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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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Chinese Consulate Officials Attempt to Block Australia’s Showing of Uighur Film

Posted by Sherin on July 16, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Chinese consulate officials in Austrailia attempted to have a film withdrawn from Melbourne’s International Film Festival because it focuses on Rebiya Kadeer and her family. The festival’s director refused, and later commented to the media [...]

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A Letter from Kashgar

Posted by Tewpiq on July 10, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following is a letter from an anonymous foreign traveler currently in Kashgar, Xinjiang. The New Dominion presents this letter for the consideration and edification of its readers. There has been little news out of [...]

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Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations

Posted by Tewpiq on July 08, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The first wave of Uyghur actions in Urumqi on Sunday evening brought at least a thousand people, mostly young Uyghur men, probably members of Urumqi’s small middle class, into the streets. They occupied public spaces [...]

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Urumqi Incident Analysis at Global Voices

Posted by Tewpiq on July 07, 2009 under Links

We at TND recommend this article at Global Voices for a strikingly nuanced discussion of Chinese attitudes towards the riots in Urumqi.  Reading, translating, and analyzing Chinese-language on-line sources, they present some different viewpoints from [...]

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Photographs of the Urumqi Riots: Part Two

Posted by Sherin on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following photographs of the July 5 riots (and their aftermath) in Urumqi are from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

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Photographs of the Urumqi Riots

Posted by Sherin on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following photographs are from a slideshow compiled by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

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140 Dead, 828 Injured in Riots

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

UPDATE: Xinhua claims that the Urumqi authorities dispatched 20,000 police and military personnel to quell the riots. They used “tear gas grenades, stun grenades, and high-pressure water guns” on the demonstrators. Others have suggested that [...]

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Madame Butterfly’s Son a Uyghur

Posted by Tewpiq on July 06, 2009 under History of Xinjiang

On Tuesday, 30 June 2009, Shi Peipu, known to the world as “M. Butterfly,” died in Paris at the age of 70, The New York Times reports. The biologically male Chinese opera singer and spy [...]

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Demonstrations in Urumqi – Official Response

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

The Xinhua news agency is now reporting that, between 8:00 PM on 5 July and 12:30 AM on 6 July (Beijing time), rioting broke out in several parts of the city of Urumqi. They report [...]

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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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Riots in Urumqi – Confirmed

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

The BBC, the AFP, the Times of India, and Radio Free Asia are all reporting riots in Urumchi (Urumqi).  RFA says that protests against the events at Shaoguan, Guangdong began at People’s Square, People’s Theater [...]

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