Whoooeee! CommieChinks KILL Thousands Of UIGHURS, Tiananmen-Style!
John Fartlington Poopnagle
ruthless reprisals in a number of western Chinese cities ... causes
are not totally clear, but leaked reports hint of pissed-off
persecuted minority populations.
As with the Tiananmen Square bloodbath, actual totals of deaths and
wounded will never be reported by the secretive criminal
"government."
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" 'Police' restore order in western China; 156 killed"
By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer
URUMQI, China – Chanting "Strike down the criminals," hundreds of
paramilitary police with shields, rifles and clubs took control of the
streets Monday in the capital of western China's Muslim region, a day
after the deadliest ethnic violence in decades.
State media said at least 156 people were killed in the unrest, which
did not bode well for China's efforts to mollify long-simmering ethnic
tensions between the minority Uighur people and the ethnic Han Chinese
in Xinjiang — a sprawling region three times the size of Texas that
shares borders with Pakistan, Afghanistan and other Central Asian
countries.
As darkness fell, security forces became especially tense and ordered
residents off the roads near the main gate at Xinjiang University —
the scene of some of the worst clashes Sunday.
As people watched from an apartment building across from the school,
riot police in green camouflage uniforms and helmets pointed long
sticks at the gawkers and barked, "Close those windows!"
Mobile phone service and the social networking site Twitter were
blocked, and Internet links were also cut or slowed down. Some videos
were posted on YouTube.
The government often says the Uighurs should be grateful for the
roads, railways, schools, hospitals and oil fields it has been
building in Xinjiang, a region known for scorching deserts and snowy
mountain ranges.
Many Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gers) haven't been wooed by the rapid
economic development. Some want independence, while others feel
they're being marginalized in their homeland. The Han — China's ethnic
majority — have been flooding into Xinjiang as the region becomes more
developed.
A similar situation exists in Tibet, where a violent protest last year
left many Tibetan communities living under clamped-down security ever
since.
"The Han Chinese say we all belong to the same country. We're all part
of one big family," said Memet, a restaurant worker who like other
Uighurs declined to give his full name because he feared the police.
"But the Han always treat us separately."
A Han Chinese shopkeeper, who only gave his surname Wang because the
ethnic issue is so sensitive, disagreed. "Those who cause such trouble
are criminals," he said. "They're never happy with what they have."
Sunday's violence was notable because it happened in Xinjiang's
capital, Urumqi, which has been relatively peaceful and hasn't been a
hotbed of religious or political agitation. In other restive Xinjiang
cities, red propaganda banners are filled with slogans encouraging
ethnic harmony. But most of the banners in Urumqi touted anti-drug and
fire prevention campaigns.
The population of 2.3 million is also overwhelmingly Han Chinese in
the city, a mixture of drab concrete apartment blocks and gleaming new
office towers.
The latest unrest began after 1,000 to 3,000 protesters — mostly
students — gathered downtown at the People's Square and protested the
June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers killed in a riot in southern
China. Xinhua said two died; others say the real figure was higher.
"There were several hundred people who marched past my shop. I didn't
feel threatened. They were peaceful and chanting, 'Uighurs will be
victorious,'" said a convenience store clerk who only gave her
surname, Zhang.
Poor quality amateur video purportedly showing a surging crowd of
hundreds running through traffic. It was shot from an upper floor of a
building and was posted on YouTube.
The police eventually showed up in force, and it's unclear who struck
first.
Rioters began flipping over barricades, smashing shop windows and
burning cars, according to media and witness accounts. Glass still
littered the sidewalks and streets that were eerily quiet Monday
because most shops and office buildings were closed. A white car being
towed away was splattered with blood, and there was a large red stain
on the stone steps of a hotel in the biggest Uighur district.
State television video showed protesters attacking and kicking people
on the ground, and the government said many Han Chinese were injured
by rampaging Uighurs.
In the video, people who appeared to be Han Chinese sat dazed with
blood pouring down their faces.
There was little immediate explanation for how so many people died.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 156 died, but it didn't give
other details.
There were no independent figures on the ethnic breakdown of the
casualties, but many were believed to be Uighurs.
Wu Nong, director of the news office of the Xinjiang provincial
government, said 828 people were wounded, more than 260 vehicles were
attacked or set on fire, and 203 shops were damaged.
Memet, the 36-year-old restaurant worker, said he saw People's Armed
Police attack Uighur students outside Xinjiang University.
"First they fired tear gas at the students. Then they started beating
them and shooting them with bullets. Big trucks arrived, and students
were rounded up and arrested," he said.
