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| Tweet Topic Started: Fri Nov 8, 2013 8:27 pm (262 Views) | |
| Flipzi | Fri Nov 8, 2013 8:27 pm Post #1 |
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Chinese police arrest local man over deadly blasts in Shanxi POSTED: 08 Nov 2013 12:22 Police have detained a local man over a series of deadly blasts that struck near a provincial headquarters of China's ruling Communist Party, just over a week after a fiery attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that was blamed on Uighur separatists. BEIJING: Chinese police on Friday detained a local thief over deadly blasts that struck near a provincial Communist Party headquarters, just over a week after a fiery attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that was blamed on Uighur separatists. The man's capture, reported by state media, comes one day ahead of a highly anticipated meeting of top party leaders in Beijing. While a potential motive remained unclear, details of the attack suggest anger at the local government could have been behind the bombings. Protests in China -- on a host of issues including local corruption, land seizures, environmental policy, and labour rights -- are estimated to top 180,000 a year, even as the government devotes vast sums to "stability maintenance". The apprehended suspect was named as Feng Zhijun, a 41-year-old ex-convict and resident of the city of Taiyuan where the explosions took place, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing Shanxi province's Public Security Department. Feng was captured at 2:00am on Friday (1800 GMT Thursday) and has admitted to the blasts, Xinhua said, which killed one person and wounded eight others on November 6 near the party provincial commission in Taiyuan. Feng previously served nine years in prison for theft, the news agency said. Police found a "large amount of evidence," including self-made bombs in Feng's car and home in Taiyuan's Xinghualing district, Xinhua said. Large metal ball bearings and circuit boards were found at the scene of the multiple blasts on Wednesday morning, suggesting the use of home-made devices intended to inflict maximum damage. The explosions came a little over a week after a fiery attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square that killed three tourists and wounded dozens at the symbolic heart of the Chinese state. Beijing described the Tiananmen incident as a "terror attack" carried out by members of the Uighur minority from northwest Xinjiang with links to a separatist group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. By contrast, details of the Taiyuan attack suggest it could have been motivated by local grievances. The first bomb that went off was detonated near the gate of an office where residents with complaints against the local government can file petitions, according to The Mirror, a Beijing-based newspaper. The street where the explosions happened was also the scene of a protest by some 200 laid-off workers last week, according to microblog postings. Legal paths for pursuing justice in China are limited, as courts are subject to political influence and corruption, and citizens who lodge complaints against authorities often end up in detention. Disgruntled citizens have staged several incidents elsewhere in the country in recent years. In June, a street vendor set fire to a bus in Xiamen in east China's Fujian province, killing himself and nearly four-dozen passengers in an act of retaliation against local authorities. One of the highest-profile cases came in July, when Ji Zhongxing, a wheelchair-bound man from southern China, detonated a homemade bomb at Beijing's international airport in a protest against alleged police brutality. Ji was sentenced last month to six years in jail, a punishment that triggered a wave of public sympathy among users of China's popular online social networks. - AFP/fa http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/chinese-police-arrest/879204.html?cid=FBINT |
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| Flipzi | Tue May 6, 2014 3:16 pm Post #2 |
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A bombing in China’s Xinjiang province By Peter Symonds 6 May 2014 A bombing in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang last week left three people dead—including two alleged perpetrators—and 79 more injured. The government blamed ethnic Uighur separatists and offered a reward of 100,000 yuan ($US16,000) for information about the activities of the two suspects. The attack took place at the crowded railway station in the provincial capital, Urumqi, on the evening of April 30, just before the country’s May Day holiday weekend. According to the state-run Xinhua news agency, the two men attacked travellers with knives before setting off an explosive device. One of the assailants was named as Sedirdin Sawut from Aksu prefecture in southern Xinjiang. The blast created chaos. Emergency services and armed police arrived shortly after the explosion and evacuated people from the square in front of the station. The area was condoned off for several hours, before the station was re-opened under heavy police guard. The bombing took place as Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first tour of Xinjiang. He had visited a mosque in Urumqi just hours earlier. Xi denounced the attack, declaring that he would “resolutely suppress the terrorists’ rampant momentum.” Xi made similar remarks to a study session of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo in Beijing on April 26. He warned that the “country is facing increasing threats and challenges to our national security and increasing threats to our social stability.” While not specifically referring to Uighurs or Tibetans, Xi called on officials to “properly resolve disputes affecting national unity and resolutely curb and combat hostile forces from outside and inside the country from using the ethnic issue to engage in separatist, infiltration and sabotage activities.” Xi’s comments followed a knife attack in March at Kunming railway station in southwestern China, in which 29 travellers and employees were killed and more than 130 injured. Chinese authorities blamed Uighur separatists associated with the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). Last October, a car containing three Uighurs exploded near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, killing the occupants and two pedestrians. No organisation claimed responsibility for either incident, or for last week’s attack in Urumqi. Xi’s reference to hostile forces “outside” China reflects growing fears in the CCP regime that the US will exploit separatist movements among China’s ethnic minorities to destabilise and divide the country. US agencies, including the CIA, have longstanding