Comments on: Learning about Xinjiang, Urumqui, and China’s Uygur People http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/11/26/learning-about-xinjiang-urumqui-and-chinas-uygur-people/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charles Liu http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/11/26/learning-about-xinjiang-urumqui-and-chinas-uygur-people/comment-page-1/#comment-106297 Charles Liu Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:16:04 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3929#comment-106297 Few observations about this exteremely biased report: - Teague seems to have neglected to mention 125 of the first 156 people killed in the Urumqi riot were Hans (IMHO it's no longer a protest when pre-planned mass slaughter of innocent civilian with mechetes prepared ahead of time.) - The article's claim that two days later the Hans took revenge, is inaccurate. According Carolyn Drake's peer, Peter Foster of London Telegraph, who was on the ground, reported police in Urumqi protecting Uyghurs from Hans following the 7/5 riot: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100002643/urumqi-criticism-and-credit-for-the-chinese-police/ “Han crowds on Tuesday effectively were allowed to go round and round in circles, exhausting themselves in the hot sun while never actually being allowed to reach the objects of their anger. To my mind, this was very smart policing. Then on Wednesday, after an overwhelming show of force, the police made sure that the Han protestors largely stayed off the streets.” - Two Uyghur men in a photo NatGeo held up as "strugle for human rights" were actually involved in a terrorist attack on July 13. Search Youtube with "Urumqi mosque" and see footages of their mayhem inside and outside a mosque. Few observations about this exteremely biased report:

- Teague seems to have neglected to mention 125 of the first 156 people killed in the Urumqi riot were Hans (IMHO it’s no longer a protest when pre-planned mass slaughter of innocent civilian with mechetes prepared ahead of time.)

- The article’s claim that two days later the Hans took revenge, is inaccurate. According Carolyn Drake’s peer, Peter Foster of London Telegraph, who was on the ground, reported police in Urumqi protecting Uyghurs from Hans following the 7/5 riot:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100002643/urumqi-criticism-and-credit-for-the-chinese-police/

“Han crowds on Tuesday effectively were allowed to go round and round in circles, exhausting themselves in the hot sun while never actually being allowed to reach the objects of their anger. To my mind, this was very smart policing.

Then on Wednesday, after an overwhelming show of force, the police made sure that the Han protestors largely stayed off the streets.”

- Two Uyghur men in a photo NatGeo held up as “strugle for human rights” were actually involved in a terrorist attack on July 13. Search Youtube with “Urumqi mosque” and see footages of their mayhem inside and outside a mosque.

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