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Chinese Bloggers Call for Kurdish Independence from Turkey

In an ironic twist, a number of Chinese bloggers have begun calling for Kurdish independence from Turkey — a riposte to increasingly vocal Turkish support for Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Appearing on Junshi.cn ["MilitaryAffairs.cn"] — a popular online military and national security discussion forum — this emerging theme comes on the heals of statements by Prime [...]

Posted 15 July 2009 † Adwokat § Xinjiang Media ‡ Comments (32) °

Chinese Military Bloggers Respond to the Unrest in Xinjiang

Chinese military blog-watching may be a particularly unscientific form of analysis, but I’ll be darned if it ain’t the best place to find colorful, downright nasty things to say about people involved in the recent unrest in Xinjiang. Says one commenter about the East Turkistan Movement (blog article here):
杀… 杀… 杀. [kill... kill... kill.]
Another offers [...]

Posted 13 July 2009 † Adwokat § News Updates ‡ Comments (4) °

Visual Misrepresentations in the Turkish Media

The Turkish daily newspaper Zaman’s video news story, Urumçi’de çatışma,  about the Urumchi riots is stunning due to its visual misrepresentations. While the Turkish voice over focuses entirely on the situation in Urumchi, for an extended period of time, the Chinese language video footage that it uses is not of the Urumchi riots at all.
Rather, [...]

Posted 13 July 2009 † Sherin § News Updates § Uyghurs ‡ Comments (12) ° Tagged: , , , ,

International Trade Plaza in Urumqi on Fire

So just one day after I claim, tongue firmly in cheek, that there is some sort of "fire" theme going on in Xinjiang – first, self-immolating Uyghurs in Beijing, then, a suicidal arsonist in Beitun, Urumqi’s International Trade Plaza bursts into flames.

The fire didn’t spread thanks to swift action by the fire department [...]

Posted 06 March 2009 † Porfiriy § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,

Heartbroken Beitun Man Continues Fire Theme

We cover a region that seems to have a disproportionate amount stories involving fire or explosions (here, here, and here), including, most prominently, the Beijing self-immolators who appear to be Uyghurs (and thus have a Xinjiang connection!). In the spirit of continuity, a heartbroken Beitun resident named Wang Xiaoming decided to resolve his breakup issues [...]

Posted 03 March 2009 † Porfiriy § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , ,