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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 of the way modern Xinjiang is perceived, reported, and studied outside of China, this distinction is crucial, since much of [...]

Posted 28 October 2008 † Porfiriy § Uyghurs ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,

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 lavatory, a fragmented Uyghur diaspora desperate for a means to bring about momentous change – Xinjiang, from its history to [...]

Posted 20 October 2008 † Porfiriy § Uyghurs ‡ Comments (24) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,

Post-Olympic Miscellanea

First, a quick apology. Both myself and the other writer for the site have been undergoing some major transitions, though again for the both of us these transitions are quickly getting wrapped up and both we and the site should get back to normal quite soon.
And so for now, I’d just like to share just [...]

Posted 13 September 2008 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Kashgar Attackers ID’ed as Uyghurs

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 by throwing out onto the English language version of the People’s Daily that the suspects were indeed Uyghurs, aged 28 [...]

Posted 05 August 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Youku Reactions to Kashgar Attack

As we await more clarifying information for China’s state organs, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at some assorted reactions Chinese citizens are making to the attacks on Mandarin language pages. I’ll admit straight up that I don’t have an even partially adequate fluency in using the Mandarin language internet (by that, [...]

Posted 05 August 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Turkestan Islamic Party Leader Claims Responsibility for Numerous Bus Bombings and Attacks

An interesting turn of events just in from various news agencies: a certain Commander Seyfullah of the “Turkestan Islamic Party” has claimed credit in a video statement for the bus bombing/flash-fire that occured in Shanghai on May 5th, two more recent bus explosions that occurred in Yunnan a few days ago, along with two other [...]

Posted 26 July 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,