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Rebiya Kadeer's visit to Adelaide 
Demonstration in Australia 
Meeting with Premier Rann
ETAA Conference in Adelaide 
ETAA members with Government Officials 
August 9th, 2011
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KASHGAR: Uighur merchant Obul Kasim carries emotional scars from his confrontation with an unbending government after he failed to save his 100-year-old mud-brick home from demolition, a victim of the urban renewal marching across the historic Silk Road.
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August 6th, 2011
BBC
By Michael Dillon Author of Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Far Northwest
Kashgar and Hotan, historic centres of Uighur and Islamic culture in the south of China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, have been the scene of recent bloodshed. ...Continue reading
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August 6th, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, August 5, 2011 BEIJING, China (AP)
Chinese Muslim militants have been to Taliban-controlled parts of neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan, but there is scant evidence supporting Chinese government claims that they returned home to carry out recent attacks ...Continue reading
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August 6th, 2011
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 5, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges an end to all violence and restrictions on peaceful religious activity in the Xinjiang Uighur Region ...Continue reading
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August 6th, 2011
06 August 2011, Saturday
TODAYS ZAMAN
Turkey has said in a statement that it is concerned over recent incidents in China’s restive Xinjiang region that has left several dead, calling to bring criminals before justice. ...Continue reading
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August 2nd, 2011
RFA
2011-08-01
Han Chinese in the western Kashgar city said they remained mostly indoors on Monday following deadly weekend attacks, as military personnel patrolled the streets and the government blamed “terrorists” trained in Pakistan for the violence. ...Continue reading
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August 2nd, 2011
The Wall Street Journal
AUGUST 1, 2011
China pointed a finger at Pakistan, one of its closest foreign partners, as it blamed one of two deadly weekend. ...Continue reading
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August 2nd, 2011
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Chinese authorities said Monday that Islamic radicals trained in Pakistan to wage “holy war” were responsible for attacks over the weekend in the western city of Kashgar that left at least 19 dead.
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August 2nd, 2011
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Three people, including one police officer, were killed when a bomb went off in Kashgar in western Xinjiang on Sunday afternoon. Four Uighur suspects were reported by China’s state media to have been shot dead by police following the blast.
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July 31st, 2011
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Eeurasia Review
By Sebastien Peyrouse for FRIDE
July 28, 2011
The death of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011 has once again put the media spotlight on Al-Qaeda. The movement’s weakening due to the loss of its main leader.
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July 31st, 2011
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The Economist
Jul 30th 2011
The situation in Xinjiang, said a Chinese foreign-ministry official in early July, is “good and stable”. Less than two weeks later, on July 18th, the restive region in China’s far west was again rocked by violence.
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July 31st, 2011
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The riot in the Uighur –dominated Hotan town of Xinjiang on 18 July 2011, resulting in loss of human lives (14 shot dead by Police and 4 others killed), has happened within few days after the second anniversary of the serious disturbances
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July 31st, 2011
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Who is Ershidin Israil? An Islamic terrorist? A brave journalist? Or a Chinese spy? This much appears to be clear. In 2009 after riots convulsed Xinjiang, the tumultuous northwestern region of China that is home to the ethnic Uighur people, the 38-year-old teacher.
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July 19th, 2011
An attack on a police station in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang left four people dead and one person critically injured, official media reported.
Xinjiang, where many Muslim Uyghurs chafe under Chinese rule, is no stranger to ethnic conflict. Deadly riots in the regional capital of Urumqi left at least 200 dead in July 2009. ...Continue reading
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July 19th, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, July 18, 2011
July 19 (Bloomberg) — Police gunned down rioters in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region yesterday, with the official state media and an organization representing the Uighur ethnic group giving conflicting accounts of the incident ...Continue reading
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July 17th, 2011
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“If China overnight adopted a democratic system, I might have some reservations.. . . If central authority collapsed, there could be a chaotic situation, and that’s in no one’s interest.”
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July 17th, 2011
Families of Uyghur political prisoners in northwestern China say their lives may be worse than those of their loved ones serving time in jail.
The families in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region complain they are constantly harassed by authorities, treated as outcasts by their communities, and reeling from financial problems.
Many of the political prisoners were the sole breadwinners of their households, and their absence has forced their family members to rely on handouts from fellow Uyghurs willing to risk political persecution for assisting them. ...Continue reading
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July 17th, 2011
KASHGAR, China — Visiting the neighbors isn’t easy when you live in Kyrgyzstan and they live in China’s Xinjiang Province.
But as a native of a village not far from the Kyrgyz-Chinese border who grew up hearing how my grandfather’s generation often visited back and forth, I wanted to see what was on the other side, too. ...Continue reading
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July 17th, 2011
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Ethnic minority Muslim high school students in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have been expelled from their school for attending a mosque, a Uyghur website reported this week.
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June 26th, 2011
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The latest exhibition in the Migration Museum’s Community Access Gallery, the Forum, celebrates Uighur people and culture in South Australia. The exhibition East Turkistan Uighur Culture – A history of the Uighur people of South Australia, is presented by the East Turkistan
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ETAA INVITES YOU TO THE Presentation Session FRIDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 2011 Windsor Gardens Community Hall Danby Avenue, Windsor Gardens SA 5087 ETAA INVITES YOU TO THE A Fun Day for All, Low Cost Cultural Foods & Drinks, Speeches, Entertaining Outdoor Activities, Performances ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12th 2011 THORNDON PARK RESERVE (Function Area, signs out) Location: Hamilton Terrace, PARADISE SA 5075 ETAA INVITES YOU TO THE A history & contribution of the Uighur people in Australia MIGRATION MUSEUM 10th JUNE 2011 to 9th SEPT 2011 OPENING CEREMONY AT 1.00PM SATURDAY 18th JUNE 2011
EAST TURKISTAN UNDER 62 YEARS OF CHINESE OCCUPATION
5:00PM - 9.00PM
EAST TURKISTAN NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION &
EIDUL - ADHA CELEBRATION 2011
12:00 Noon to 5:00 p.m
EAST TURKISTAN UIGHUR CULTURE EXHIBITION
82 KINTORE AVE, ADELAIDE
PRESS RELEASE
ETAA DONATES TO THE QUEENSLAND FLOOD APPEAL
My name is Abdulghafur Momin (President of East Turkistan Australian Association ETAA); I represent the Uighurs from East Turkistan in Adelaide. We are writing this letter as our community is deeply concerned about the recent natural disasters, namely the floods in QLD, NSW and VIC; we would like to send our deepest condolences to you and to all the citizens in QLD.
The Uighurs are a small community in Adelaide, as a small token we have raised a small amount of money from our community to help our fellow Australians.
ETAA BOYCOTTS THE "XINJIANG MUKAM" PERFORMANCE
The Chinese Authorities have brought in a group called “XINJIANG MUKAM ART ENSEMBLE” to Australian in the name of ”performing arts” and the show is reported to be shown in Adelaide on 9th January and later in Melbourne and Sydney.
East Turkistan Australian Association Strongly urges all East Turkistan residents in Australia not to participate in the so called “XINJIANG MUKAM ART SHOW”.
