Posted on 07/07/2009 10:52:55 AM PDT by traumer
URUMQI, China Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people.
Members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group attacked people near the Urumqi's railway station, and women in headscarves protested the arrests of husbands and sons in another part of the city. Meanwhile, for much of the afternoon, a mob of 1,000 mostly young Han Chinese holding clubs and chanting "Defend the Country" tore through streets trying to get to a Uighur neighborhood until they were repulsed by police firing tear gas.
Panic and anger bubbled up amid the suspicion in Urumqi. In some neighborhoods, Han Chinese China's majority ethnic group armed themselves with pieces of lumber and shovels to defend themselves. People bought up bottled water out of fear, as one resident said, that "the Uighurs might poison the water."
The outbursts happened despite swarms of paramilitary and riot police enforcing a dragnet that state media said led to the arrest more than 1,400 participants in Sunday's riot, the worst ethnic violence in the often tense region in decades.
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The people throwing rocks at busses aren't the Chinese Police.
ML/NJ
Send Obama in!
The Chinese has been dealing with the Muslims in their West for years. The Western media acts like China is one big, happy united nation when in fact it only holds on to its western frontier by brutal violence and suppressing Uighur nationalism.
In China, the further a province is from Beijing, the less likely it is to follow the CCP in all ways. There is quite a bit of autonomy for the provinces, so long as they don't push back on major initiatives. The western provinces (Tibet (called XiZang" in China), Xinjiang, and QingHai make up their "west coast"... and 2 out of 3 certainly seem to be getting punished for failing to toe the line. In the internet age, these failures to obey are magnified, and thus the dragon's attention is compelled to make sure that they don't "lose face". Almost predictable, really.
>>>> A pox on both their houses. I can’t say I really support the Han Chinese much. <<<<<
Same here, my disdain is divided among both groups.
good old fasioned Han to Hand warfare..
Mobs weilding meat cleavers beat people in Chinses streets.
I object to the term ‘Beat’.
The title should read “ mobs weilding meat cleavers TENDERIZE people in Chinese streets.”
Thank you.
Why don't we ever get that kind of Communist over here?
I permanently lost every ounce of sympathy for any Muslim cause on 9/11.
I couldn't possibly care any less about the Uighurs and their political aspirations.
(Odd choices, I know... but it can't be Iran... they're about to democratize on their own. Not Iraq or Afghanistan... we're still there. Not Saudi Arabia... too much control over oil. Jordan? Their king seems almost rational. Pakistan? Nukes. Egypt? The Suez Canal. Those were the only 3 other state sponsors of terror I could think of!)
I believe we may have them here.
I recall a story about a man who shot several hunters because
they were coming at him about his hunting on their hunting grounds.
I may be wrong but it was some name like that, I think.
I could care less about Muslims as well but the presence of the Uighurs in the western frontier of China gives that nation an edge of instability. Anything that weakens China internally benefits our nation.
There were not any Chinese in this region (Han or otherwise) until about 100-200BC. This whole region was Caucasian up to that time and have been losing to the Chinese ever since. There Caucasian only graveyards in the region that were still being used as late at the 1300’s AD.
Not guilty.
Many of us lost any and all sympathy for all things Muslim on 9/11. And that's that.
Regardless, the documentary The Silk Road produced by NHK Japan and China TV in 1980 provides an excellent view of Uighur culture, since a huge stretch of the old road runs straight through what is now Uighur territory.
There are a few versions of it out there, one is 3 DVDs and another seems to be more than a dozen.
On The Presence Of Non-Chinese At Anyang
Blonde Haired Chinese
That was Hmong. Forget it.
Don’t know of any Hans here. Does anyone else?
Obama... quick, send in the human shields.
I suppose it would be anti-PC to remember the little Chinese sidekick to the Blackhawks comic book characters who carried a meat cleaver and was called Chop-Chop.
Or am I in the throes of Alzheimers?
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