[DAWN] Malaysia has freed from detention 11 ethnic Uighur Moslems who fled to the southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak last year, and sent them to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , their lawyer said on Thursday, in disregard of China’s request to hand them to Beijing.
The move is likely to strain ties with China, already tested since Mahathir Mohamad became prime minister after a stunning election victory in May and cancelled more than $20 billion worth of projects awarded to Chinese companies.
Prosecutors in Moslem-majority Malaysia dropped charges against the Uighurs on humanitarian grounds and they arrived in Turkey after flying out of Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, their lawyer, Fahmi Moin, said.
"The charges were withdrawn because the attorney general’s chambers agreed to the [appeal] from our side," he told Rooters.
The men were detained and charged with illegally entering Malaysia after last November’s daring prison break, by punching holes in a prison wall and using blankets as ladders.
In February, Rooters reported that Malaysia was under great pressure from China to deport the men there, citing sources. Some Western missions sought to dissuade it from sending them to China, which has been accused of persecuting Uighurs.
Beijing accuses separatist turbans among the Uighur minority of plotting attacks on China’s Han majority in Xinjiang and elsewhere.
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Well, China DOES persecute Uighurs. Of course a significant number of Uighurs are Muslim fanatics. And others are Uighur nationalists, so one can understand China's position. I don't know if THESE Uighurs fit either of those categories.
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I'm of the opinion that if china wasn't busily attempting to greatly dilute the Uighur population by "immigration" of Han Chinese into the Uighur homeland this situation wouldn't exist as it now does.
More evidence of the yellow peril's superiority complex.
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In the Malaysian Emergency (1948-1960): "The Party retreated to the jungle and formed the Malayan Peoples’ Liberation Army, with about 13,000 men under arms, all Chinese." ...All Chinese...
Some Bad Blood there, and sympathy for someone else invaded by the Chinese...
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Reconciliation Center issued a statement on Wednesday blaming western states for terrorist groups obtaining chemical weapons in Syria.
According to the Chief of the Russian Reconciliation Center, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko, Western states are planning to use groups affiliated with them to stage a chemical attack and accuse the Syrian governmental forces committing it.
The Russian official said that these acts are irresponsible and they allowed ISIS (ISIS) to obtain toxic substances.
Savchenko’s statements came after reports of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bandidosLions of Islam seizing chemical weapons from their jihadist adversaries in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate.
Savchenko added that the stolen cylinders were transported to the Aleppo countryside and they were handed to a group of Hurras al-Din (Guardians of Religion) which is affiliated to ISIS terrorist organization.
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Well, where did Saddam and Pencilneck get their ingrediants?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. is attempting to establish an illegal entity east of the Euphrates River, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
The Russian Foreign Minister said that the U.S. attempting to create a group to fight the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and their allies, including the Iranian-backed forces.
Lavrov did not specify what this entity is going to be comprised of, nor did he mention the basis of this information.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Lavrov’s comments come just days after his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo said that the Washington has two main goals in Syria: 1) defeat the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and 2) force the withdrawal of the Iranian forces and their allies.
The U.S. and Iranian forces have rarely come across one another in Syria, but Washington is concerned about Tehran’s continued presence inside the country, as it threatens Israel’s safety.
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Why are we doing Israel's work for them? Let them spend their own money and blood on a meaningless conflict.
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[An Nahar] Not far from where he used to live, Paleostinian engineer Mahmud Khaled watched as bulldozers rumbled back and forth scooping up smashed concrete from the devastated streets of Syria's Yarmuk.
Once home to 160,000 Paleostinian refugees, the camp in the Damascus suburbs has been emptied of its inhabitants and pounded to rubble in Syria's seven-year war.
But five months after regime forces expelled the last jihadists in the area, soldiers now stand guard at the camp's entrance, wearing face masks to protect themselves against the dust billowing up into the air.
On a narrow street inside the camp where he grew up, Khaled has returned to help oversee bulldozers and diggers engaged in joint Paleostinian-Syrian clean-up operations.
"When we first entered, we were horrified by what we saw," said the 56-year-old engineer, wearing a light grey and white checkered shirt.
"But after we started the clean-up, it all started to look up," Khaled said.
Off Yarmuk's main artery, recently cleared side streets are flanked by buildings ravaged by years of fighting.
Some have been reduced to mountains of grey rubble and mangled rebar. In others, entire floors dangle dangerously downwards, their steel rods jutting out.
"We have shifted 50,000 cubic metres of rubble and reopened all the main roads," Khaled said.
But "it will be a while before families can come back", he added.
As Khaled surveyed the neighbourhood, a yellow bulldozer spilled rubble into a large red truck behind him.
Tens of thousands have fled Yarmuk since Syria's conflict started in 2011 and government forces imposed a crippling siege on the then rebel-held camp a year later.
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It's a Paleo camp. Rubble is their national crop
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Wait! There's hope:
"But the rebuilding is still awaiting a government decision," he said... "Perhaps I will never see it completely rebuilt."
[An Nahar] From kidnappings for ransom to armed robberies and torture: residents of Syria's Afrin region say they are suffering a litany of abuses at the hands of Ottoman Turkish-backed rebels.
They say the fear of harassment has kept them shuttered inside their homes since Ankara and its Arab rebel allies overran the then overwhelmingly Kurdish city in March after a two-month air and ground offensive.
Their testimonies, given under pseudonyms because of fear of retribution, paint a picture of a chaotic city with little protection for civilians.
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