The death toll from riots on Sunday, May 2nd 2010... has risen to 140. ...Riots began in the regional capital of Urumqi on Sunday when a group of protesters demanded an investigation into the deaths of two ethnic Uighurs killed in a fight with Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in late June... Xinhua said protesters from the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority group began attacking ethnic Han pedestrians, burning vehicles and attacking buses with batons and rocks.
Chinese authorities said the unrest had been "instigated" by forces outside of China... general secretary of the Uighur American Association in Washington Alim Seytoff as saying that police had begun "indiscriminately" shooting at protesting crowds.
Xinjiang's eight million Uighurs have complained of political, cultural and religious persecution by Beijing and there have been repeated calls by Uighurs for independence.
True to form, the Progressive blogosphere is also silent on the matter, presumably because they're scouring back issues of Der Stürmer for reprint rights.
After all, it's only 140 dead Muslims. And since the news can't be used to undermine America's only true ally in the Middle East, these reports are useless to the Left.
2 comments:
Helen Thomas could not be reached for comment. Thank God.
You need to get better sources. Those riots actually happened LAST year (July 2009), not on May 2nd, and they got plenty of international press. I don't know how on earth the International Business Journal got their info...they need to fire their editor.
Here's the actual info on the Urumqi riots. I know because I was there.
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