Uighurs
Posted on 01/15/2009 9:03:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
THE 17 Guantanamo Bay inmates Washington wants to send Australia as it closes down its controversial camp for suspected terrorists are high on China's most-wanted list. They are Uyghurs, members of the nine-million-strong group of Turkic Muslims - some of them sandy-haired and blue-eyed - who live in the arid northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang, which is about the size of Queensland.
Five other Uyghurs who were hauled to Guantanamo after 9/11 were sent to Albania, a majority Muslim country, in May 2006. But the remainder have proved harder to place.
The Weekend Australian revealed last week that Beijing has lobbied Canberra fiercely against accepting the 17. China says they are members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which is listed as a terrorist group by the UN Security Council. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "The Chinese Government requires these terrorist suspects be repatriated to China. We firmly oppose any countries receiving these people."
China also battles relentlessly against the four other prominent "poisons" it views as its biggest threat: the Dalai Lama's Tibetans, pro-independence Taiwanese, the Falun Gong movement and campaigners for democracy.
But it is the Uyghurs - and especially the ETIM, which is fighting for independence - that Beijing most fears; they have been blamed for almost every act of political violence in China in the past decade or more.
An atmosphere of anxiety pervades Xinjiang as a result. The Chinese and Uyghur communities largely live in separate worlds. A Han Chinese businessman brought up in Xinjiang says: "I respect - no, I love - the Uyghur culture. But ultimately it comes down to a battle for the land. It's either us or them. And my father's bones are buried there."
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Doesn’t bother me. Let China have them.
I agree. Are we supposed to be upset about this?
For once, I am in total agreement with the Chinese.
Ditto!
Hell no!
In fact it wouldn't bother me if we handed over all of the Gitmo inmates to China. Imagine how much profit they could make out of auctioning off all their vital organs to the highest bidders.
China should insist on getting these guys back, in exchange for, oh, say buying $500 billion more in Treasury Bonds.
Let China have them. They’ll deal with in an appropriate manner.
a day in chicom hands,
and they’ll be pleading for
waterboarding with the americans.
Why do you think China wants them?
“Muslims - some of them sandy-haired and blue-eyed”
Just use your imagination — my guess is that China wants them so they can smuggle them into the US and release them in the US, after China properly armed them, possibly with biological weapons.
After the US is completely destroyed China will rule the world.
China is at war with Uyghurs in the Western region of China.
Let China have them....Then listen to the Libs complain.
I bet you could host a fund raiser online to come up with the funds to send them there and pay for the bullets (the Chinese usually charge the family) and you’d have enough money in just a couple of days.
Send ‘em back to China, and they will wish they were still at Club Gitmo.
First, it’s Uighars. Second, China wants them because they wage Jihad against the Chinese state.
They were in Afghanistan to learn Jihad tactics.
We won’t send them home, because China will not treat them humanly, aka, kill them.
Right, wrong...it is what it is. It has been the policy for a number of years, and will continue.
Uighurs
They need to be sent back. If terrorists in China find out they can receive assylum in the West, then it will only embolden them to wage war against the Chinese people.
As usual, we disagree. And fortunately for these Uighur rebels, Obama is unlikely to repatriate them to China. Uighurs are not our enemy. They were in Afghanistan because it was the only place they could receive training to overthrow the Chinese imperialists who massacred their ancestors and stole their land. Interestingly enough, East Turkistan (the land of the Uighurs) is probably the only Turkic land still involuntarily under the foreigner's boot.
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