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Visual Misrepresentations in the Turkish Media

Posted by Sherin on July 13, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Turkish daily newspaper Zaman’s video news story, Urumçi’de çatışma,  about the Urumchi riots is stunning due to its visual misrepresentations. While the Turkish voice over focuses entirely on the situation in Urumchi, for an [...]

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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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Youku Reactions to Kashgar Attack

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

As we await more clarifying information for China’s state organs, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at some assorted reactions Chinese citizens are making to the attacks on Mandarin language pages. I’ll [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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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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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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Online Humor Affirms Xinjiang Stereotypes

Posted by Porfiriy on May 10, 2008 under Links

So what do you do if you’re interested in ascertaining how a nation’s social imagination classifies and categorizes a particular subset of its citizens? Ask the Internet, of course! This time, John Pasden of Sinosplice [...]

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Hong Kong Tabloid (Wildly) Speculates on Xinjiang Involvement in Shanghai Bus Fire

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

I’m going to state right off the bat, unequivocally, that since portraying a truthful picture of affairs in Xinjiang is one of the top goals of The New Dominion, we’re automatically cautious when dealing with [...]

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May brings more links.

Posted by Porfiriy on May 03, 2008 under Links

Again, the cool-posts-about-Xinjiang rate has reached critical mass and it’s time to share some links. On to the good stuff. Timothy B. Weston at The China Beat has conducted a fascinating interview that sheds some [...]

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Xinjiang Links Galore.

Posted by Porfiriy on April 19, 2008 under Links

After a casual weekend browsing session through my RSS aggregator and email I discovered that there are an unusual amount of interesting Xinjiang related articles floating around the Internet, and so now is as good [...]

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Details on New Olympic Terrorist Plot by Xinjiang Militants Emerge

Posted by Porfiriy on April 11, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Security announced at a Thursday press conference that yet another plot by “East Turkestan” terrorists has been thwarted by the authorities. Rather than conducting a spectacular military-style raid [...]

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