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China has detained and intimidated dozens of ethnic Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang for speaking out on rights abuses following riots in the regional capital three years ago, Amnesty International said. In July 2009, the capital city of Urumqi was rocked by violence between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people. Many of the Muslim Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language and call Xinjiang home, chafe at Beijing's rule. Since then, China has executed nine people it accused of instigating the riots, detained and prosecuted hundreds and ramped up spending on security, according...

NOTE The following text is a quote: www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15202 MMEDIATE RELEASE No. 291-12 April 19, 2012 Detainee Transfer Announced The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of two Uighur detainees from the detention facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to the Government of El Salvador. These detainees were subject to release from Guantanamo as a result of a court order issued on October 7, 2008 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and are voluntarily resettling in El Salvador. As directed by the President's January 22, 2009, executive order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a...

China typically exercises caution when making public statements about terrorist attacks in Xinjiang. When China blames attacks on Pakistan-based terrorist organizations, such as the possibly defunct East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), it risks adding tensions to the Sino-Pakistani “all-weather” friendship. [1] However, when China blames attacks on local Uyghurs it is tantamount to an admission that its policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have not created a “harmonious society.” Zhou Yongkang (left), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), shakes hands with a local Uygur farmer...

China to send 'harmony makers' to Urumqi 7,000 officials being sent to Urumqi after last week's deadly protests "Harmony makers" meant to ease tensions after demonstrators clashed with police Demonstrators were demanding better police protection after attacks Han Chinese accuse Uyghurs of attacking people using hypodermic needles (CNN) -- China is sending 7,000 officials to the western city of Urumqi after last week's deadly protests over a strange series of syringe stabbings, state-run media reported. The officials, known as "harmony makers," are meant to ease tensions after demonstrators, demanding better police protection, clashed with police for two days. The unrest...

Even though the major Islamic riots have obviously died down in China, the Muslim on non-Muslim violence has not. Unfortunately it is just a matter of time until we see Muslims unleash much more powerful biological attacks across the world.

SNIPPET: "One of the Chinese bloggers that I follow reported that Uyghur separatists have defaced a handful of Chinese .gov.cn sites. The hacker(s) are known as “Spy HackerZ” and their handy work can be found with a simple google search for “spy hackerz” site:gov.cn. There are eight results all from different local government sites. The Spy Hackerz use the defacements as opportunities to voice their opinion about perceived injustices. The sites’ admins have apparently been notified because the defacements are either removed or the sites are presently down. I grabbed this screenshot from the ‘iron circle’ blog:"

Xinjiang police published the photoes of 15 suspects wanted globally. 1 of the 15 wanted suspects is Han and the others are Uyghur. BTW, after having arrested 253 suspects invloved in the bloody riots in Urumqi on July 5th, Xinjiang police announced that they had arrested 319 more suspects again. Xinjiang police pledge that " all thugs would be arrested and none of them has chance to escape"

What was once a grocery shop is now a blackened mess. Two boys in shorts and singlets play in the rubble but the usual occupants are absent. Five days ago a Han Chinese family was butchered in this small shop — victims of the Uighurs who rampaged through Urumqi. Yu Dongzhi described how he clawed through the smoking ruins of the store to search for the family who lived there. He hoped to find his sister, Yu Xinli; her husband, Zhang Mingying; their 13-year-old son; her elderly mother-in-law; and a nephew aged 27. The police helped him to dig among...

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US lawmakers came to the defense of Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of exiles from China's Uighur minority, after Beijing accused the US-based activist of fomenting the country's deadliest ethnic violence in decades. Two lawmakers, one from each US political party, appeared alongside Kadeer at the US Capitol and announced they were introducing a resolution in Congress to condemn China for its "violent repression" of "peaceful Uighur protests." Congressman Bill Delahunt, a member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party, said Beijing's allegations against Kadeer have been "offensive and repugnant." "We are calling on the Chinese government to desist in slandering this...

Chinese Han mob marches for revenge against Uighurs after rampage Jane Macartney, Urumqi Thousands of Han Chinese roamed in a mob through the streets of the western city of Urumqi today looking for vengeance after Sunday's deadly riots as China's leaders struggled to regain control of the country's only Muslim-majority region. Men and women of all ages, girls in high heels and young men in smart white shirts carried wooden staves, billiard cues, iron bars and even machetes as they surged through towards the main city bazaar. They were determined to wreak damage on the business heart of the Muslim...

                                                                                                                                 

140 slain as Chinese riot police, Muslims clash in northwestern city Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination. By Barbara Demick July 6, 2009 Firefighters are seen dousing a bus in Urumqi, the main city in Xinjiang, where China's ethnic Uighur minority is concentrated. Eight hundred people were injured and hundreds held as demonstrations against racial discrimination erupted into street violence. (Shen Qiao / New China News Agency / July 5, 2009) Reporting from Beijing - China's worst ethnic violence in years broke out Sunday in the...

