World | November 7, 2013
Tiananmen Attack Linked to Police Raid on a Mosque in Xinjiang
(NYT)
A former local official said the driver of the vehicle that crashed and burned at Tiananmen Square may have sought revenge for the demolition of parts of new mosque that he had helped finance.
World | November 4, 2013
Uighur Scholar in Ugly Confrontation With Security Agents
(NYT)
Ilham Tohti, arguably China’s most vocal advocate for the rights of its Uighur minority, said security agents in Beijing rammed his car, threatened to kill his wife and children and told him to stop speaking to foreign reporters.
World | November 3, 2013
China Strips Army Official of Position After Attack
(NYT)
Gen. Peng Yong, an army chief in Xinjiang, lost his post on a Communist Party governing body after what was described as a terrorist attack.
World | October 31, 2013
China Says Terror Group Was Behind Tiananmen Attack
(NYT)
A Chinese official said the deadly attack that killed five people was instigated by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
World | October 31, 2013
Q. & A.: Philip Potter on the Growing Risk of Terrorism in China
(NYT)
The relative openness of Chinese society in its eastern cities, coupled with a highly authoritarian approach to western regions, may provide incentives to militants to stage attacks in population centers in the east, where targets are less secure and
World | October 30, 2013
5 Suspects Are Held in Attack in Beijing
(NYT)
Investigators say they recovered a banner with “religious extremist messages” from the car used in a suicide attack at the foot of the Tiananmen Gate that killed five people.
World | October 29, 2013
China Focuses on an Ethnic Minority in a Car Explosion
(NYT)
Security in the capital was tightened amid suspicions that the episode was a protest against China’s hard-line policies toward Uighurs.
World | October 7, 2013
Uighurs in China Say Bias Is Growing
(NYT)
The Uighurs, a Muslim people who make up the largest ethnic group in the Xinjiang region, complain of barriers to employment and the free exercise of religion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/world/asia/uighurs-in-china-say-bias-is-growing.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Uighurs in China Say Bias Is Growing
these and dozens of other job openings share one caveat: ethnic Uighurs, the Muslim, Turkic-speaking people who make up nearly 90 percent of Kashgar’s population, need not apply. Roughly half of the 161 positions advertised on the Civil Servant Examination Information Web site indicate that only ethnic Han Chinese or native Mandarin speakers will be considered.
Such discrimination, common across the region, is one of the many indignities China’s 10 million Uighurs face in a society that increasingly casts them as untrustworthy and prone to religious extremism. Uighurs are largely frozen out of the region’s booming gas and oil industry, airport jobs are mostly reserved for Han applicants, and truck drivers whose national identity cards list their ethnicity as Uighur cannot obtain the licenses required to haul fuel, an unwritten rule based on the fear that oil and gas tankers could easily be turned into weapons, according to several trucking companies.
...Top government positions as well as critical spots in the sprawling security apparatus are dominated by Han Chinese, many of them recruited from the eastern half of the country. “The bottom line is that the Chinese don’t trust us, and that is having a corrosive impact on life in Xinjiang,”
The Chinese government blames outside agitators, among them members of a separatist movement it contends has links to global jihadists, for much of the unrest. While there have been a number of unprovoked attacks on Chinese police officers or soldiers in recent years, most experts say the threat from Islamic militants is far less potent and organized than that portrayed by Beijing...
Many Uighurs are also convinced that Beijing is seeking to wipe out their language and culture through assimilation and education policies that favor Mandarin over Uighur in schools and government jobs. ...
World | September 18, 2013
12 Are Killed in Raid by Security Forces in Western China
(NYT)
The killings took place in the restive Xinjiang region as the police raided what they called a terrorist hub, according to a report Wednesday by Radio Free Asia.
PressTV - China: International terror group behind deadly violence ...
Jul 03, 2013 · Steven Ribet, Press TV, Beijing. ... China says an international terror group is behind violence in its far western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, ...state-controlled Global Times reported on an organization called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which it said is trying to create an independent state. The group, it said, has been recruiting ethnic Uyghurs while abroad in Turkey, sending them to gain combat experience fighting against the government in Syria, and then sending them back to commit terror attacks in their home region...35 people were killed last Wednesday in an attack on government buildings in a remote Xinjiang township, and two days later more than 100 people riding motorbikes and wielding knives staged another attack on a police station in the city of Hotan.July 5 this week marks the anniversary of ethnic rioting in the provincial capital Urumqi, which in 2009 left nearly 200 people dead.PressTV - Chinese Communist Party Congress enters second day
Nov 09, 2012 · Steven Ribet, Press TV, Beijing. Share ... four people were hacked to death in an attack on a Han Chinese restaurant in the heavily Uyghur city of Kashgar.
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