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Because of the ethnic violence in Xinjiang, President Hu Jintao has cut his trip in Italy short, abandoning plans to attend the G8 summit and rushing back to Beijing this morning. State Councilor Dai Bingguo will sub for him at the summit. At this point, none of China's top leaders have come forward with statements about the incident yet, so it will be interesting to see what Hu has to say when he gets back. Meanwhile, Rebiya Kadeer of the World Uyghur Congress - who's been categorically denying orchestrating any of the unrest - has a ton of things to say on China's handling of the incident, including that 400 Uyghurs have died as a result of police shootings and beatings (according to her "inside" Uighur sources). Oh yeah, and Facebook's been blocked.
Hu returns home to deal with Xinjiang
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It's about time Western Media report the truth, not relying on the so called "inside", "unnamed", and "reliable" sources that Da-liar and Rebiya like to use.
So what ? hahahaha , you communist dog come here again ? i ensure much more you are 50 cent from communist ,right ?
So if the truth don't rely on inside ,unnamed , wo you mean we trust CCTV ? haha ,what a joking , you know , CCTV is full of lies, the king of lie in the world . we all know .
hey dude, no point hurling insults. OK? Unlike you, I do read Western and alternative media, to come up with a balanced assessment of the events. Of course losers like you call people CCP, brainwashed blah blah when people's views do not align with your prgrammed views. Do you ever look at your own ugly face in the mirror? LOL!
“400 Uighurs in Urumqi have died as a result of police shootings and beatings. ….Uighurs are afraid to walk the streets in the capital of their homeland”.--By Kadeer
"Today, for the first time in my life, I have a feeling that Urumqi is my hometown, because there were no Chinese in the streets. I am so glad." --By an Uighur resident quoted by RFA.
I live in west for 90% of my life and was brainwashed there. Of course I choose to be on bandwagon and believe Rabiya Kadeer. I also spit on that big-mouth Uighur resident who know nothing about geopolitics.
ROFL!
this whole story is very sad and I hope that the treatment of minorities will change from the roots; not necessarily the government but the mind of the people.
facebook: it was not accessible here in Europe at about 1pm Shanghai time; so, the outage is not necessarily related to the riots.
The shit youth and 5 cent party don't wait, they go out after media sources and hit them with viruses and DOS attacks. Wouldn't surprised if fb was under seige.
Now is the time to drop send in white phosphorous and anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to the Uyghur freedom fighters.
BURN CHINA BUUUURRRRRN!
Bring'em On! Send whatever you like to "Uyghur freedom fighters" the next Bin Ladin. But just dont use the borrowed money, OK.
Like how you supplied Osama Bin Ladin in Afghan? LOL!
"facebook: it was not accessible here in Europe at about 1pm Shanghai time; so, the outage is not necessarily related to the riots."
My routed thru Europe VPN would seem to disagree with you on that.