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  Police Raids Yield No Clues About Kidnapped Uyghur Village Police Chief

  24 March 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News

  A wide-ranging police search for an ethnic Uyghur security chief kidnapped by a group of Uyghurs in an area known for violence between the ethnic group and Han Chinese in China’s restive, far-western Xinjiang region has so far yielded no clues, local police said. Imin Memtimin, 41, who has played an active role in police operations in Sadiqawat village of Baghchi townshi...
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  Chinese Police Shoot Four Uyghurs Dead After Casino Knife Attack

  17 March 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News

  Authorities in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region have shot dead four ethnic minority Uyghurs who carried out a knife attack on a group of Han Chinese outside a popular casino, according to a police officer and local doctors. The incident, in which police wounded another two Uyghurs, took place on March 12 at the Chess Room casino in western Xinjiang’s Kashgar ...
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  Xinjiang State Security Trials Flat, Criminal Trials Soar in 2014

  12 March 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Education, News, Religion, World

  Sentences are announced for 55 defendants, including some convicted of splittism, a state security crime, at a public sentencing rally in Xinjiang's Ili Prefecture on May 27, 2014. Image Credit: voachinese.com Xinjiang’s high court recently reported that, as compared with 2013, the number of endangering state security (ESS) trials in Xinjiang was flat in 2014. A graph incl...
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  Increase in Criminal Trials in Xinjiang Indicates Growing Repression: Rights Journal

  12 March 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News, World

  A significant increase in the number of overall criminal trials in northwest China’s restive Xinjiang region indicates that authorities have intensified the suppression of human rights activism and dissent, a law and human rights journal has reported. The Dui Hua human rights journal, which reports on current issues in China’s criminal justice system, analyzed  official ...
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  Hacking, shooting incident leave 17 dead in Xinjiang’s Aksu prefecture

  21 February 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News

  A clash in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region killed 17 members of the country's Uyghur minority, including four policemen who were slashed with knives, nine attackers who were shot to death and four people killed by police gunfire, officials and witnesses said. The Feb. 17 incident in Aksu (In Chinese, Akesu) prefecture came during house-to-house searches by police, w...
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  Uyghur Man Draws Knife, is Shot Dead by Police

  20 February 2015 All Headlines, News, World

  A Uyghur farmer on his way to work in the fields was shot and killed by police in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region this week after he pulled a knife on officers attempting to detain him, sources said. The Feb. 16 shooting in Bashquduqla village of Purchaqchi town in Hotan (In Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county occurred when police stopped th...
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  Is the Chinese Military Weaker Than We Think?

  13 February 2015 All Headlines, News, World

  Today, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) published an assessment on the weaknesses of the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). While the report, compiled by the RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD), points out that “the PLA’s capabilities have improved dramatically,” it also notes “potentially serious weaknesses” that could “limit [...
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  Ghulja Massacre on February 5, 1997 in East Turkistan ( Documentary)

  09 February 2015 All Headlines, News, Video Gallery

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdBMKM6vxU...
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  As Muslim Uighurs Flee, China Sees Jihad Risk

  03 February 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Environment and Health, News, World

  Jeremy Pagea nd Emre Peker As Homeland Grows Violent, Some Uighurs Seek Haven in Turkey ENLARGE Uighur protesters burn a Chinese flag in Istanbul, where some members of the mostly Muslim ethnic group have settled after fleeing their homeland in China.PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS By JEREMY PAGE And EMRE PEKER Updated ...
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  Uyghur Refugees Go on Hunger Strike in Thai Detention Center

  23 January 2015 All Headlines, Education, News

  More than 100 Uyghur refugees held in a southern Thailand prison who are awaiting their fate after entering the country illegally from China 10 months ago have started a hunger strike, one of the detainees said. About 140 Uyghurs, Muslims who fled persecution in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region, began the hunger strike on Wednesday at a facility in Hat Yai ne...
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  Chinese Netizens Highly Recommend Havel’s New Year Greeting – See more at: http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/gb/2015/01/03/a1165992.html#sthash.JdXjh6Jo.dpuf

  03 January 2015 Argument, Environment and Health, History, Religion, World

  Each head of state will issue New Year Greetings, although most New Year greetings hardly impress people. However, only one New Year’s greeting was reviewed every year and highly recommended by Chinese netizens. It was the late former Czechoslovakian President Havel's New Year's greeting in 1990. Havel himself is a well-known dissident writer. During the Communis...
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  Uyghur Song-Perhat Khaliq & Morgenland All Star Band

  29 December 2014 Culture and Art, Video Gallery

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qppxeJDIo40...