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Turkistan Islamic Party on Pakistan-China extradition: translation

Recently, we linked to a video of a spokesman for the Turkistan Islamic Party (Türkistan Islam Partiyisi (TIP) تۈركىستان ئىسلام پارتىيىسى) responding to the news that 9 Uyghurs had been arrested in Pakistan and extradited to the PRC, apparently under accusation of belonging to the TIP. Below is a translation of that video. [...]

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

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 in apparently 3 stages: first, ramming the group with a dump truck, second, leaping out and attacking them with knives, [...]

Following Protest, Xinjiang Suddenly Makes International News

Since the International Herald Tribune and its parent, The New York Times, ran articles on the Xotän protests yesterday, there has been an explosion of English-language news concerning the protests and the “little-known Turkic Muslim minority” that is the Uyghurs. Most of it wants to know, “Is Xinjiang the next Tibet?”
Poppycock.
Xinjiang stands in an [...]