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| China urges Canada to refuse Gitmo Uighurs | |
| 2009-02-07 | |
| China urged Canada Thursday not to take three Uighur Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay saying they are "terrorists" and should be left to international law as a leading human rights organization accused China of omitting mention of serious rights abuses against the Uighur minority. The three Uighur Muslims, whose lawyers have filed applications for refugee status in Canada, are among a group of 17 Uighurs captured in the wake of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo for the past seven years.
"We hope the parties concerned can resolve conveniently this issue according to the international laws and regulations." Uighurs, who are mostly Muslim, form the largest ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang region that borders Central Asia. Some hope for independence from China. Jiang was asked to comment on an appeal from Amnesty International, a Canadian Uighur group and several churches for Canada's government to take in the three Uighurs. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The first thing China will do is harvest every usable organ from their bodies and toss what's left out for the hogs to eat. They'd do that with any other non-Chinese they decided had made them angry, and a few Chinese. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-02-07 21:16 |
| #1 Right. Let China repatriate them. Let them work their magic in "re-educating" them. They seem to deal fairly effectively with the Wiggers. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-02-07 12:14 |