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[Vanguard News Network Forum] Explosions rock Western China: The attacks, coinciding with the first weekend of the Beijing Olympics, occurred less than a week after what the Chinese authorities had described as China's worst terrorist assault in recent memory, in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar. Last Monday, two Uighur Muslims rammed a truck into a group of paramilitary officers who were doing their morning exercises, then attacked with explosives and knives, the authorities say.
[China Connection] Travelling to Xinjiang province: The Uighur people are ethnically and culturally distinct from the Han Chinese. They have Turkish roots and speak a language that is derived from Turkish.
[the theory of everything] Nanjing: Kazakhs and the conclusion: It reminded me of what the Lonely Planet guidebook for Turkey has to say about the 'Genocide Museum' in Van(the museum that makes the claim that it was in fact a genocide of Turks, rather than Armenians, and proudly displays some Turkish bones as proof). I seem to recall something about 'a grisly display of bones that should have long ago been returned to the earth'.
[MaTo autour du MONDE] Geopolitical Interests and Competition in Central Asia: Because Uighur separatists in Xinjiang “can receive ideological support and military hardware from neighbouring Central Asian states” (Ong 429), China needed to constructively engage those states into a cooperative relationship. That is why, according to Shieves, “China’s current foreign policy strategy is focused on assuaging fears of a China threat, rather than on creating situations where states in the region feel threatened or dominated by a rising China” (206).
[TQFD Blog] Knowing Our Enemies.: Al-Qaeda Also known as Qa”˜idat al-Jihad, Islamic Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places, World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders, Islamic Salvation Foundation, and the Osama bin Laden Network. Related: Alneda (former web site), As-Sahab (affiliated public relations organization).
[Gotasdf的共享空间] Pinyin - Tibet / Xinjiang culture - water touching stone -: Xinjiang is Chinese, was Chinese, and will forever be Chinese. Also keep in mind that the Chinese aren't expelling the Uighurs from Xinjiang like many other .
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