Chinese officials singled out the leader of the U.S.-based Uyghur
American Association — Rebiya Kadeer, a former prominent Xinjiang
businesswoman now living in Washington — for inciting the violence.
"Rebiya had phone conversations with people in China on July 5 in
order to incite, and Web sites ... were used to orchestrate the
incitement and spread propaganda," Xinjiang Gov. Nur Bekri said Monday
on television.
Xinjiang's top Communist Party official, Wang Lequan, said: "We must
tear away Rebiya's mask and let the world see her true nature."
The government has accused Kadeer of having a hand in many of
Xinjiang's problems since her release from prison into U.S. exile in
2005. The Foreign Ministry has publicly accused the 62-year-old of
having links to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a group the U.S.
put on its terrorist blacklist.
Beijing has not provided evidence to support the allegation, and
Kadeer denies it. She has repeatedly called for nonviolent protest and
the association condemned Sunday's violence.
Witnesses reported a new, smaller protest Monday in a second city,
Kashgar, home to the Id Kah Mosque, the biggest in Xinjiang.
In Urumqi, most Han Chinese stayed indoors and many Han taxi drivers
refused to drive into Uighur neighborhoods, where the air was filled
with the scent of lamb kebabs cooking over long grills. Although more
Uighurs were on the streets, they said they were worried about being
picked up by police, who were still arresting protest suspects.
"I went outside last night and saw all the chaos and went back
inside," said a Uighur office worker who only gave her given name,
Guli. "I heard a lot of gunfire. Then today, the police were
questioning people and visiting homes.
"My biggest fear is that I'll say the wrong thing to the police, and
then it will be all over for me," Guli said, making a throat-slashing
gesture with her hand.
Hundreds of paramilitary police sealed off a wide boulevard in front
of the university, where witnesses said scores of protesters were
killed. They chanted, "Strike down criminals, uphold the law." In the
evening, they dispersed crowds of Uighurs by yelling, "For your own
safety, go home."
As a middle-aged Uighur woman shuffled away, she said sarcastically
under her breath, "It's always safety first here."
The paramilitary police then began marching through the empty streets
in Uighur neighborhoods in tight columns with an armored troop carrier
following them. The security forces were all Han Chinese, and some
Uighurs rolled their eyes or made funny faces after the police walked
by chanting, "Let's protect Xinjiang!"
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thousands of innocent common people in the street on the spot!!
China please open fire kill those bastad on the spot!!
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violent rioters on the spot.
Keep it up China!!
The world will cheers for you for killing those violent rioters!!
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"Clashes Continue in Western City Amid Crackdown"
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
URUMQI, China, July 8 -- Chinese President Hu Jintao canceled plans to
attend a major summit in Italy and flew home early Wednesday after
reports that chaos and panic had spread throughout the capital of
China's far western region of Xinjiang.
Since clashes erupted Sunday between the region's Muslim Uighur
minority and the dominant Han Chinese, leaving more than 150 dead, the
government has deployed police and paramilitary troops, closed
mosques, instituted a curfew and rounded up at least 1,400 people.
Hu's withdrawal from the Group of Eight summit, reported by state
media, signaled his government's growing concern about the unrest that
continued to flare across this city.
Early Tuesday, a group of several hundred Uighur protesters, most of
them women in head scarves, gathered to demand that their detained
husbands and brothers be released and their dead be accounted for. At
midday, Uighur and Han Chinese men traded blows at the train station
until riot police dispersed them with tear gas. In the late afternoon,
hundreds of Han Chinese men armed with everyday items such as kitchen
knives, shovels, hammers and pipes began smashing Uighur food stalls
and stores, and headed to a local mosque.
Around the same time, the No. 2 People's Hospital was under siege as
protesters demanding the bodies of the dead, which have not yet been
released to the families, clashed with police who fired warning shots
at the crowd.
Witnesses reported casualties in Tuesday's clashes, but the local
government did not immediately say how many people had been injured or
killed, if any.
The continuing violence underscored the extent of the mistrust between
Uighurs and Han Chinese and how close the city remains to another
major clash. The conflict erupted after what started as a peaceful
demonstration by Uighurs apparently spun out of control. Since then,
protests have broken out in Kashgar, Yili, Aksu and other major cities
in Xinjiang.
There were protests overseas as well. At the Chinese Embassy in
Amsterdam, demonstrators on Tuesday threw stones and eggs and burned a
Chinese flag; in Munich, Molotov cocktails were tossed at the Chinese
consulate's front gate; a small group of demonstrators also rallied in
Washington.
