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Islamists blamed for Chinese massacre

posted by Susan Johnson | 8:54am Tuesday August 5, 2008

Muslims in China who want to break away from China and form their own Islamic state attacked a group of 70 policemen as they jogged in the street:

The two men who killed 16 policemen in the Kashgar massacre were today identified as members of an ethic group engaged in a shadowy insurgency in China’s north-western Xinjiang region.
The attackers, aged 28 and 33, were overcome and arrested at the scene and have been confirmed as Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim Turkic people, who make up the majority of Xinjiang’s 20 million population.
Although the official media did not spell it out there appears to be little doubt that they were members of the insurgency seeking to break Xinjiang away from China and establish an independent Islamic state of “East Turkistan”.



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Charles Cosimano

posted August 5, 2008 at 9:50 pm


This could actually be an interesting Olympics, which is a pretty rare thing.



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slaney black

posted August 5, 2008 at 10:45 pm


Tibetans? Long-suffering people who just want an end to cultural genocide at the hands of Communist Han Chinese chauvinism. Uighurs? Filthy mooslim terrists.



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Rob

posted August 7, 2008 at 12:34 am


I take this story with a large grain of salt.
There were two assailants, both Uighurs. They very well may have been separatist terrorists, but there are all kinds of people who benefit from terrorism–like police forces. And in Communist China, a country that kills live infants and harvests organs of prisoners, is it so far-fetched to speculate the two terrorists themselves may have been enlisted by the police to get more yuan in the security budget?
But in any case, Xinkiang isn’t on my list for next year’s vacation.



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