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China flexes muscle in strife torn Xinjiang

Urumqi, China: Traffic and shopping resumed in Urumqi on Thursday after days of ethnic violence in the western city killed at least 156 people, and China's alarmed leaders vowed to punish those behind the attacks. The hundreds of troops that had camped out in the central part of the Xinjiang capital for the p ....Read more

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reply to aqmaminBy: rationalist | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 18:08:37 PM Reply | Forward No country can benefit by suppressing people's faith ? Maybe, but countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh have survived and apparently have a thriving terror industry which give employment to thousands after suppressing and murdering tens of thousands of their non Muslim citizens since 1947! Please explain !

Oil Reserves make nations play the geopolitical game but put the blame on religionsBy: aqmamin | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 15:33:46 PM Reply | Forward Beijing views the Uighur region as an invaluable asset because of its crucial strategic location near Central Asia and its large oil and gas reserves. American do have their eyes on it. The present American involvement in Afghanistan for the good of oil company called UNOCAL has the same purpose.Vast segments of the population lead subsistence lives little changed from 100 years ago, growing fruit or raising sheep or cattle. They are simple and innocent. With a dawn-to-dusk curfew, internet blackout, blocking graphic images of beaten and bloody bodies, bloggers and social-networking websites are giving voice to China's several-million Muslim Uighurs in the face of a massive crackdown. Internet has been disconnected throughout Xinjiang, a sign that the Chinese government has and will murder many more innocent Uighurs. Exiled Uighur groups have blamed China for the death toll, saying the protests were peaceful until security forces over-reacted and fired indiscriminately at the crowds

No Country Can Benefit by Suppressing Peoples' FaithBy: aqmamin | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 15:30:22 PM Reply | Forward The 1948 Communist revolution proved to be a disaster for the Chinese Muslims, marking the beginning of repressive policies by successive regimes in China who continue to scuttle basic human rights in the county. 1959-1979: Religious practice was banned in totality. Many Imams and scholars were sent to notorious desert 'reform' camps - sometimes never to return. Muslim students were forced to drink water in Ramadhan before attending school, and were forced to feed pigs. Several mosques were converted or destroyed. Muslims were not allowed to go on pilgrimage to Mecca. The repression of Chinese Muslims continues. Even the slightest form of protest is crushed with brutal force. Several hundred Muslims have been either killed or wounded in this decade alone, and many remain unaccounted for. The troubles in the northwestern province of Xinjiang continue. As well, the government conducts nuclear tests in Muslim-dominated regions, thus putting the lives of millions of Muslims at great risk

Values which are never understood !By: chanakya | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 14:33:18 PM Reply | Forward Some elements never understand the value of liberty and always consider it as a passport to nefarious crimes. The coolness of govt is considered as weakness and they try sabotage peace in society. Authority will act definitely may be response time varies. Whether it is Russia or China or Jharkhand or Kashmir. Ultiately Law will be established with pain and bloodshed. No one need make a mistake about it.

Separatist By: Mahesh | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 12:05:10 PM Reply | Forward China has supported muslims separatists world over and has had a soft corner for Pakistan in this regard. They are now confronted with the same problem India has - hopefully they will relaize there is never a benefit in supporting such criminals like those creating havoc in China, anywhere else in the world also.

Flex musclesBy: Indi | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 11:53:07 AM Reply | Forward Can India flex muscles in Jammu and Kashmir against the terrorists and against maoists and naxalites else where in India?

disloyalty of moslem separatists are same as kashmiri separatistsBy: RAMESHDHIRU V.SHAH,LEICESTER | Thursday , 9 Jul '09 11:32:49 AM Reply | Forward These separatists are loyal to each other like sati savitri to satyavan but when the test comes to check their loyalty in the country they live in,they have their interests somewhere else.nothing good comes out from such relationship.china and india must make clear to separatists that they can leave the country if they are not going to be loyal.it is no different than marriage vows.