links to various Uighur exile organisations, such as the Uighur American Association and the World Uighur Congress, which is based in Germany. Both organisations disclaim any connection to the ETIM. Beijing’s fears have only been heightened by the US-led intervention in Ukraine that engineered the ousting of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych by extreme Ukrainian nationalist and fascist organisations. While declaring itself neutral in Washington’s confrontation with Moscow, Beijing is clearly concerned at the potential for the US to manipulate ethnic divisions inside China. The Chinese foreign ministry reacted angrily to a US State Department annual report on terrorism, released last Thursday, which criticised the lack of cooperation and information from Beijing and questioned China’s claims of Uighur terrorism. “Chinese authorities labeled several incidents of violence involving members of the Uighur minority as acts of terrorism. In general, Chinese authorities did not provide detailed evidence of terrorist involvement,” the report stated. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang pointed to the hypocrisy of the United States, which routinely brands incidents and organisations as “terrorist” to suit Washington’s policy requirements. “On the question of anti-terrorism, making irresponsible remarks towards other countries and holding ‘double standards’ will not help international cooperation,” Qin declared. However, the CCP’s discriminatory treatment of ethnic minorities and the use of police-state methods to suppress discontent play directly into Washington’s hands. Ethnic Uighurs, who are Turkic and mainly Muslim, have been marginalised economically as the government has sought to open up Xinjiang and exploit its energy and mineral resources. Beijing’s promotion of Han Chinese nationalism has only further alienated Uighur, Tibetan and other ethnic minorities. Australian academic Jim Leibold, who is currently based in Beijing, told the Sydney Morning Herald that the Chinese leadership has “clearly been doubling down on Xinjiang,” as evidenced by a quadrupling of the Xinjiang security budget since 2009, intensifying bilingual education and the dispatch of 200,000 CCP cadres to the province. In his comments to the Politburo study session, President Xi declared that a public climate had to be created to “make terrorists become like rats scurrying across a street, with everybody shouting ‘beat them’.” Such remarks will only encourage suspicion, prejudice and hostility toward Uighurs. In July 2009, the deaths of two Uighur workers in a brawl inside a factory in the eastern province of Guangdong provoked violent protests in Urumqi. The US continues to exploit these ethnic tensions by posturing as an opponent of Beijing’s cultural oppression of minorities and providing financial assistance to organisations such as the World Uighur Congress. A comment in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, entitled “China’s Terrorism Problem,” hinted at Washington’s underlying motive when it referred to last week’s bombing as “the latest evidence that China is neither as stable or harmonious as Beijing would have you believe.” https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/05/06/xinj-m06.html |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Tue May 6, 2014 3:17 pm Post #3 |
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Xinjiang bombing reflects China’s flawed policy toward minorities May 05, 2014 China has been hit by a string of violent incidents linked to problems concerning ethnic minorities in the country. Last week, a bombing incident in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, caused many casualties. The two suspects, who both died, were reportedly Uighur men. The attack came at the conclusion of a four-day visit to Xinjiang by President Xi Jinping. During his inspection tour in the region, Xi urged local officials to make every possible effort to ensure public safety. The timing and location of the attack appear to signal a bold challenge to the Xi administration. It is infuriating that the attack, carried out in front of a train station, a public place, caused casualties among innocent citizens who happened to be there at the time. Such indiscriminate terrorism, whatever the purpose may be, is absolutely unpardonable. Having said that, we want to pose a question to the Chinese government. Why do incidents of violence related to Uighurs keep occurring so frequently even though successive governments in Beijing have pledged to respect the rights of ethnic minorities as their policy? In another incident last autumn that is still fresh in our memories, a car with three members of a Uighur family inside plowed into Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Since then, reported incidents related to Uighurs have taken place at a rate of about one a month. These gloomy episodes indicate a failure of the policy toward ethnic minorities adopted by the Communist Party administration, which is composed mainly of Han Chinese, who constitute 90 percent of the country’s population. Every time such an incident happens, the Chinese government describes the culprits as “violent elements seeking to break up China while acting in concert with an organization based overseas.” By issuing such statements, Chinese leaders are effectively claiming that the government is making ardent efforts to promote economic development of Xinjiang, and that its policy toward Uighurs is working. Beijing is trying to characterize the perpetrators of these incidents as heretics isolated in society. Indeed, there has been a movement for political independence among Uighurs. There is also an organization to promote the movement outside China. But these facts do not necessarily support the argument that all these incidents were politically motivated. Many of the reported incidents were apparently triggered by troubles concerning the daily lives of Uighur people. Last summer, for example, a standoff between locals and police turned violent in Hotan, a city in Xinjiang. The Chinese government described that incident as rioting by an armed group. But it was actually a disturbance triggered by the move of local authorities to shut down a mosque used by Uighurs. The family that carried out the Tiananmen Square attack last autumn is said to have repeatedly filed complaints with the local authorities over a certain problem. It seems there is deep distrust between authorities and Uighurs stemming from administrative problems. The distrust will only grow if, under these circumstances, the Chinese government tramples on the social and religious customs of Uighurs under the pretext of anti-terrorist measures. The situation cannot improve as long as this cycle of terrorism and suppression continues. What China, as a multiracial nation, needs now to ensure social stability is not the use of force but a wise and effective policy to bring about reconciliation. --The Asahi Shimbun, May 4 http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201405050024 |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Thu May 8, 2014 7:30 pm Post #4 |