The Chinese government has sought to play down any violence carried
out by government troops and instead has focused on the rioting
against Han Chinese. In one segment repeatedly aired by the state-run
CCTV, a Han woman was shown bleeding on a street as Uighur men threw
bricks at her. Local officials have declined to release the full
ethnic breakdown of the dead and injured but have said that at the
People's Hospital, 233 of the 291 victims were Han, 39 were Uighur and
the rest were from other ethnic groups.
Zhao Zongyu, a 45-year-old Han shoe seller, said he had witnessed
dozens of Han Chinese beating up about five young Uighurs because the
attackers felt they were being "too happy and arrogant." He said he
was worried that some Han Chinese are now eager to seek retribution
for the damage caused by Uighur rioters Sunday.
"I beat you, and you beat me. I don't know when the revenge will
finish. This is the big problem facing all of us," Zhao said.
The violence is largely rooted in Uighur resentment toward Han
Chinese. Ever since the government initiated a campaign to expand
development to this western frontier, Uighurs have complained that
they have been subject to political, cultural and religious
persecution. A number of Uighurs say the government is now trying to
cover up killings by security forces.
One Uighur man in Urumqi, who asked that his name not be used because
he feared arrest, said police have cordoned off Uighur neighborhoods
and have been raiding homes to arrest people at random.
On Tuesday at one end of the Uighur quarter, where stores and
restaurants had just reopened, the scene looked almost normal around
lunchtime, with residents running daily errands. But shortly before 2,
word spread through phone calls, text messages and word of mouth that
Han attackers were on the way.
In a Han area half an hour later, people began to flee when a man
raced across a bridge and shouted, "The Uighurs are coming!"
On Changjiang Street, a mostly Han cluster of stores near the bazaar
where the rioting occurred Sunday, thousands of men and women of all
ages stood with weapons. In one cluster of about a dozen people, a man
stood banging his stick on the ground. "If we see Uighur people, we
will beat them -- except the women," he said to cheers.
Not everyone was armed for an offensive attack.
As they waited on the street for someone to take them home, two Han
siblings -- a woman armed with a wooden stick and her brother, who
carried a shovel and a box cutter -- warily scanned the street for
signs of unrest.
"You can't say all Uighurs are bad, but some are cruel. You have to
protect yourself and your family," said the man, a 21-year-old college
graduate, who provided only his last name, Li.
[Researchers Zhang Jie in Urumqi and Wang Juan and Liu Liu in Beijing
contributed to this report.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/07/AR2009070700210.html?hpid=topnews
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country breaks into 56 mini countries. Each one for one of its 56
ethnic group.
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"In Wake of Turmoil In China, Minorities Face Painful Options"
"Many Abandoning Lives They Loved"
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, July 9, 2009
URUMQI, China, July 9 -- A few steps past the shattered glass, warped
metal and other remains of a Muslim Uighur restaurant, Ye Erkeng and
his family are in hiding.
Ye, his wife, younger brother, sister-in-law, niece and mother have
not ventured outside their apartment complex for three days. They have
been getting by on stale bread and boiled water.
After bloody clashes between Uighur demonstrators and government
security forces began Sunday in Urumqi, capital of the far western
region of Xinjiang, Ye said he did not want to risk having his family
members on the streets. But around 11 p.m. Tuesday, a mob of several
hundred Han Chinese carrying sticks, hammers and bricks ransacked the
restaurant in front of Ye's apartment as he and his family huddled
inside, praying.
"I thought, 'If they rush into the house, we will all die,' " Ye
said.
Letting Go of Dreams
Ye's family is among the many in Urumqi that find themselves at an
unexpected crossroads in the aftermath of this week's violence, which
has claimed at least 156 lives. Terrified of their Han neighbors, but
accustomed to the comforts of the city they have made their home, they
must weigh the benefits of staying in a place where they no longer
feel welcome or returning to a countryside where their salaries will
probably be reduced by half. On Wednesday, Ye and his wife, Mu Heti,
made the painful decision to go back to the countryside of Ili in
northern Xinjiang, joining an exodus of ethnic minorities out of
Urumqi that has overwhelmed bus and train stations in recent days.
Before Tuesday night, Ye said, he thought that the violence would pass
quickly and that life in Urumqi would return to normal. Ye, 40, who is
Kazakh, and Mu, 36, who is Uighur, and their extended families have
been in the city for eight years while he worked as a Chinese-Russian
translator. The family members had settled into a life they loved.
In a good month, Ye could make as much as 3,000 yuan, or about $450, a
small fortune considering that his whole family had been barely able
to eke out $75 a month farming sunflowers and cotton in his home town.
But their enchantment with Urumqi went further than money.
Ye had picked up the Han Chinese love of mah-jongg, a traditional game
involving tiles that is similar to rummy, and had a regular
competition going with friends. Mu loved to sit on the street with
friends, drinking tea and watching the city's bustle.
