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James Millward on Guantanamo Uyghurs

Posted by Porfiriy on February 27, 2009 under Links

James Millward, a Xinjiang scholar at Georgetown who recently published a definitive history of Xinjiang titled Eurasian Crossroads, has published a piece at The China Beat discussing the evolution of the media perception of the [...]

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Miami Herald on Guantanamo Uyghurs

Posted by Tewpiq on December 27, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The Miami Herald ran an article on the Guantanamo Uyghur detainees yesterday.  It is remarkably sympathetic, based as much as seems to have been possible on research and direct observation, and avoids the sensationalism usually [...]

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Xinhua Version of Kashgar Attack Addresses NYT Doubts

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

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 [...]

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Kashgar Attackers Sentenced to Death

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The two Uyghurs allegedly responsible for the August 4th terrorist attack in Kashgar, taxi driver Abdurahman Azat and vegetable seller Kurbanjan Hemit, have been sentenced to death, according to Reuters, AFP, the New York Times, [...]

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Mutant Palm on the Terror List

Posted by Porfiriy on October 23, 2008 under Links

In regards to the list of terror suspects released by the Chinese government, I can do no more than direct our readers to Davesgonechina’s coverage at his blog, Mutant Palm. As a Xinjiang blogger I [...]

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Attackers in Kashgar Incident are PRC Citizens

Posted by Porfiriy on August 05, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Quelling worried speculation that the perpatrators of the recent Kashgar attack had come from abroad, possibly even Tajikistan, the PRC’s official state news organization Xinhua has release information in a Mandarin language report that the [...]

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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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The one time a Han would want to be a Uyghur.

Posted by Porfiriy on June 21, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

I found on Reuters an amusing article describing the harebrained plot of three Shandong natives to pay off some rather steep gambling debts they dug themselves into. Common sense says that when you’re in such [...]

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