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Xinhua Version of Kashgar Attack Addresses NYT Doubts

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 to state media networks the official version of events as established by the trial. And so when it was brought [...]

Posted 18 December 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Associated Press Releases Photos of August 4th Kashgar Attack

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 or all of the stories coming out of Xinjiang could have been exagerrated of fabricated to play up the terrorist [...]

Posted 21 August 2008 † Porfiriy § Links ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Interrogations Underway, Suspects Named

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 Chinese as Xinhua’s English language website releases more details on the attack, including the suspects’ names as well as what [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (4) ° 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: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Chinese authorities link Xinjiang unrest to Hizb ut-Tahrir

The International Herald Tribune spotted a Chinese language press release in which Chinese authorities fascinatingly attribute the protests in Khotan as well as various forms of unrest and troublemaking in Kashgar, Urumqi, and Kizilsu Prefecture to the international Islamic political organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, or the “Party of Liberation.” Hizb ut-Tahrir, or HUT (kind of [...]

Posted 06 April 2008 † Porfiriy § News Updates ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,