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Hollywoodaction
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Hater Depot
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So it's illegal to keep them there, and illegal to let them go? Lovely.
You'd think that given the seriousness of the war on terror, the people in charge of it would take it seriously. Warehousing people without forming anything resembling a plan for what to do with them is, well.. "not serious" would be a serious understatement. |
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Hollywoodaction
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"Following 9/11 China stated it supported the USA in the war on terror and many human rights organisations are concerned that this is being used as a pretext to crack down on ethnic Uyghurs. Most Uyghur exile groups today claim their cultural rights suppressed by the Chinese government and that the PRC responds to Uyghur expressions of their culture, religion or demands for independence with human rights violations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uighur
It looks like this may be the reason the US government hasn't been as critical as it should have been of the human rights abuses in China. I suppose they were afraid China would reveal they were doing the dirty work for them. I just wonder if they fell into a trap set up by China, or simply thought they had the policitical power to erase these people from the records. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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There is a joke the Uyghurs tell:
Two men are having a discussion. One says to the other, "There are Chinese everywhere: in Xinjiang, in America, in Canada, in England. Is there anywhere in the world there are no Chinese?"
"I know of someplace," says his friend.
"Really? Where?"
"My house."
I first heard this while waiting for a bus during a recent trip to Xinjiang. It was to take me to the oasis town of Hotan on the southern tip of the Taklamakan Desert. |
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| "You do understand that the Uyghurs and the Chinese are two different people, right? This is us, the Uyghurs." A fist held in front of the body. "And this is the Chinese." A cupped hand over top of the fist. |
http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/webfeatures/2001/10/priniotakis-m-10-19.html |
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