Comments on: New York Times Raises Doubt over Kashgar Attack; Cites Witnesses, Photos http://www.thenewdominion.net/371/new-york-times-raises-doubt-over-kashgar-attack-cites-witnesses-photos/ a blog about xinjiang Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Wlodzislaw Duch http://www.thenewdominion.net/371/new-york-times-raises-doubt-over-kashgar-attack-cites-witnesses-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-3855 Wlodzislaw Duch Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:04:14 +0000 http://www.thenewdominion.net/?p=371#comment-3855 I was also an eyewitness together with my wife and 4 friends, staying in the same hotel; I've talked with AFP reporter next morning and have been quoted widely in the news after this event. I have two photos made of the scene. Although the whole event was very confusing - terrorists have been running around in police uniforms at high speed, cutting policemen using matchets - official reports have been fairly accurate, with 16 people dead and several critically wounded. Wlodzislaw Duch I was also an eyewitness together with my wife and 4 friends, staying in the same hotel; I’ve talked with AFP reporter next morning and have been quoted widely in the news after this event. I have two photos made of the scene. Although the whole event was very confusing – terrorists have been running around in police uniforms at high speed, cutting policemen using matchets – official reports have been fairly accurate, with 16 people dead and several critically wounded.

Wlodzislaw Duch

]]> By: The New Dominion » Kashgar Attackers Sentenced to Death http://www.thenewdominion.net/371/new-york-times-raises-doubt-over-kashgar-attack-cites-witnesses-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-3126 The New Dominion » Kashgar Attackers Sentenced to Death Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:46:58 +0000 http://www.thenewdominion.net/?p=371#comment-3126 [...] was it? In September a tourist traveling in Kashgar at the time gave the New York Times some pictures he took during the aftermath of terrorist attack and the only eyewitness account of it, which was, frankly, befuddling and vague but nonetheless was enough to cast doubt on the official [...] [...] was it? In September a tourist traveling in Kashgar at the time gave the New York Times some pictures he took during the aftermath of terrorist attack and the only eyewitness account of it, which was, frankly, befuddling and vague but nonetheless was enough to cast doubt on the official [...]

]]> By: C. http://www.thenewdominion.net/371/new-york-times-raises-doubt-over-kashgar-attack-cites-witnesses-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 C. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:22:04 +0000 http://www.thenewdominion.net/?p=371#comment-2482 In any case, the absolutely non-transparent handling of the issue by Chinese authorities leaves room for unlimited speculation of what really happened. Since this speculation is restricted to media space outside of the realm that ordinary Chinese have access to, it doesn't bother the authorities much of course. If the eye witness is reliable to any degree, his accocunt of the scene being hosed down a few hours after the events adds to this speculations. In the best of scenarious this reveals hair-raisingly unprofessional police work (not that unlikely), in the worst it hints at deliberate distortion of events. In any case, the absolutely non-transparent handling of the issue by Chinese authorities leaves room for unlimited speculation of what really happened. Since this speculation is restricted to media space outside of the realm that ordinary Chinese have access to, it doesn’t bother the authorities much of course.
If the eye witness is reliable to any degree, his accocunt of the scene being hosed down a few hours after the events adds to this speculations. In the best of scenarious this reveals hair-raisingly unprofessional police work (not that unlikely), in the worst it hints at deliberate distortion of events.

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