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Guangdong TV News Blurb on Opening of Xinjiang Internet

Posted by Porfiriy on May 14, 2010 under Video and Audio Material , Xinjiang in the News

From an article at QQ, here’s a blurb of a TV report, apparently named “Morning in Guangdong” (广东早晨) that briefly mentioned the opening of Internet in Xinjiang.  

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Böre Keldi: Aesop’s Classic Fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” Depicted in a Uyghur Cartoon

Posted by Porfiriy on May 02, 2010 under Video and Audio Material

Yesterday I had the luck of stumbling upon what really is a treasure trove of learning material for people of all stripes who are studying the Uyghur language: a compilation of Uyghur cartoons depicting children’s [...]

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Video: Gunned Down in the Streets of Urumqi, Machete in Hand

Posted by Adwokat on July 27, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Analysis of this video is pending. It appears to be footage of the mosque incident on 7/14. It shows some guys stirring up some folks in a mosque, and then later actual footage of two [...]

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Riots in Urumqi – Video and Photos

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

There are now several videos of the Urumqi protests on-line: In the video above, you can see a youth smashing the window of a donkey meat restaurant. The Uyghur-run Arman grocery store next door, however, [...]

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Turkistan Islamic Party on Pakistan-China extradition: translation

Posted by Tewpiq on May 12, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

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 [...]

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9 Uyghurs extradited from Pakistan to China

Posted by Porfiriy on May 06, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

Last week, 9 Uyghurs captured in Waziristan were extradited to China, according to The Daily Mail, a Pakistani newspaper. Pakistan’s Interior Ministry claims that the 9 Uyghurs were previously involved in attacks against security forces [...]

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Hakim Siyit’s Petition Video in Full

Posted by Porfiriy on February 18, 2009 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang

Thanks to a frequent commenter and invaluable contributor who goes by the name “Uyghur,” I now know that Hakim Siyit’s petition video, in which he and many other farmers air their grievances against farming practices [...]

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Uyghur Farmer Produces Media Content to Air Grievances

Posted by Porfiriy on February 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

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 [...]

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Madness? THIS! IS! XINJIANG!

Posted by Porfiriy on October 02, 2008 under Humor

The Olympics and all the related hooplah are now rapidly fading from memory into the history books, and the Islamic Holy Month of Ramadan comes to a close today. A quick browse through the archives [...]

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Location of August 4th Kashgar Attack

Posted by Porfiriy on August 16, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

While we’re posting maps, I figured I’d also post for our readers the exact location of the dump truck/knife/homemade explosives attack on the jogging police that occured on August 4th. Thanks to this website I [...]

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Another Video from Turkestan Islamic Party: A Universal Call to the Muslims of the World

Posted by Porfiriy on August 08, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Update: The Christian Science Monitor has a comprehensive piece on and links to analyses of the video by various news organs, while the New York Times now has an article on the video, including some [...]

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Turkestan Islamic Party Leader Claims Responsibility for Numerous Bus Bombings and Attacks

Posted by Porfiriy on July 26, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

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 [...]

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