Financial Times BY Alexa Olesen AUGUST 8, 2014 Ordinary Chinese social media users have reacted with nonchalance and even some rejoicing to news that Xinjiang (East Turkistan), a far western region beset with bloody ethnic unrest, may tighten its family planning policies to curb population growth among minority Uighurs. The plan, part of a blueprint…
On the morning of July 30, in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, an imam named Juma Tahir led prayers to mark Eid al-Fitr. Soon after, the 74-year-old was found stabbed to death outside his 600-year-old mosque. His murder capped days of violence in China’s vast and troubled northwest — and, many fear, augured…
Eighteen people who took part in violence that killed dozens near China’s border with Pakistan have handed themselves in to police. Authorities say a terrorist gang attacked a police station and government buildings in Shache county near Kashgar on July 28, killing 37 people before police shot dead 59 of the attackers. Xinjiang (East Turkistan)…
A city in China’s Xinjiang (East Turkistan) province has temporarily banned people with veils, head scarves and long beards from boarding buses. Experts say attempts at repressing their culture are fuelling violence and extremism. On August 4, in the northwestern Xinjiang (East Turkistan) city of Karamay, authorities announced a ban on people with head coverings…
Los Angeles Times By Barbara Demick 2014-08-07 What happened in the dead of night on a desolate road near a desert oasis in northwestern China is so shrouded in mystery that it would seem that nearly everybody who witnessed it took an oath of silence — or is dead. But the most reliable accounts suggest…
