In own `war on terrorism' China leans brutally on restive Muslim Uighur mi

[Rose Siding]

KASHGAR, China - Under the guise of a "war on terrorism," China has launched such an implacable campaign of repression on its Muslim Uighur minority that it's stopped cold nearly all violent attacks.


Not so long ago, far western China was roiled by more than 200 bombings and assassinations. More recently, a brutal crackdown reported by human rights groups has ushered in a measure of calm to remote, oil-rich Xinjiang.


China has shrugged off criticism and pledged anew to obliterate any glimmer of separatist sentiment within the ethnic Uighurs, who number about 8 million.


Today, the Uighurs (pronounced Weegers), who live in arid dun-colored towns and cities on the edge of the forbidding Taklimakan Desert, dwell in resentful coexistence with migrant Han Chinese flooding their homeland. They bristle at how China has restricted their religious freedom, yet fear to speak out amid the pervasive presence of security agents.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9742824.htm

[comradebillyboy]

1. its the traditional chinese approach, comply or die

[tmooses]

2. The new neo-con world order

Under the guise of "war on terrorism" you can do anything with impunity. Our best trading buddies-the Chinese. I'm surprised they don't call the Dalai Lama a terrorist.