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196481.php "Al Qaeda's China Affiliate Releases First Magazine" (Bonus: e-mail an al Qaeda terrorist) (Added February 21, 2009) SNIPPET: "The Islamic Party of Turkistan has released its first internet publication through al Qaeda's al Fajr media center. The group is al Qaeda's affiliate which is active in western China, especially Xinxiang, but is also known to hit targets in the Han populated East. The group was active in Afghanistan prior to the US invasion. 12 of the group's members were held in Guantanamo at one time or another."

Coming Soon To A 'Hood Near You: Gitmo (Ex?)Terrorists By James Gordon Meek How would you like your family’s next-door neighbor to be a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was trained in a military camp in pre-9/11 Afghanistan? Would it matter if they were declared no longer to be an “enemy combatant” by the Pentagon? That’s the fundamental question that ought to be going through the minds of Northern Virginia residents this week, amid news reports - including my own New York Daily News exclusive today - that a group from Gitmo may soon be making house in the D.C....

Three set themselves on fire in Beijing 2 hrs 26 mins ago BEIJING (Reuters) – Three men set themselves on fire in the heart of downtown Beijing on Wednesday, state media reported, and at least one of them may come from China's restive Uighur minority, sources said. The trio ignited the blaze in their car at 3 p.m. (2 a.m. EST) at the intersection of the city's main thoroughfare and a high-end shopping street, the official Xinhua agency said, quoting a Beijing city spokesman. A witness saw "some kind of incendiary device" explode when police wrenched open the door of...

For Gansu’s Uighurs, Beijing’s Olympics are a world away By Anna Bodner DPA, LANZHOU, CHINA Friday, Aug 22, 2008, Page 9 Olympic fever that has swept most of China seems to have limited influence in Lanzhou, considered the geometrical center of China. For many, the 3 million inhabitant city capital of Gansu Province is still a frontier town, and while the Games’ influence is hard to miss in the city center with flags on mass display in shops and cars, hardly a trace of the Olympics can be found in the city’s Muslim quarters, where minarets tower over the roofs....

China's tough Xinjiang policy backfires By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING - China's success in eliminating clusters of Muslim insurgencies in the western province of Xinjiang may have pushed an alleged separatist movement across the border into Pakistan and Afghanistan, exposing it to greater influences by jihadi groups in those countries. With the Beijing Summer Olympic Games well underway, the Muslim majority province of Xinjiang has seen a spate of deadly attacks on government establishments and security personnel. Three violent incidents over the past 10 days have been interspersed with the release of two videos threatening the Olympics. In the latest assault,...

Three security staff murdered in China's Xinjiang: Xinhua 1 hour, 5 minutes ago Three security staff were stabbed to death in an attack Tuesday in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media reported, the third deadly assault reported there in just over a week. Assailants jumped off a vehicle passing through a checkpoint about 9 am (0100 GMT), attacking the security officers, the Xinhua news agency reported. It added one other security officer was injured.

/begin my translation Xinjiang Terrorists are Predominantly Women in 20's Terrorists who were behind a series of Aug. 10 bombings in Kuqa county of Xinjiang, China, are predominantly women in 20's. Quoting sources, Ta Kung Pao(大公報) in Hong Kong reported that four suspects, three women and a man, were pursued by police and hit the dead end, at which they killed themselves by setting off bombs they carried. Around 2:30 am, Aug.10, Uyghur terrorists armed with guns, and home-made bombs made a series of attacks on police station, government offices, and markets, moving as a group. A doctor at a...

Xinjiang official calls Monday's raid on border police a terrorist attack www.chinaview.cn 2008-08-05 19:01:17 KASHI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- An official of Kashi Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region said on Tuesday the raid on Kashi border police a day earlier was a terrorist attack. The attack had been planned in advance, Shi Dagang, Communist Party secretary of Kashi, told a press conference held in Kashi on Tuesday afternoon. He said the two suspects caught at the scene had confessed. Shi said that in documents prepared beforehand, the two had written that the attack was more important than...

Chinese Muslims link bombings to games By Mure Dickie in Beijing Published: July 27 2008 18:38 | Last updated: July 27 2008 18:38 A group opposed to Chinese rule in the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang has claimed responsibility for bombings around the country, saying they were part of a campaign against next month’s Beijing Olympics. Chinese officials have repeatedly raised the possibility of a terrorist attack and used it to justify a security crackdown. However, the claims – brought to media attention by the US terrorism monitoring company IntelCenter – are certain to heighten security concerns around the Games,...

