China state media blames

artappraiser — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:16:44 +0000

In reply to Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill 27: Xinhua

China state media blames Syria rebels for Xinjiang violence, July 1, 2013

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Monday blamed Syrian opposition forces in unusually specific finger pointing for training Muslim extremists responsible for the deadliest unrest in four years in China's far-western region of Xinjiang.

China has traditionally blamed violence in Xinjiang, home to Muslim Uighurs, on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent state of "East Turkestan".

This appears to mark the first time Beijing has blamed a group in Syria and fits a common narrative of the government portraying Xinjiang's violence as coming from abroad, such as Pakistan, and not due to homegrown anger.

Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a forum in Beijing last Saturday [....]

Chinese crackdown in western

artappraiser — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 19:54:09 +0000

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Chinese crackdown in western Uighur region

By Julie Makinen, Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2013

BEIJING - Dozens of armored vehicles and military trucks entered the capital of the western Chinese region of Xinjiang on Saturday as President Xi Jinping ordered tighter security following at least two outbreaks of violence.

The show of force came amid rising tensions between minority Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese authorities as the region prepares to mark the fourth anniversary of ethnic clashes that left nearly 200 people dead in Urumqi in July 2009.

Photos from Urumqion in the microblog service Weibo showed white armored vehicles and open-topped trucks filled with troops and police in riot gear. An AFP reporter on the scene said the action shut down large sections of the city’s center, with hundreds of armed troops massing in People’s Square [....]

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