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Chinese paramilitary units take over downtown Urumqi AP photo
Ethnic rioting in Urumqi, Xinjiang has prompted a martial law crackdown by the Chinese government bringing thousands of security forces to the regional capitol. Early news reports, provided by the official Chinese news agency, suggested unrest by Muslim Uighars and mutual fighting between the dominant Han Chinese and minority Uighurs.
However, selective news reports and interruption of internet and mobile telephone service by the Chinese government have not been able to keep the full story from emerging from the western province as a campaign to blame the victims is underway.
A horrifying internet video of two Uighar men being savagely beaten to death before hundreds of witnesses provides the genesis of the "unrest" in Guangdong. Later, when Uighurs protested the murderous attack in Urumqi, the crowd was fired upon by Chinese authorities triggering lynch-mob rioting by Han Chinese against Uighurs in the central business district and throughout the city.
Although details on the over 1,400 people arrested are few, China leader Hu Jintao said many are students and will face the death penalty. Uighur leaders are claiming that many arrested are innocent Uighur youth and that Han perpetrators are going unpunished.
The reports and images coming out of western China have an eerie resemblance to the '228 Massacre' in Taiwan in 1947 where ethnic violence between the Formosans and troops of the Republic of China triggered four decades of harsh martial law.
The brutal violence on a short two-minute video clip betrays deeper-seated hatred than a simple reaction to a false rape report. The Washington Post version of events blames the murders on a false internet report of two Han women being raped by six Uighur men. Allegedly, the internet report provoked the savagery in Guangdong and subsequent rioting in Urumqi.
However, tensions between the Uighurs and Han Chinese are not new and have been building as China has forcibly attempted to assimilate the Uighur minority into the larger Chinese society. The depths of hostility between the Uighurs and Han are revealed starkly in the video clip of the Guangdong murders.
Meanwhile, an exodus of those able to leave Urumqi is underway. For those unable to leave the troubled city, military checkpoints, curfews, and restricted areas have become a new way of life under martial law.
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What it shows is the lawless nature in China, despite it has the largest military and police force in the world. People's right and safety is not protected. Without a fair, democratic system, people are prone to take their anger and frustration in their own hands. While prosper economically, China is still 300 years behind any civilized nations in democracy, and human rights.
Nevermind> How true your words are! It is only going to get worse as China expands. Sad!
where there is LOVING-KINDNESS and NON-INJURY let there be LEADERSHIP --
where there are LEADERS --
let them know LOVING-KINDNESS and NON-INJURY --
when LEADERS SPEAK --
let them SPEAK of LOVING-KINDNESS and NON-INJURY --
thank-you for your consideration --
GRATEFULLY EVERYTHING CHANGES --
so many options -- mm
Yesterday was Tibetians in Lahsa Tibet!
Today is Uighurs people in Urumqi,Eastern Kurishstan!
Tomorrow will Taiwanese in Island of Formosa!
Taiwanese wake up!
United together ,defend Taiwan drom Communist China!
Send Ma's R.O.C.government-in -exit back to Beijin!
Taiwan, Not China!
Sigapore not China!
Vietnam ,Not Cina!
Mongrolia ,Not China!
Corea ,not China!
God bless Formosa Republic!
Sinjiang was not a Han's province. Why have the Hans or Chinese become dominant and the local people become the minority? It should be the opposite. Remember this is how they did to Taiwanese. 90% of people on Taiwan are Taiwanese (prior Japanese nationals), but the world media said nothing about them. Taiwnese are deprived of any human rights on their homeland, Taiwan, which is a US trust land but disguised as free China.
Blaming the victims is being used now by Chinese columnists like Cao Chang-Chin. He said Taiwanese should have declared independence when Japan surrendered. There were 60-90 days political vacuum when Japan stopped its government functions and Chiang Kai-Shek’s troops had not landed Taiwan yet. Cao believed its Taiwanese fault to miss the chance. This is the most outragous charge agaisnt Taiwanese. It was after WWII. Taiwan as part of Japan could not declare independence. We are law-abiding people. Only savage warlord-like Chinese would think annexation would lead to legitimacy. But devils do not come alone, some Taiwanese did betray their families and people. They blamed 228 victims and despised other Taiwanese who do not have connections to ROC Chinese and thus have to work hard for a living. Such Taiwanese are criminals and sinners. They can never find peace until they denounce and break away from Devil.
Taiwan actually Naruwan Republic was not a Han's province. Why have the Hans KMT-DPP or Chinese-Taiwanese become dominant and the local Naruwan people become the minority? It should be the opposite. Remember this is how they did to Naruwans. 90% of people on Taiwan are Naruwan (prior Japanese nationals), but the world media said nothing about them. Native Taiwanese Naruwans are deprived of any human rights on their homeland, Naruwan Republic , which is a US trust land but disguised as Formosa Taiwan.
Yesterday was Tibetians in Lahsa Tibet!
Today is Nareuwan people in Taiwan-Formosa!
Tomorrow will Naruwan in Island of Formosa!
Naruwans wake up!
United together ,defend Naruwan Nation drom Formosan Chinese!
Send Ma's R.O.C.government-in -exit back to Beijin!
Naruwan, Not China!
Sigapore not China!
Vietnam ,Not Cina!
Mongrolia ,Not China!
Corea ,not China!
God bless Naruwan Republic!
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