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Rabiyä Qadir in Il Manifesto: “Independence is impossible”

When I started studying Xinjiang, I knew I would need a broad array of linguistic resources. I never imagined I would read so much in Italian.
Here is my translation, doubtless below par, of a recent interview with Rabiyä Qadir (Rebiya Kadeer, رابىيە قادىر) published on 6 May 2009 in the Italian Communist daily Il [...]

Posted 10 May 2009 † Tewpiq § News Updates ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Self-Immolating Beijing Protestors were Uyghur, claims “Source”

On Wednesday a car pulled turned into the famous Wangfujing pedestrian shopping street in Beijing. When police officers pulled up to the car to cite a traffic violation, already roused to suspicion by the car’s out-of-town license plate, the people in the vehicle, apparently already doused in gasoline, set themselves on fire in an act [...]

Posted 27 February 2009 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Uyghur Farmer Produces Media Content to Air Grievances

The story of a disgruntled farmer gathering what is, for him, a significant amount of savings and traveling to Beijing to lay down his grievances before the authorities is nothing new to China. It is also not a big surprise when security officials, usually from that farmer’s home jurisdiction, follow the farmer to Beijing then [...]

Posted 07 February 2009 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

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: , , , , , , ,

Suspects Arrested, Killed, in Kucha Attacks

Xinhua’s English-language site is now reporting that eight of the suspected bombers in Sunday morning’s attacks in Kucha (Quchar, 库车) have been shot and killed by security forces. Two more apparently committed suicide by way of explosion, two have been arrested, and three are still at large. Xinhua’s Chinese-language site still seems to [...]

Posted 11 August 2008 † Tewpiq § News Updates ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,