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07-05-2009, 10:58 PM
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| Xinjiang, China Riots (hundreds dead/injured)
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Violence in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has left at least 140 people dead and more than 800 injured, state media say.
Several hundred people have also been arrested after the violence erupted in the city of Urumqi on Sunday.
Xinhua news agency said police restored order after demonstrators attacked passers-by and set fire to vehicles.
The protest was reportedly prompted by a deadly fight between Uighurs and Han Chinese in southern China last month.
'Foreign plot'
Uighur exiles said police had fired indiscriminately on a peaceful protest in Urumqi.
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The Xinjiang government blamed separatist Uighurs based abroad for orchestrating attacks on ethnic Han Chinese.
Eyewitnesses said the violence started on Sunday with a few hundred people, and grew to more than 1,000.
Xinhua says the protesters carried knives, bricks and batons, smashed cars and stores, and fought with security forces.
Wu Nong, news director for the Xinjiang government, said more than 260 vehicles were attacked and more than 200 houses damaged.
An overnight curfew was imposed.
Uighur groups insisted a peaceful protest had become victim to state violence.
'Dark day'
The Uighurs were reportedly angry over an ethnic clash last month in the city of Shaoguan in southern Guangdong province.
A man there was said to have posted a message on a local website claiming six boys from Xinjiang had "raped two innocent girls".
Police said the false claim sparked a vicious brawl between Han and Uighur ethnic groups at a factory. Two Uighurs were killed and 118 people were injured.
However, the Xinjiang government has blamed the latest unrest on businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer, the Uighurs' leader who is living in exile in the United States.
"An initial investigation showed the violence was masterminded by the separatist World Uighur Congress led by Rebiya Kadeer," the government said in a statement, according to Xinhua.
It said the violence had been "instigated and directed from abroad".
The vice-president of the US-based Uighur American Association, Alim Seytoff, condemned the "heavy-handed" actions of the security forces.
"We ask the international community to condemn China's killing of innocent Uighurs. This is a very dark day in the history of the Uighur people," he said.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in China says Xinjiang, a mainly Muslim area, has been a source of tension for many years.
Some of its Uighur population of about eight million, want to break away from China, and its majority Han Chinese population.
The authorities say police are securing order across the region and anyone creating a disturbance will be detained and punished.
UIGHURS AND XINJIANG
Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims
They make up about 8m of the 20m population
China re-established control in 1949 after crushing short-lived state of East Turkestan
Since then, large-scale immigration of Han Chinese
Uighurs fear erosion of traditional culture
Sporadic violence since 1991 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8135203.stm
there's video on the site
from what i know about Xinjiang, China infested it with Chinese and pushed all the Uighurs out into the forests and basically have them living in poverty and so resistance insued and Chinas marked the resistance as terrorists
their struggles been going on for a long long time... and i wouldn't be surprised if that death toll is a lot higher then reported (of Uighur deaths)
It's amazing how western media basically demonized Iran for trying to control rioters (with virtually no deaths in comparisson, and yet have ignored the situation going on in China and Palestine like it was nothing, moreso with Palestine)
edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7562421.stm check out the video was done during the Olympics tho just shows the people there and how Chinas afraid they'll talk to the media
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07-06-2009, 12:10 AM
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One of my Christian former students decided to go try to convince the Uighurs to convert to Christianity. ("They've never heard of God!")
While I completely disagree with her opinions and choices, I do hope she's not dead.
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07-06-2009, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by StylinRed 
It's amazing how western media basically demonized Iran for trying to control rioters (with virtually no deaths in comparisson, and yet have ignored the situation going on in China and Palestine like it was nothing, moreso with Palestine)
| wont look good with int'l relations between countries if westerners stepped in and helped. its different with iran since america basically ass fucked the country.
westerners helped during the earthquake though. sent some food and stuff in to china. did china send anything to help people out with katrina?
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Uighurs make the best beef noodle soup in Asia. When I lived in Shanghai I would eat at this dingy Uighur restaurant that sold their awesome beef noodle soup for 3RMB.
