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Translation: Public Security Foils “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” Terrorist Plot

Posted by Porfiriy on June 24, 2010 under Translations into English , Xinjiang in the News

A few hours ago, Public Security spokesperson Wu Heping held a news conference to divulge details on an alleged Uyghur terrorist plot that apparently was foiled by Public Security forces recently. The most comprehensive Mandarin-language report [...]

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Xinhua Version of Kashgar Attack Addresses NYT Doubts

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

This is the second sentencing we’ve covered at The New Dominion (the other being the sentencing of conspiracists captured in January 2007) and both have been quite informative because sentencing is when the authorites release [...]

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Kashgar Attackers Sentenced to Death

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The two Uyghurs allegedly responsible for the August 4th terrorist attack in Kashgar, taxi driver Abdurahman Azat and vegetable seller Kurbanjan Hemit, have been sentenced to death, according to Reuters, AFP, the New York Times, [...]

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New York Times Raises Doubt over Kashgar Attack; Cites Witnesses, Photos

Posted by Porfiriy on September 29, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Over a month ago, the Associated Press released 3 photos depicting the aftermath of the August 4th attack in Kashgar. The official version of events first has a dump truck ploughing into ranks of drilling [...]

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All is Well in Fasting Kashgar

Posted by Porfiriy on September 19, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

China Daily has put out an English language article discussing the atmosphere in Kashgar one month after an unusually violent attack resulted in the death of 16 policemen. According to reporter Hu Yinan, everything has [...]

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Associated Press Releases Photos of August 4th Kashgar Attack

Posted by Porfiriy on August 21, 2008 under Links

As usual, after the numerous attacks that occured in the weeks leading up to the Olympics, it was noted by many that government provided no solid proof of the attacks, resulting in speculation that some [...]

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Location of August 4th Kashgar Attack

Posted by Porfiriy on August 16, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

While we’re posting maps, I figured I’d also post for our readers the exact location of the dump truck/knife/homemade explosives attack on the jogging police that occured on August 4th. Thanks to this website I [...]

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Interrogations Underway, Suspects Named

Posted by Porfiriy on August 06, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

This article is part of a series of articles covering emerging details and reactions to the recent terrorist attack in Kashgar. Information released in English continues to stay one pace ahead of information released in [...]

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Attackers in Kashgar Incident are PRC Citizens

Posted by Porfiriy on August 05, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Quelling worried speculation that the perpatrators of the recent Kashgar attack had come from abroad, possibly even Tajikistan, the PRC’s official state news organization Xinhua has release information in a Mandarin language report that the [...]

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Kashgar Attackers ID’ed as Uyghurs

Posted by Porfiriy on August 05, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Though Mandarin language coverage of the incident remains subdued and restricted to the terse one-sentence announcement we linked in an earlier post, Chinese news agencies are continuing its policy of distinct reporting in different languages [...]

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Men Armed with Explosives Attack Police in Kashgar; 16 are Killed

Posted by Porfiriy on August 04, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The buzz about the terrorist capabilities of armed groups based in Xinjiang was given a gruesome new twist Monday at 8:00AM when two individuals attacked a group of jogging policemen in the city of Kashgar [...]

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