Comments on: 23(-24?) March 2008: Protest in Xotän

By: YouAreIgnorant

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:04:03 +0000

One fact i can confirm is that there are already hundreds of Uyghur women taken to Chinese interior as a low-cost labor, and no doubt they will be exploited because most of the don’t speak the Chinese language, Chinese are good at getting the better of them utilizing their weaknesess. those writing about why there are’nt any resources to confirm the news are totally no idea about how Cnina controlls the news.by the way, let me tell you women protest has nothing to do with unrest in Tibet, the information is controlled so strictly that either Tibetans or people in Xinjiang are not able to get information. I figure even people in Xinjiang except those close to the incident have no idea about women protest, let alone any press or foreign news agency. all in all the writer of the article have little knowledge about Chinese policy toward ethnic minorities.

By: The New Dominion » Blips of Unrest in Kashgar and Ghulja

The New Dominion » Blips of Unrest in Kashgar and Ghulja — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:23:31 +0000

[...] relatively unconnected incidents. Following closely behind recently released information on riots in Khotan are reports on house raids near Ghulja from RFA and claims from an unnamed “exile [...]

By: OpkeHessip

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:15:57 +0000

Hiya, Gaz,

I’m inclined to agree. I think that, if this were in any way a sympathy protest, the international Uyghur nationalist community would have picked up on that immediately.

That’s interesting what you said about Uyghurs being beaten up alongside Han. Do you have a link? I think it would give credence to what I usually say, that Uyghurs and Tibetans have no especial love for each other.

By: OpkeHessip

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:22:40 +0000

Radio Free Asia may be a propaganda tool, funded by the US government and run by myopic nationalists, but I’m pretty sure its Uyghur-language office isn’t run by Falun Gong, as the Epoch Times very certainly is. Is the RFA Chinese service connected with them?

By: Gaz

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:54:11 +0000

I really don’t think this is a protest of ’sympathy’ for the Tibetans. Maybe they saw them protesting and thought “Hey if Tibetans can do that and get world headlines maybe we can too” or not even that, but you know what I mean.

Some Ughurs were beaten up by Tibetans alongside Han Chinese, and I’ve never seen any sympathy towards Tibet from Ughurs, I personally highly doubt its anything more than a ‘convenience’ to coincide with the Tibet protests. Although I would really love it if it was a sympathy/’count us in’ protest, maybe some Han Chinese would grow a pair too if it started to spread.

By: tok

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:24:07 +0000

RFA=The Epoch Times