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'West encouraging Xinjiang terrorism'
[Pak Daily Times] The United States is encouraging "terrorism" in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said Monday, also claiming that separatists in the region -- which has a large Uighur minority -- had fought alongside Syrian rebels.Beijing denies that the unrest in the vast region bordering Central Asia -- which last week left at least 35 people dead -- is due to ethnic tensions between Uighurs and China's majority Han. It has vowed to crack down on "terrorist groups" and ordered military exercises ahead of Friday's anniversary of major riots in 2009 that left around 200 dead. But rights groups for the mostly Mohammedan Uighurs blame unrest on economic inequality and religious repression, and Washington has raised concerns about discrimination. The People's Daily, a mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party, slammed the US government and media for what it said was its role in the violence. "For fear of a lack of chaos in China," it said in a commentary, the US was "conspiring to direct the calamity of terrorist activities toward China". "America's double standards on the issue of countering terrorism is no different than incitement and indulgence... How is this different than those who act as accomplices to terrorism?" it said. It asked if the 9/11 attacks and Boston marathon bombings in April meant "America's ethnic and religious policies also have problems", while rejecting such linkages in China. "The violent terrorist incidents in Xinjiang are not an ethnic issue or a religious issue," it said, calling the "massacres" of officials and bystanders "inhumane". Posted by: Fred 2013-07-02 |
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