Posted on 08/01/2011 7:02:25 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China blames extremists for Xinjiang attack
China says a group led by militants trained in Pakistan was behind Sunday's attack in Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region.
In a statement on the Internet, the government in Kashgar says a suspect detained after the attack told police that the leaders of their group belong to a separatist organization called the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement." They reportedly learned how to make explosives in Pakistan before carrying out Sunday's attack.
On Sunday night, a group of attackers stabbed people on the streets of Kashgar, killing 6 people and injured 15. Five suspects were shot to death on the spot.
The local government called the attack organized terrorism. It released photos of 2 men who fled and offered a reward of more than 15,000 dollars for information. It said the 2 are Uygurs.
On Saturday evening, 2 men had stolen a truck and driven it into passers-by in the same city and assailed them with knives, killing 8 and injuring 27.
Security is tight in Kashgar on Monday with many armed police officers deployed in a square in front of a Muslim mosque and elsewhere. At the scene of Saturday's attack, police officers were seen checking vehicles for suspicious objects.
Most of the shops and restaurants in the city center are shuttered, indicating that residents are worried about further violence.
The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has seen a series of violent incidents over the past 3 years, amid frustration among the Muslim ethnic minority Uygurs with economic and political dominance by the majority Han people.
Monday, August 01, 2011 20:13 +0900 (JST)
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China only needs to shovel aid at Pakistan up to the point that Chinese territorial aims are achieved. Thanks to the massive perpetual motion conveyor belt in DC, we will probably be subsidizing Pakistan for the next 100 years.
Considering China threatened the US over issues with Pakistan not too long ago... I’d say you are right.
yes.
My guess - from the low body count - is that there’s not a lot of support in Pakistan for this kind of thing, given that China is the kind of benefactor that - unlike Uncle Sam - has no hesitation about cutting off the gravy train. Here’s why - an attack with full Pakistani support would have killed dozens, and involved something more substantial than knives and home-made explosives. I’m thinking Semtex, IED’s, RPG’s and battle rifles. Heck, if they had Pakistani support, they’d be mining the roads leading to Xinjiang and be mounting company-sized attacks on isolated outposts the way they are in Afghanistan.
We're talking about a China that had no problem with killing 50M of their own people during the Mao years. Killing a few million Uighur would be no big deal.
All China needs to do is force the Uighur to have to send their women to work in factories in Eastern China in order to economically survive. They will marry Han Chinese there and be assimilated. The problem will solve itself in a generation.
This really isn't much of a problem. Anybody can go amuck with knives and fertilizer bombs. Thousands of non-Muslims in China have done this kind of thing over the past decade or so. It's only an issue if Pakistan trains and arms the Uighur separatists. I can't really see Pakistan ever doing something like that. Unlike the US, China has no problem conducting purely punitive expeditions. If push comes to shove, China could actually swat Pakistan's air force from the skies. China can also destroy Pakistan's economy by randomly raining ordnance on its cities. Don't assume that the Chinese will play by Western rules.
This really isn’t much of a problem. Anybody can go amuck with knives and fertilizer bombs. Thousands of non-Muslims in China have done this kind of thing over the past decade or so. It’s only an issue if Pakistan trains and arms the Uighur separatists. I can’t really see Pakistan ever doing something like that. Unlike the US, China has no problem conducting purely punitive expeditions. If push comes to shove, China could actually swat Pakistan’s air force from the skies. China can also destroy Pakistan’s economy by randomly raining ordnance on its cities. Don’t assume that the Chinese will play by Western rules.
The ChiComs calling anyone extremists is like lard calling butter ‘fat.’
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