More Xinjiang Death Sentences
Peter Terpstra
2009-12-25
China's national media haven't reported on new trials and death sentences
related to deadly riots in Xinjiang.
HONG KONG—A court in China has handed down death sentences to another five
people for their alleged roles in deadly ethnic rioting in Urumqi, capital of
the far western Xinjiang region, news agencies say.
The new trials, omitted from China’s national media, brings the number of
death sentences handed down in connection with the rioting to atleast 22, of
which at least nine have already been carried out.
“Altogether 22 defendants in five cases went on trial Dec. 22- 23,” Reuters
quoted Hou Hanmin, director of the Xinjiang Government Information Office, as
saying.
The names of the defendants all appeared to be Uyghur. Uyghurs are a Turkic,
largely Muslim people indigenous to what China now calls the Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region (XUAR), many of whom bitterly resent Chinese rule in the
region.
News blackout
Hou declined to specify the charges, which she said were published in Xinjiang
newspapers. The Internet has been blocked in Xinjiang since July, and local
newspaper Web sites are inaccessible from outside the region.
Ma Xinchun, spokesman for the Urumqi city government also told AFP that five
people were handed death sentences and eight given life in prison. Four more
were handed sentences of 10 years or longer, Ma was quoted as saying.
Ethnic Uyghurs attacked Han Chinese in Urumqi on July 5, after protests
against Han attacks on Uyghur workers in Guangdong, in far-off southeastern
China. Majority Han launched revenge attacks two days later.
Urumqi’s Intermediate Court meanwhile sentenced five more people to death with
a two-year suspension—which the courts generally commute to life in jail.
Another eight people were jailed for life, according to a statement faxed by
the spokeswoman.
The statement said the court was shown ample evidence in the open trials, and
that more similar trials would follow.
China last week pressed Cambodia to deport a group of 20 Uyghurs, including
two young children, who fled after the July riots and sought asylum with the
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Phnom Penh.
Cambodia said it expelled the Uyghurs because they had illegally entered the
country. It has since been sharply criticized by Washington, which said the
deportations would harm bilateral ties with the United States, though they may
have strengthened relations with Beijing.
On Monday, China signed off on more than U.S. $1.2 billion in aid to Cambodia
during a visit there by Vice President Xi Jinping. The assistance, including
14 agreements for grants and loans, ranges from help in building roads to
repairing Buddhist temples.
Original reporting by RFA's Uyghur service and news agencies. Service
director: Dolkun Kamberi. Written by Sarah Jackson-Han.
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Are these people 'freedom fighters' or a bunch of murders and mobs ?
rst9
Either way, they are a bunch of killers. They deserve the death
sentences.
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