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 extended period of time, the Chinese language video footage that it uses is not of the Urumchi riots at all.
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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 attackers were indeed PRC citizens local to Kashgar.
新华网乌鲁木齐８月５日电 记者５日从新疆维吾尔自治区公安厅了解到，８月４日发生在新疆喀什的暴力袭击案件，警方在现场抓获两名犯罪嫌疑人，均为男性，喀什人，年龄分别为２８岁、３３岁，其中一人为出租车司机，另一人为菜贩
Xinhua Network, Urumqi, 5 August – Reporters have learned from the [...]
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Posted 05 August 2008
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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 admit straight up that I don’t have an even partially adequate fluency in using the Mandarin language internet (by that, [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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Posted 26 July 2008
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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 now quietly updated its article to accommodate the discrepencies. The Chinese language article that brought the error to their attention [...]
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Posted 14 July 2008
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