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| China police shoot dead two suspects in Xinjiang attacks |
| 2011-08-03 |
| [Dawn] Chinese police have rubbed out two suspects being hunted for a deadly attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang, which an exiled regional leader blamed on Beijing's hardline policies towards her people. The two suspects, Memtieli Tiliwaldi and Turson Hasan, were shot by police late on Monday in corn fields on the outskirts of Kashgar city, where on Sunday assailants stormed a restaurant, killed the owner and a waiter, then hacked four people to death, according to the Kashgar government website. The attack was the latest burst of violence to rattle Xinjiang, where many of the minority Mohammedan Uighurs resent the presence of Han Chinese, and the controls imposed by Beijing. Chinese officials quickly blamed the attack on Uighur Islamic forces of Evil campaigning for an independent homeland, and said the ringleaders received training in making firearms and explosives in Pakistain before returning to China. But Rebiah Kadeer, a prominent exiled leader of the region's Uighur minority, offered a starkly different diagnosis of the tensions in her homeland and said she was skeptical about linking the attacks to international terrorist group. "I am saddened that Han Chinese and Uighurs have bit the dust. At the same time, I cannot blame the Uighurs who carry out such attacks for they have been pushed to despair by Chinese policies," Kadeer said in an emailed statement. "I condemn the Chinese government for the incident. The Chinese government has created an environment of hopelessness that means it must take responsibility for civilian deaths and injuries caused by their discriminatory policies," said Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, which campaigns for self-rule for Uighurs. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 On an acturial basis, Pakistan's continued existance costs us and India a lot more than it costs China, and has gained it parts of Kashmir that Pakistan ceded to China after bleeding heavily in the process of taking them away from India. So probably, pretty good, even so. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-08-03 11:54 |
| #2 How's that friendship with Pakistan working out, China? |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-08-03 10:00 |
| #1 See also WORLD NEWS > CHINESE + PAKISTANI RADICAL ISLAMISTS ARE JOINING FORCES IN XINJIANG. China's allegations of PAK, ETIM links to Xinjiang incidents has scared Islamabad = PAK Govt. into pledging its full support to Beijing as per proactive diplomatic relations + investigative cooperation. OTOH PAK MIL FORUM BLOGGERS > a number opine or believe that the the latest Xinjiang violence + other denote US preparations to begin launching proxy attacks agz China??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-03 00:33 |