China executes 9 Uighurs

[KanadaHye]

China executes 9 Uighurs

China has executed nine Uighurs for participating in ethnic rioting in the country's northwest.

The China News Services, a state-owned outlet, reported Monday that the nine had been put to death recently, but no specific date was given.

The nine people were convicted on charges of murder and other crimes. Their sentences were recently reviewed by the Supreme People's Court, a requirement under Chinese law.

The rioting left almost 200 people dead in the worst ethnic violence to hit the country in decades.

Uighurs are an ethnically Turkic, predominantly Muslim group who make up the majority in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.

State media also said Monday that 20 people were indicted on charges in the deaths of 18 people amid the unrest in the province.

Protests started in early July in the provincial capital of Urumqi when demonstrators gathered to demand justice for two Uighurs killed in June during a fight with their Han co-workers at a factory in southern China.

The demonstration turned into a riot, as armed Uighur mobs clashed with police and passersby. They also set ablaze or otherwise damaged hundreds of vehicles, stores and street vendor stalls.

In response to the riot, hundreds of Han Chinese — the majority ethnic group in the area — rampaged through the city two days later with sticks and meat cleavers, looking for Uighurs and revenge.

The unrest then spread to other cities in the region.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/1...-executed.html

[Federate]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Nobody messes with China, it knows how to get xxxx done.

[Catharsis]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Armenia should move in the direction of forging closer ties with China since the Chinese also realize the dangers of Pan-Turkism to their territorial integrity.

[Muhaha]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

I really don't see Turkish-Chinese relations worsening all that much. Don't a lot of Chinese goods pass through Turkey to get into Europe? Economic cooperation always keeps whatever sour apples two nations may have between one another at a minimum.

[KanadaHye]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

I really don't see Turkish-Chinese relations worsening all that much. Don't a lot of Chinese goods pass through Turkey to get into Europe? Economic cooperation always keeps whatever sour apples two nations may have between one another at a minimum.

Well, they are in direct competition with providing the world with counterfeit products.

[Armanen]

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And China has more to offer the world than turkey. It is in turkey's long term interest to have normal, if not friendly, relations with China.

[Pedro Xaramillo]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Turkey is possibly the most hypocritical country in history, considering how many peopel they have killed, their treatment of the Kurds and their denying of Genocides, yet a few Uighurs are killed, and Turkey calls it Genocide and starts on a country for civil rights.

I agree with Catharsis, it would be beneficial to side with China, maybe even push China for Genocide recognition, does anyone know of any efforts to inform the Chinese of the Genocide yet?

[Catharsis]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Turkey is possibly the most hypocritical country in history, considering how many peopel they have killed, their treatment of the Kurds and their denying of Genocides, yet a few Uighurs are killed, and Turkey calls it Genocide and starts on a country for civil rights.

I agree with Catharsis, it would be beneficial to side with China, maybe even push China for Genocide recognition, does anyone know of any efforts to inform the Chinese of the Genocide yet?

Absolutely Pedro, National People's Congress should raise this issue and make an appropriate declaration about real historical culprit government's who have committed genocides (starting with Turkey). They should also point out the ongoing denial by the Turkish government which makes them nothing short of accomplices to the crime of genocide.

Currently, there is a small presence of Armenians in China, especially in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Armeno-Chinese relations date back to antiquity as there were vibrant Armenian and Chinese communities in both Armenia and China via the trade routes including the Silk Road. I can elaborate more on some of the specific historical details of the Armeno-Chinese relations. In more modern times in the 19th and early 20th century Armenians in cities like Hong Kong and Shanghai played a prominent role in shaping the growth and modernization through entrepreneurs and benefactors like Catchick Paul Chater (Chaterian) who did quite a lot for the development of Hong Kong and numerous other Chinese cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchick_Paul_Chater

In more modern times there was a close cooperation via the USSR-China relationship in the 1950s but that stopped as Sino-Soviet relations cooled in the 1960s. Armenian leaders like the then Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan in 1990s understood the growing might of China and saw a common bond in both China and India (yet another modernizing giant), in case of the former especially because of Uighur separatism in northwestern Xinjiang province of China. Azeris alleged that Sargsyan personally made deals with Chinese leadership and bought weapons systems - including 8 Typhoon surface-to-surface rocket systems.