China Executes Two Uyghurs 2008-07-11 Authorities in Xinjiang execute two Uyghurs for alleged terror links. Fifteen others are sentenced. CORRECTS AND CLARIFIES TRIAL DATE AND CHINESE LEGAL PROCEDURE. WASHINGTON—Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have executed two ethnic minority Uyghurs and sentenced 15 others for alleged terrorist links, according to local sources. Mukhtar Setiwaldi and Abduweli Imin were originally handed death sentences by the Kashgar Intermediate People’s Court on Nov. 9, 2007, according to a Nov. 11, 2007 report by China's official Xinhua news agency. Referring to them by their Chinese names, Xinhua said Muhetaer Setiwalidi and Abuduwaili...

PLA's rapid reaction capability in Tibet By Andrei Chang Published: June 27, 2008 Hong Kong, China — The eruption of riots in Tibet in March reflected an increasingly complicated political situation there, involving both internal and external factors. Internally, the peaceful and nonviolent approach of the Dalai Lama toward China has encountered greater resistance from the young generation of Tibetans, and the Dalai Lama’s political relevance has been gradually marginalized as a result. Externally, India’s China policy is now at a critical point, and India-China relations are likely to slip backward if they fail to quickly progress. India is adjusting...

Curfew in Xinjiang Town After Police Raids 2008.04.10 An all Chinese women special police unit demontrates their fighting skills in Urumqi, farwest China's Xinjiang region on April 9, 2008. AFP HONG KONG—Chinese authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed a curfew following a series of police raids near the city of Gulja (in Chinese, Yining) looking for weapons and explosives, local residents said. One woman living in the area of Yengiyer township said a curfew had been in effect since March 30, when police detained up to 40 people in raids on a number of houses belonging...

China: Plot on Olympic athletes foiled 1 hour, 22 minutes ago China said Thursday it had uncovered a criminal ring planning to kidnap athletes and others at the Beijing Olympic Games. Thirty-five members of a ring based in the restive western Xinjiang region were arrested, Ministry of Public Security Spokesman Wu Heping told a news conference. "We face a real terrorist threat," Wu said. The arrests took place between March 26 and April 6, he said. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror hijackings, China has tried to portray the simmering separatist rebellion in Xinjiang as being fueled by terrorist organizations...

Tibet isn't China's only problem, resentment still simmers among Muslims in Xinjiang By WILLIAM FOREMAN,Associated Press Writer AP - Sunday, April 6 HOTAN, China - The chirpy Chinese coffee shop waitress smiled Saturday as she rattled off sites travelers should see in this jade-trading Silk Road town in Xinjiang _ a vast western region of China that like Tibet has a long history of unrest. ADVERTISEMENT But the woman frowned and her brow furrowed with worry when she mentioned Hotan's main tourist draw: a sprawling bazaar popular among the Muslim minority Uighurs (pronounced WEE-GURS). "Oh, don't go to the bazaar...

Ethnic Unrest Continues in China By HOWARD W. FRENCH SHANGHAI — Fresh ethnic violence has erupted in a Tibetan region of southwestern China, with disputed reports of eight people shot dead by the police, and the Chinese government on Friday vowed swift and severe punishment of Tibetans accused of rioting and taking part in last month’s antigovernment protests. Police officers on Thursday evening fired on a crowd of protesters outside government offices in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, along the Tibet border. A Tibet activist group said the shooting killed eight protesters, but other unconfirmed reports put...

Group says Chinese police arrest 70 in Xinjiang Reuters - 1 hour 29 minutes ago BEIJING (Reuters) - Police have arrested 70 people from China's minority Uighur ethnic group in the Silk Road oasis city of Kashgar, fearing trouble when the Olympic torch passes through the city in June, an exile group said on Thursday. (Advertisement) Calls to police and government offices in Kashgar went unanswered, but others in the restive region of Xinjiang say security has been ratcheted up ahead of the Beijing Games in August. The report comes at a tense time for China as it confronts ethnic...

April 3, 2008 Tibet unrest spreads to Muslim separatists in China who demand home rule Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang say that women are banned from wearing headscarves Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang Province have been accused by the Chinese government of posing a terrorist threat to the Olympics Jane Macartney in Beijing Muslim separatists demanding independence for China’s westernmost region have massed in a southern Silk Road oasis to protest against Beijing rule, stirred up by recent riots in Tibet. Officials in Khotan said that about 100 people had been detained after several hundred members of the Uighur Muslim minority staged...

The Uyghur People will Independence es like Tibet! Hotan, Uyghuristan, China strongly protests the outbreak of repression CNA World Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilixiati today that the East Turkestan (Xinjiang) and Hotan City recently broke out nearly 1,000 protests, the Chinese government launched a large-scale crackdown, seizing nearly 500 people, and comprehensive information blackout. Dilixiadi of the CNA, protests occurred in 23 and 24, participating in the protest activities of the nearly 1,000 people in 80 per cent are women. Chinese authorities arrested within two days 500 people, the fear of the incident spread to other Uyghur-populated areas, the local news...