China treats Uighurs like Tibetans (video)

John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, HBO, 7/26/20); CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

First China hit Tibetans, now Muslim Uighurs

This giant area, Xinjiang, is where Uighurs live.

XINJIANG, China - John Oliver discusses the severe human rights abuses against the Uighur people, whose land in the northwest was incorporated to be part of the Han people's China. Uyghurs (\wee-gers\) are facing at the hands of the Chinese capitalist-communist government, and why these atrocities are worth our undivided attention.

It wasn't just us. Now the Uighurs are getting it.

For just as Tibet was invaded, occupied, and dismantled with its population ethnically cleansed or disappeared, there is a target on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and other territories and minorities who are not Han Chinese.

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(BBC) A Chinese court has sentenced a further six people to death over ethnic unrest in the far-western region of Xinjiang in July, state-run media report. Nearly 200 people were killed during riots between ethnic Uighurs and members of China's dominant Han group. More>>

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MT. FUJI, Japan (AFP) — Tibetan exiles and their Japanese supporters made a pilgrimage up Mount Fuji on Saturday to pray for world peace and call for freedom for themselves and other minorities in China [notably its oppressed Uighurs]. "Today there are a lot of problems in China, not just in Tibet but also in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia," said Lhakpa Tshoko, the Japan and East Asia repre-sentative of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. "The nature of suffering we are enduring is the same, so we are also praying for our brothers and sisters in those regions," he said. More>>

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China's Uighur "plight similar to Tibet"

China admits killing its ethnic Uighurs during recent riots in Xinjiang province (BBC)

An exiled leader of China's Uighur ethnic minority, Rebiya Kadeer, has given a speech in Australia despite pressure from Chinese diplomats not to. Speaking at Australia's National Press Club in Canberra, she compared the plight of her people to the Tibetans. China says that Mrs. Kadeer was behind ethnic unrest in July in Xinjiang region, home to the [Islamic] Uighur minority, in which at least 197 people died.

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She denies being involved in the worst ethnic unrest in China for decades. "The situation of Uighur people is very similar to the situation of the Tibetans," she said. "We suffer the same suffering, under the same government, and it has been a long while that the Uighur people have not been able to raise our voice in the world as much as our Tibetan brothers did." More>>

BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS

• China's tinderbox Ethnic riots shatter Chinese government myth of social harmony
• Xinjiang violence: Views from China
• Ethnic tensions taboo in China
• Uighur resentment at Beijing's rule
• Q&A: China and the Uighurs

Tibetan Buddhists support Muslim Uighurs

Exiled Tibetans participate in a candlelit vigil in Dharmsala, India on July 9, 2009 expressing solidarity with the Uighurs in China's Xinjiang province. Hundreds of Tibetans gathered to protest the violence towards Uighurs i "East Turkestan." At least 156 people were killed and more than 1,100 hurt Sunday. Uighurs say security forces gunned down many of those killed (AP/Ashwini Bhatia). MORE PHOTOS

• Slideshow: Ethnic riots spread in China
• Video: "Uneasy calm" in Urumqi (BBC)
• Video: Thousands flee Urumqi after ethnic violence (AFP)

URUMQI, China – Boisterous crowds turned up at mosques in riot-hit parts of this western Chinese city, ignoring orders canceling Friday prayers due to the ethnic violence that killed 184, and police quickly broke up a small protest nearby.

Nearly a week after riots by Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang province unleashed a massive security response, the U.S. national security adviser told Chinese diplomats on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Italy that President Barack Obama expects Beijing to act with "appropriate restraint."

Chinese security forces get ready for the day with guns, batons, and tear gas ammunition around the ethnic Uighur's area in Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 10, 2009 (AFP).

Late Friday, officials provided the first ethnic breakdown of the deaths in the fighting. The official Xinhua News Agency reported that

• 137 of the victims belonged to the dominant Han Chinese ethnic group.

The Han victims included 111 men and 26 women, the report said. The rest of the deaths were

• 45 men and one woman who were Uighurs along with
• 1 man of the Hui ethnic group

Xinhua said, citing the information office of the regional government. The report said the total death toll rose from 156 to 184. [Now women are leading the protests.] More>>