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The Mystery of the Time Traveling Executions: Uyghur Terrorists Get Not-So-Summary Sentences?

Posted by Porfiriy on July 14, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Update: The mystery appears to be solved. My suspicions that the contradictions could be resolved by the possibility that RFA was simply wrong in its reporting turned out to be correct. The RFA article has [...]

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Knife Wielding Mini-Terrorist Cell Busted in Urumqi

Posted by Porfiriy on July 10, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Hasan, why are you running at me with that 50 cm long Uyghur musical instrument? Originally, the details disclosed by various news agencies described police retaliation against some non-ideological hooliganism that occurred in Xinjiang – [...]

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Urumchi Olympic Torch Relay in Retrospect

Posted by Tewpiq on June 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Updates: Reuters has an informative article on the broken promise of press freedom in the Xinjiang and Tibet torch relays, part of a series on the Olympic flame. The New York Times also has an [...]

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Olympic Torch Relay, in Urumchi Tomorrow, May Have Few Spectators

Posted by Tewpiq on June 16, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The Olympic torch, originally scheduled to be in Tibet this week, will be arriving in Urumchi tomorrow (Tuesday 17 June). The flame flew into Urumchi from Chongqing yesterday evening, and it will leave Xinjiang on [...]

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Police Station Attacked in Sangong (三宫) Hui Village

Posted by Tewpiq on June 09, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

查看大图 (All GoogleDitu maps now automatically focus at the all-China level. Please scroll west.) According to sparse reports from the international press, a police station was assaulted last week in Sangong Hui Village by a [...]

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“Female Special Forces:” Patriotic Women in Xinjiang will not be One-Upped by a Crazy Terrorist

Posted by Porfiriy on April 11, 2008 under Links

What happens when the bad guys up the ante by sending a naive, young, 19-year old girl to do the dirty work for them? You gather up the strongest, most motivated, and most patriotic girls [...]

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Blips of Unrest in Kashgar and Ghulja

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

In stark contrast to the recent riots in Tibet, where an originating fire lit in Lhasa spread quickly and eventually consumed whole Greater Tibet tinderbox in a matter of days (illustrated vividly and amusingly here [...]

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