Chinese crackdown on Uyghur groups cast as fight against 'terrorism'

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URUMQI, China--Armed police officers were on high alert around an empty, neglected building with peeling walls in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
“That building used to be very helpful for the livelihoods of many Uyghur people,” said a Uyghur woman in her 30s who once ran a store in the structure called the Rebiya Building.

Rebiya built the commercial building when she was a hugely successful businesswoman in Urumqi. But [I]her life took an unexpected and dramatic turn after she criticized the Chinese government’s policy toward Uyghurs in a speech in 1997.[/I]

She was arrested and jailed in 1999 and sent into exile in the United States in 2005. She has since been vilified by the Chinese Communist Party for instigating an anti-China secessionist movement.

The Chinese authority used to regard Rebiya as a model member of a racial minority group for the country. She even served as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

The CPPCC is a political advisory body that represents the country’s “patriotic united front.” It is the primary political framework used by the Communist Party to incorporate the views and opinions of patriotic figures in minority groups and various fields into the government’s policies under the principle of “multiparty cooperation.”

Speaking at a meeting with senior local party officials in Urumqi on June 29, Yu urged attendants to “remain prepared to crack down hard on terrorist crimes.”
China often uses the term “terrorist crimes” to describe such riots by Uyghurs to avoid highlighting the ethnic conflict and to cast the government’s crackdown as a “fight against terrorism.”

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Source: [url]http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201309060006[/url][/I]

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[B][I]HEYHEYHEY![/I][/B]

THAT'S OUR THING! DON'T COPY OUR BULLSHIT POLITICS TOO!

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The country often touts that they really 'unify' the many ethnic minorities that exist in China, but the fact that they can still crack down like this is sad.