Monthly Archives October 2008

Uyghurs Speak Out on Hotel Restrictions

In my last post on the subject, I stated my belief that the way a people react to civil rights violations is just as important, if not more so, than the violations themselves. In terms [...]

Mutant Palm on the Terror List

In regards to the list of terror suspects released by the Chinese government, I can do no more than direct our readers to Davesgonechina’s coverage at his blog, Mutant Palm. As a Xinjiang blogger I [...]

The Uyghur Civil Rights Movement: No Uyghurs in our Hotel

Terrorists squirreled away in mountain hideouts, the Uyghur chairman spouting fire and brimstone at the podium, a teenaged, female mujahideen attempting to start a blaze as intense as her own fanatic fervor in an airplane [...]

Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo Uyghur Detainees

Today, Tuesday 7 October 2008, Washington, DC District Judge Ricardo Urbina ordered the release of the seventeen remaining Uyghur detainees at the American prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be released to US soil. [...]

Madness? THIS! IS! XINJIANG!

The Olympics and all the related hooplah are now rapidly fading from memory into the history books, and the Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan comes to a close today. A quick browse through the archives [...]