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Showing posts with label Uighur. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uighur. Show all posts
Friday, May 5, 2017
The extraordinary ways in which China humiliates Muslims
Bans on “abnormal” beards and even the name “Muhammad”
Economist
CHINESE officials describe the far western province of Xinjiang as a “core area” in the vast swathe of territory covered by the country’s grandiose “Belt and Road Initiative” to boost economic ties with Central Asia and regions beyond. They hope that wealth generated by the scheme will help to make Xinjiang more stable—for years it has been plagued by separatist violence which China says is being fed by global jihadism. But the authorities are not waiting. In recent months they have intensified their efforts to stifle the Islamic identity of Xinjiang’s ethnic Uighurs, fearful that any public display of their religious belief could morph into militancy.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Riot in China's Xinjiang kills 16, 'terror gang' blamed
BEIJING Mon Dec 16, 2013 3:46am EST
(Reuters) -
Chinese police shot and killed 14 people during a riot near the old Silk Road
city of Kashgar
in which two policemen were also killed, the local government said on Monday,
the latest unrest in a region that has a substantial Muslim population.
Describing
the incident which happened late on Sunday, Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stopped short of directly blaming Islamist
militants but said a "violent terror gang" attacked police with
explosives.
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