Ye's niece, 12-year-old Ye Ziyang, was the only minority student at
one of the top elementary schools in the city and had made friends
with Han children whose ambitions went far beyond those of her peers
in the countryside. Ziyang was learning English, and she often spoke
of going to college and becoming a doctor.
But all that now seemed distant, Ye and Mu said, in light of the
violence. Tensions between China's dominant Han population and people
native to Xinjiang -- mostly Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking group, and
Kazakhs, who are concentrated on the border with Kazakhstan, are
mostly Muslim and speak their own Turkic language -- have existed
since Chinese troops rolled into Xinjiang 60 years ago.
China has repeatedly said that it "liberated" the population, but many
Uighurs and Kazakhs complain of government policies that they say are
meant to wipe out their language, culture and religion in the name of
assimilation.
The complaints are similar to those of Tibetans, another of China's 56
officially recognized ethnic minorities. In March 2008, Tibet erupted
into protests against Chinese rule that spilled into violence. Like
the Tibetans last year, Uighurs have complained that the government
has practiced a double standard in how it deals with the perpetrators
of violence -- detaining Uighurs in large numbers, while allowing Han
Chinese to go free.
The Xinjiang region in recent years has experienced a large influx of
Han Chinese lured by the government's ambitious Develop the West
program, which seeks to duplicate the success of the wealthier coastal
areas. As a result, the region's Han population has jumped from 6
percent in 1949 to more than 40 percent in 2000, according to the last
census. The initiative has boosted incomes all around, but it has also
set up an uncomfortable hierarchy. Many of the new bosses are Han,
while the workers are from minority groups.
The bloody riots on Sunday show just how deep the mistrust between Han
Chinese and other ethnic groups runs, and how quickly a seemingly
minor disagreement can escalate. The violence began with a false
Internet rumor about the rape of two Han women by Uighur workers. That
led to a fight in a toy factory in the southern Chinese city of
Shaoguan that left two Uighurs dead.
The investigation into the workers' deaths, which some Uighurs felt
was inadequate, sparked a demonstration in Urumqi on Sunday. The
protest spun out of control as paramilitary troops fired on protesters
and rioters torched cars and businesses. A number of Han bystanders
said they were attacked without provocation. Two days later, violence
broke out as vigilante Han groups launched retaliatory attacks on
Uighurs.
The Chinese government has said that the situation in Urumqi is now
under control. But it will take much longer to repair the
psychological damage that the ethnically charged violence has wrought
on local residents.
Fear on Both Sides
The five-story complex where Ye and Mu live -- complete with its
leaks, cracked cement and creaky doors -- earlier housed 100 Uighur
and Kazakh residents, who had come to Urumqi in search of a better
life. Now all but 25 are gone. They have fled to parts of Xinjiang
where Hans are fewer in number. Still, Ye has compassion for his Han
neighbors.
"It isn't just us who are scared of what's going on. Hans are also
scared," Ye said. On Tuesday night, he said, he welcomed several Han
women who needed refuge from the mob-fueled violence. As it turned
out, everyone inside got lucky. The attackers moved on.
Some Uighur neighbors were not as fortunate. A 25-year-old who gave
his name as Abu Budu said he was taking a walk with his older brother
when he was suddenly surrounded by a Han Chinese mob.
He said he heard one man in the crowd tell the others not to beat the
Uighurs, but then felt a blow to his head and lost consciousness. He
woke up at the hospital with gashes across his back, a concussion and
so many bruises on his face that it had turned black. He said he is
being kept in a different ward from his brother and has been given no
information about his condition. "They beat me without any reason," he
said.
At dawn Wednesday, people began packing to leave. Most took only small
shopping bags, leaving furniture and other expensive but bulky items
behind. But Ye and Mu's family was stuck. They could not walk because
Ye's mother is nearly blind, and they could not find a taxi driver
willing to take minorities across the city to the Uighur area.
Mu said she is angry not only at the Han Chinese who turned violent,
but also at the Uighurs who did the same, leaving families like hers
with few options.
Ye tried to reassure his family members about their future in the
countryside.
"Life there will be all right," he said. "It's a small place and more
peaceful. We will just do labor work and farm."
Outside, the destruction of the one-room Uighur restaurant was drawing
curious Han passersby. Several men armed with sticks stood on the
sidewalk across the street from the restaurant, a few meters from the
door to the apartment complex. They gazed at the entrance as another
group of Uighurs -- mostly women and children -- trickled out, heads
bowed so as not to make eye contact with the onlookers.
[Researcher Zhang Jie contributed to this report.]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070804159.html