Further violence in Xinjiang
On 13 July, Chinese police shot and killed two Uighur men and injured another Uighur in Urumqi yesterday. Chinese state media reported that the police shot at the men “in an attempt to stop them from attacking one person” after firing warning shots. “All four people involved were of the Uighur ethnic group.”
Amnesty International calls on the Chinese authorities to refrain from using unnecessary and excessive force, and to not use the recent violence and unrest in Xinjiang as an excuse to launch increased crackdowns in the XUAR, as they have in the past. The organisation calls for a fair and impartial investigation to the unrest that broke out in the XUAR on 5 July and urges the authorities to respect and protect the rights to life and freedom from discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin by addressing abuses and violations of these rights by state and non-state actors.
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Kuranda Seyit | Posted on 17 July 2009, 07:01PM | Report comment
The killings are continuing, the Uyghurs are being terrorised in their own country. Vigilante groups, armed and encouraged by Chinese police are brutally beating Uyghurs in th streets and their homes, Uyghurs are also being shot and the they have no rights to worship in their mosques and many disappearances have occurred. The Australian government must call an end to the human rights abuses.
danielh17 | Posted on 15 July 2009, 10:29PM | Report comment
What has been occuring these past weeks in Xinjiang, as well as last years demonstrations in Tibet, have been deliberate attempts by the Chinese government to eradicate minority culture. Following their sending in of PLA troops in 1950 to the border regions (Tibet and Xinjiang) the Chinese Communist Party has attempted to flood both regions by forcibly moving large numbers of Han Chinese to these regions.
Furthermore, the Chinese government instituted Mandarin as the official language, and took over the education systems. This deliberate attempt to destroy Uighur and Tibetan culture and identity can easily be labelled as a modern day genocide. While the Chinese governemnt may dismiss these claims to thier allowance of minorities to have more than one child, the world should not be fooled.
China has and is deliberatly discriminating against it’s minorities and is attempting to erase them from their society.