkestan Violence Casts a Shadow on Russia
Published July 8, 2009, 2:16 pm, Moldova.org
By Paul Goble As the violence in Xinjiang continues, ever more Russian analysts are focusing not just on what is going on there between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese authorities but also on the implications of the violence there for Russia both as a mirror of its own current problems and as a source of new ones. And while many of the Moscow commentaries are as hyperbolic as those coming from ...
The real Uighur story
Published July 8, 2009, 7:54 am, The Manila Times
When the Chinese government, with the comfort of hindsight, looks back on its handling of the unrest in Urumqi and East Turkestan this week, it will most likely tell the world with great satisfaction that it acted in the interests of maintaining stability.
Urumqi steps up security measures
Published July 8, 2009, 2:00 am, China Daily
After the July 5 riot in Urumqi, the government calls for efforts to restore order in Xinjiang. The government is taking measures to stabilize the situation and curb increased violence in Urumqi.
Officials appeal for calm
Published July 7, 2009, 8:12 pm, China Daily
URUMQI: Xinjiang authorities declared a traffic curfew in the regional capital from 9 pm last night to 8 am today as part of heightened measures to quell escalating violence.
Chinese officials appeal for calm in Urumqi
Published July 7, 2009, 7:14 pm, Asia News Network
Xinjiang authorities declared a traffic curfew in the regional capital from 9pm last night to 8am today as part of heightened measures to quell escalating violence. The move came after chaos hit the .....
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