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Central Asia
China urged to grant Uighurs freedom
2003-12-21
A Muslim separatist group branded as "terrorists" by China has said it was willing to disband if the communist state offered freedom of expression and internet access to Uighur Muslim minorities.
"We need access to internet sites for titties. None of us has seen the Paris Hilton video. If that ain't oppression, I dunno what is!"
The Munich-based East Turkistan Information Centre (ETIC) was set up in 1996 by Uighurs living in Germany to provide information to Uighurs living in northwest China's Xinjiang region, its spokesman Dilxat Raxit said. Its aim was also to expose the government's abuses of Uighurs' rights, he told AFP during a telephone conversation on Sunday. "If the Chinese government thinks we're inciting activities from overseas in the mainland, we hope the Chinese government will allow press freedom, allow foreign journalists to freely report in Xinjiang and allow international rights rapporteur to investigate in the jails without any obstacles," Raxit said. "And if Uighurs can have Internet freedom, then there's no reason why we need to exist. We will then disband."
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#6  mom, dunno if Han Chinese are racist, but the govt is. They've been consistently colonial in moving the ethnic boundary outward, swamping by weight of numbers. Nothing new, really. Mao's children are just the current dynasty of the Middle Kingdom.

otoh, I'm generally in favor of titties. They're both asethetically pleasing and useful.
Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds)   2003-12-21 9:05:38 PM  

#5  I've always wanted to say this (actually, I already have to my mom, and she got it):

mom - chill. It's just werdz. It's either just vibrations in the air or contrasting pixels or ink stains. It has no meaning, no heat, no impact, no offense, other that what you assign to it of your own volition. Got a problem? Find a mirror. Post your thoughts on the topic in any vernacular you desire. Save the finger wag for those over which you exercise your (if a parent as implied) God-like influence. Else you risk the same loss of communication, i.e. your message being lost in the debris of the trivial criticism, that you derided Fred for doing. It was apropos and relevant. That's my opinion and it's very very true. Just ask me.

BTW, your point regards the Han and Uighur as appreciated. Thx and Have a Nice Life.
Posted by: .com   2003-12-21 7:38:37 PM  

#4  China should declare Xinjian (East Turkmenistan) and Tibet to be semi-Autonomous areas like Hong Kong. This would solve a lot of their troubles and might bring the Dali Lama around onto their side.

Oh, they should also declare Taiwan to have the exact same status even though they don't really control the territory. That way the whole thing helps to push the fiction of one China.
Posted by: ruprecht   2003-12-21 7:20:08 PM  

#3  correction: Fred, YOUR comment, not Ed's, was inappropriate.
Posted by: mom   2003-12-21 5:30:57 PM  

#2  Some friends of ours worked among the Uighurs for several years. You may be interested to know that the Han Chinese are among the most racist tribes in the world, and the Uighurs have suffered under their domination for centuries. In the last century, Han,the enormous majority ethnic group in China, have moved into Uighur territory and taken most of the good jobs and housing. Communist policies suppressed a lot of the local culture.

The Uighur's brand of Islam is not yet, as far as I have heard, infected with the terrorist germ yet; but Chinese policies give the terrorists a favorable audience.

Ed, your comment on "titties" is not appropriate in this case. Other Rantburgers: Please leave the swearing to John Kerry and the invective to the other loonies. Thank you.
Posted by: mom   2003-12-21 5:29:26 PM  

#1  Re> internet access

The Uighurs want a piece of the international spam market.
Posted by: ed   2003-12-21 1:53:24 PM  

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