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![]() photo shared by: South China Sea News that Matters page Uyghur Petitioners Beaten, Detained Over Land Grab 2014-05-07 Hundreds of Uyghur farmers in the northernmost part of China’s Xinjiang region have been forced to sell their land at low prices for Chinese development schemes, with those refusing to sign compensation contracts beaten and detained by police assigned to enforce the deals, according to sources. The forced land sale over the last three years in Kunes County’s Toqay village in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture has stripped many of property they have owned for generations, leaving them unable to find adequate housing, one farmer told RFA’s Uyghur Service this week. “We have lost our traditional houses, yards, gardens, and fertile agricultural lands,” said Hashimjan Awut, whose land was taken from him by authorities after he refused to sign it away. Dispossessed farmers have now been forced to buy apartments in high-rise buildings, but these cost more than the money gained from the coerced sale of their former property, Awut said, adding, “How can we live without land?” ... Read more at http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/land-05072014144335.html |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Fri May 23, 2014 1:55 am Post #5 |
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Explosions at Urumqi market cause deaths, injuries By Xinhua | Thursday, May 22, 2014, 09:28 | China Daily Asia URUMQI - An unknown number of people were killed and injured after explosions occurred Thursday morning at an open market in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. All the injured were rushed to several hospitals, police said. Witnesses said two cross-country vehicles driving from north to south ploughed into people in the market at 7:50 a.m. Explosives were thrown out of the vehicles. One of the vehicles exploded in the market. A business runner in the market told Xinhua he heard a dozen of big bangs. The open air morning market is located near the Renmin Park in downtown Urumqi. Ambulance and police cars are parking at the entrance of Park North Street leading to the market. Flames and heavy smoke were seen. The scene has been cordoned off. Source: http://www.chinadailyasia.com/news/2014-05/22/content_15136440.html ![]() ![]() ![]() photos shared by: South China Sea News that Matters page |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Fri May 23, 2014 1:57 am Post #6 |
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![]() photo shared by: Philippine Navy 2020's Page Deadly blast hits China's Xinjiang region An unknown number of people have been killed and injured in an attack on an open-air market in Urumqi, capital of the restive Chinese region of Xinjiang which is home to mostly Muslim Uighurs, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Two off-road vehicles ploughed into people at the market on Wednesday and explosives were thrown out of the cars, one of which exploded, Xinhua said citing witnesses. A small business owner told Xinhua he had heard a dozen big bangs. China has blamed a chain of knife and bomb attacks in recent months on separatists from Xinjiang. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/05/deadly-blast-hits-china-xinjiang-region-201452221822193401.html Xinjiang has been plagued by violence for years, but rights activists and exile groups say the government's own heavy-handed policies in the region have sowed the seeds of unrest. |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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| Flipzi | Mon May 26, 2014 11:31 pm Post #7 |
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China busts 23 'terror, religious extremism' groups - Xinhua BEIJING Mon May 26, 2014 9:40am BST | Reuters (Reuters) - Chinese police in the far western region of Xinjiang have taken down 23 "terror and religious extremism groups" and caught more than 200 suspects in May, state media said, days after the region's deadliest attack in years. China has announced year-long "anti-terrorism" operations in restive Xinjiang, home to a large Muslim Uighur minority, as well as nationwide, following a series of bloody incidents that Beijing blames on Islamists and separatists from the region. Police busted the groups in the southern Xinjiang prefectures of Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu and seized more than 200 explosive devices in raids, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Sunday. Many of those captured were in their 20s and 30s, and had learned how to make explosives by watching online videos, Xinhua said. "They exchanged their experiences of making explosives and propagating jihad through chatting tools, text messages and illegal preaching sites," the news agency said, citing the regional public security department. China has said five suicide bombers carried out an attack at a morning vegetable market in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi on Thursday, which killed 31 people and injured 94. It was the second attack in Urumqi in just over three weeks, after a bomb went off at a train station in late April, killing a bystander and wounding 79. "[We] must truly turn violent terrorists into rats scurrying across the street, with everyone shouting to beat them down," state media cited Zhang Chunxian, the ruling Communist Party chief in Xinjiang, as saying at a Sunday meeting on the latest Urumqi attack. At least 180 people have been killed in attacks across China over the past year. Beijing warns that separatist groups in Xinjiang are seeking to form their own state called East Turkestan. But exiles and rights groups say the real cause of the unrest in the resource-rich region bordering central Asia is China's repressive policies that put curbs on Islam and the culture of Uighurs, Muslims who speak a Turkic language. Uighurs have long complained of official discrimination in favour of the Han, China's majority ethnic group. Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/05/26/uk-china-xinjiang-idUKKBN0E607T20140526 |
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Alfred Alexander L. Marasigan Manila, Philippines getflipzi@yahoo.com http://z6.invisionfree.com/flipzi " Sovereignty resides in the people and all government authority emanates from them!" " People don't care what we know until they know we care." | |
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