A Reuters article from a decade ago.

Azeris Protest Alleged Chinese Arms to Armenia

BAKU (Reuters)–Azerbaijan on Tuesday accused China of supplying sophisticated weaponry and training to its arch-foe Armenia–and demanded Beijing recall the alleged arms shipments.

Vafa Guluzade–top foreign affairs adviser to President Haydar Aliyev–said China had supplied Typhoon rocket systems to Armenia–which has been locked in conflict with Azerbaijan for more than a decade over the disputed Karabakh region.

"In violation of international norms and agreements–China has given Armenia eight Typhoon rocket systems. Right now–Chinese instructors are in Armenia teaching the Armenians how to use them," Guluzade told Reuters.

"We demand that China immediately recall the Typhoon systems," he said.

A Defense Ministry spokesman said the surface-to-surface rockets had a range of 37 to 50 miles.

A source in Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said the Chinese ambassador in Baku had been handed an official protest regarding the arms shipments.

A Chinese embassy spokesman told Reuters it would answer the note in several days–but declined to comment on whether there had been an arms shipment.

Armenia's Foreign Ministry said it had no information on the matter and that it would release a statement later.

Azerbaijan has often complained of Russian arms shipments to Armenia.

"Now there is an alliance between Russia and China against the West–Russia is trying to pull China into the Caucasus conflict," Guluzade told Reuters by telephone.

According to Guluzade–Armenian Defense Minister Vazgen Sargsyan procured the Typhoon installations last summer during a visit to China with the Russian defense minister.

He said this was a sign that the supplying of the Typhoons was arranged with the help of the Russians.

Guluzade said the Chinese ambassador had earlier told the Azeri Foreign Ministry that Sargsyan bought the Typhoons from a private company and that the government was not involved.

Tuesday, May 18, 1999
New Military Attache Of China Begins Mission

YEREVAN (Noyan Tapan)–Chinese Military Attache Colonel Jui Xaojui began his Armenia mission recently. During a reception held on the occasion–Chinese Ambassador to Armenia Tju Tjaoshun said–"Armenia and China can be said to be cooperating in all areas today." The ambassador hoped for cooperation in the sphere of defense to be as effective as it is in others.

[Jos]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

Turkey is possibly the most hypocritical country in history, considering how many peopel they have killed, their treatment of the Kurds and their denying of Genocides, yet a few Uighurs are killed, and Turkey calls it Genocide and starts on a country for civil rights.

I agree with Catharsis, it would be beneficial to side with China, maybe even push China for Genocide recognition, does anyone know of any efforts to inform the Chinese of the Genocide yet?

China, a country with totalitarian laws that would never be tolerated in a free society

Pedro you've turned into a puzzling turkophobe. You effortlessly ignore the fact that China is the world's largest dictatorship that ruthlessly represses freedom amongst the Tibetans and Uighurs not to mention its own people with totalitarian laws that are unparalled. You glaze over the fact that a country without the rule of law has just executed 9 people but instead are convulsed by mere comments just because it's from a Turkish source.

Your style is starting to resemble the classic Armenian debating technique i.e. seek to define your opponents on terms that suit your hypothesis, usually by selecting the extremes examples and then start slandering like there's no tomorrow.

[Armanen]

Re: China executes 9 Uighurs

China, a country with totalitarian laws that would never be tolerated in a free society

Pedro you've turned into a puzzling turkophobe. You effortlessly ignore the fact that China is the world's largest dictatorship that ruthlessly represses freedom amongst the Tibetans and Uighurs not to mention its own people with totalitarian laws that are unparalled. You glaze over the fact that a country without the rule of law has just executed 9 people but instead are convulsed by mere comments just because it's from a Turkish source.

Your style is starting to resemble the classic Armenian debating technique i.e. seek to define your opponents on terms that suit your hypothesis, usually by selecting the extremes examples and then start slandering like there's no tomorrow.

Before turkey can speak about human rights abuses, it should first take proper steps to address its ottoman era crimes, i.e. the Christian Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Pontic Greeks, and they should stop the anti-Kurdish policies.

If you live in a glass house you shouldn't throw stones.