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07-06-2009, 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Graeme S One of my Christian former students decided to go try to convince the Uighurs to convert to Christianity. ("They've never heard of God!")
While I completely disagree with her opinions and choices, I do hope she's not dead. | your a teacher?! that's scary tbh 
and yeah your former student sounds nutty like someone we would find in that jesus camp film
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07-06-2009, 12:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Graeme S One of my Christian former students decided to go try to convince the Uighurs to convert to Christianity. ("They've never heard of God!")
While I completely disagree with her opinions and choices, I do hope she's not dead. | I don't get people who try to convert other people's beliefs.
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07-06-2009, 12:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon HG I don't get people who try to convert other people's beliefs. | people try to convert when money is involved. christianity, specifically catholicism, was almost entirely monetarily based back in the dark ages. the tradition of trying to convert others has kept on though
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07-06-2009, 01:10 AM
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I think the western media failed to film demonstrations in SE Asian countries because people dont care about asians or the media is censored and the controlling govt does not want to upset a superpower country.
Seriously, China is a rich country. Rich because they take from their own people but not give back. The politics and corruption makes me sick.
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07-06-2009, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by StylinRed your a teacher?! that's scary tbh
and yeah your former student sounds nutty like someone we would find in that jesus camp film | I teach English.
You're.
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07-06-2009, 07:14 AM
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seriously, google the pics.
there is nothing peaceful about this Uighur Riots
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07-06-2009, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe westerners helped during the earthquake though. sent some food and stuff in to china. did china send anything to help people out with katrina? | of $454 million in cash that was pledged by more than 150 countries and foreign organizations, only $126 million from 40 donors was actually received.
and China was within the top 3 donars
the aid package consisted of 104 tons of emergency supplies, $5 million dollars and aid workers if needed - sent by chartered plane
you IGNANT MAHFAWKA
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Originally Posted by 6chr0nic4 of $454 million in cash that was pledged by more than 150 countries and foreign organizations, only $126 million from 40 donors was actually received.
and China was within the top 3 donarst
the aid package consisted of 104 tons of emergency supplies, $5 million dollars and aid workers if needed - sent by chartered plane
you IGNANT MAHFAWKA | total contributions from china to america: $0.00
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Honestly, only 20% of the totally donations are actually spent on crisis like this.  | |
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07-06-2009, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BNR32_Coupe total contributions from china to america: $0.00 | ya because the US declined financial aid
they examine all offers and then determine how much they need
and china was within the top 3 offers
the emergency supplies i listed however WERE taken and flown to the US 2 days after katrina hit
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just accpet the fact u'r part of China. Same goes to u Taiwan
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so did anybody spot diggy and the bdc on the vid??
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China bought US debt. That's how they helped the US.
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Originally Posted by q0192837465 just accpet the fact u'r part of China. Same goes to u Taiwan | Yup, fled your motherland and stated that while sitting in the comfort of your home in a democratic country.
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Originally Posted by ZhangFei China bought US debt. That's how they helped the US. | a crapload of it!!!!!
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Originally Posted by Graeme S One of my Christian former students decided to go try to convince the Uighurs to convert to Christianity. ("They've never heard of God!")
While I completely disagree with her opinions and choices, I do hope she's not dead. | Wrong. Uighur are a Muslim people.
Well, not all of them obviously, but majority.
Interestingly enough, looking at them, they look like a half white half asian peoples. All of them. It's as if they're transforming from asian to white or vice versa and are stuck in time, appearing with half white half asian attributes.
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Originally Posted by impactX Yup, fled your motherland and stated that while sitting in the comfort of your home in a democratic country. | While I'm in Canada as well, I'd say Quebec is FOREVER A PART OF CANADA!!
They have little choice in the matter...
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Originally Posted by ZhangFei China bought US debt. That's how they helped the US. | And you think Chinese Government are okay with sinking exports? Thousands of factories in China closed since the recession started in late 2007. Buying U.S. debt helps China in a very direct way.
The Chinese bank are exercising the exact same kind of lending policies as to what got U.S. into trouble. People are taking this easy money and piling into housing and equity market. It's a big bubble waiting to happen.
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