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Monthly Archives July 2009

Unrest Spreading to Kashgar

Posted by Sherin on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The BBC is reporting that the July 5 events in Urumqi were carried over into today, July 6, in the city of Kashgar. The unrest spread to a second city on Monday, with police breaking [...]

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Remarks on the Urumqi Demonstrations

Posted by Sherin on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

So far, the only official statements made by the U.S. on yesterday’s demonstrations in Urumqi are found in today’s State Department press briefing. The U.S. State Department spokesperson, Ian Kelly, discusses the issue with reporters, [...]

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Photographs of the Urumqi Riots: Part Two

Posted by Sherin on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following photographs of the July 5 riots (and their aftermath) in Urumqi are from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

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Photographs of the Urumqi Riots

Posted by Sherin on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following photographs are from a slideshow compiled by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

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140 Dead, 828 Injured in Riots

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

UPDATE: Xinhua claims that the Urumqi authorities dispatched 20,000 police and military personnel to quell the riots. They used “tear gas grenades, stun grenades, and high-pressure water guns” on the demonstrators. Others have suggested that [...]

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Madame Butterfly’s Son a Uyghur

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under History of Xinjiang

On Tuesday, 30 June 2009, Shi Peipu, known to the world as “M. Butterfly,” died in Paris at the age of 70, The New York Times reports. The biologically male Chinese opera singer and spy [...]

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Demonstrations in Urumqi – Official Response

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Xinhua news agency is now reporting that, between 8:00 PM on 5 July and 12:30 AM on 6 July (Beijing time), rioting broke out in several parts of the city of Urumqi. They report [...]

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Follow us on Twitter!

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Site Updates

The New Dominion has a Twitter feed! With information streaming in from all sides, this is a good way to keep up with the Urumqi demonstrations. This Twitter feed is keeping especially close tabs on [...]

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Riots in Urumqi – Video and Photos

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

There are now several videos of the Urumqi protests on-line: In the video above, you can see a youth smashing the window of a donkey meat restaurant. The Uyghur-run Arman grocery store next door, however, [...]

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Riots in Urumqi – Confirmed

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The BBC, the AFP, the Times of India, and Radio Free Asia are all reporting riots in Urumchi (Urumqi).  RFA says that protests against the events at Shaoguan, Guangdong began at People’s Square, People’s Theater [...]

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Riots in Urumqi

Posted by Tewpiq on July 05, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

TND has received word that, as of around 7:30 PM local time/9:30 PM Beijing time, there is a riot in progress at the Grand Bazaar in Urumchi.  Reports, so far unverified, claim that riot police [...]

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