Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140
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bladerunner
Banned Idiot
That's understandable, far better to have one national language to reduce communication problems. Although it might be regarded as tokenism by the Uighurs and other minority groups in the region, perhaps the Central/regional authorities could encourage the teaching of the minority languages at, elementary level anyway, thus reducing the claim that they are stifling minority culture.
That is economic segregation is it not. Yes in a perfect world everyone speaking the same language would be great, but we don't live in a perfect world.
We live in a world were overbearing governments many bordering incompetence dispensing laws and regulations without to regard to their consequences.
When people protest against the actions of governments they are often suppressed unfortunately many times violently.
Allowing an act of Vigilante justice, which is how this sorry event happened are allowed to go unpunished will only fan the flames of discontent.
I don't doubt that many people on both sides of this disaster are to blame and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Let's not forget that the Communist government of china holds some responsibility for these problems.
What you do have to recognize here is that Chinese have settled in that area of the world before the Uighur have settled there. (In the latest round, the Manchus placed Uighur there to replace the Dzungar Mongols, then displaced Hui in the area after the Dungan revolt.) While the original inhabitants of the area moved on to bigger and brights things as Kushan rulers of India. The situation is have unlike the Muslims in the Balkans, or Goth and Vandals in Spain rather Indians in the Americas.
Yes and the Native American did not live in North America on till their Ancestors stumbled across the land bridge from modern day Russia.
Quickie
Colonel
Looking at the type of injuries on the dead bodies, it's clear the intention is not just to injure but to make a killing blow. This is a new form of terrorism and it's possible terrorist elements have premeditated this massacre in the name of so-called peaceful protest, and have infiltrated into the mob of protesters in order to terrorise and kill innocent civilians and bystanders.
bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Im in total agreement with you there.
Meanwhile here's a piece by Dr Jian Junbo assoc. prof. of University of, Shanghai, in the atimes. He presents a interesting theory for the underlying causes:
Engineer
Major
No. Again, it's a bad example. Your example ignored the fact that the native americans got to North America first, not the white people. The Uighur, however, wasn't the first to be in Xinjiang.
Comparing somethig that happened 50000 years ago with something that happened 250years ago? Something that happened naturly on a uninhabited land with something that the Qing dynasty purposely done? The Uigher were practically put into this so called "invaded homeland" of thiers by the Chinese Qing dynasty to replace the rebelled but failed mongols, who btw are also another invader, this is a chinese homeland, been part of China for a long consistent time alltheway until now, but in many westerners eye, after all the hostile and misleading antichinese news and "facts" the chinese are a invader, lol, how ironic.