Tag Archives : Xinjiang

As it did in Tibet, the Chinese leadership is repressing the disturbances hardly in Xinjiang. The Muslims Uigures of the area are feeling degraded and stolen of their culture while they suffer in their birthplace under the domain of Han Chinese ethnicity. Xinjiang (“new border”, in Chinese) is an enormous area that links China to Central [...]

The Chinese government said Thursday that have evidence that the organizers of the violent protests in Urumqi, in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, have involvement with al-Qaeda network and other militant groups. Despite the statements, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry, Qin Gang, presented no evidence that allegedly confirmed the allegations. [...]

A protest of Uigurs (Muslim ethnic minority) in western China has left at least 129 dead and 816 wounded since the beginning of this Sunday. The news agency Xinhua reports that the demonstrators took the streets protesting against the death of two of this Chinese ethnicity last week. The police estimated that up to 3,000 people have left the streets [...]