Uighur Muslims Stabbing Chinese Infidels With Contaminated Needles

[Kaljug]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8251988.stm

A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced three people to up to 15 years in jail in the first trials over a recent series of syringe attacks.

The court did not give the defendants' ethnicity but their names suggest they are from the Muslim Uighur minority.

The syringe attacks have raised tension in a long-standing conflict between the Uighur and Han communities.

Xinjiang saw ethnic riots in July and thousands have protested in Urumqi, the main city, over the syringe attacks.

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The authorities in Xinjiang were this week said to be holding 12 suspects in relation to the attacks.

The BBC's Chris Hogg in Shanghai says local people have been calling on the authorities to take swift legal action to help to restore calm in the region.

The defendant who was given the longest sentence by the Intermediate Court of Urumqi was named as Yilipan Yilihamu.

The 19-year-old was jailed for 15 years for stabbing a woman in the buttock at a fruit stall, the official Xinhua news agency said.

Muhutaerjiang Turdi, 34, and a 22-year-old woman, Aimannisha Guli, were given sentences of 10 and seven years respectively.

They were convicted of threatening a taxi driver with a syringe and stealing 710 yuan ($103) from him.

The Chinese government has been struggling to restore calm in Xinjiang since the July riots, the worst ethnic unrest in the country for decades.

The violence began on 5 July when an initially peaceful protest by Uighur youths, apparently prompted by an earlier riot in a factory in southern China, spiralled out of control - with shops and vehicles burned and passers-by attacked.

About 80 people have been charged over the violence but no date has been set for their trial.

The tension has been exacerbated by the syringe attacks, although their scale and seriousness remains unclear.

Urumqi health and police authorities say more than 500 people had been stabbed by hypodermic syringes in Urumqi, with about 170 of the victims showing obvious signs of the attacks.

None of the victims have suffered poisoning or other effects.

Du Xintao, an official with the regional public security department, said the syringe incidents were "terror attacks" trying to "scare residents and create further unrest".

[Guest]

I don't know singh what exactly are you trying to prove here? You made up the title, when i click on BBC link, title says: Chinese syringe attackers jailed. This is nothing but very desperate move on your part to stereotype all the Muslims and link them with this sick incident. This act reminds me this racist journalist- Kim Bolan we have in Canada who tried to link all the punjabi drugs wars happening in Vancouver with Sikhs/Sikhism. Two wrongs does not make it right, eye to eye will blind this world. I am sure sikh sidhant laid by gurus does not teach us this type of bandi parchar against group of people.

[Kaljug]

I don't know singh what exactly are you trying to prove here? You made up the title, when i click on BBC link, title says: Chinese syringe attackers jailed. This is nothing but very desperate move on your part to stereotype all the Muslims and link them with this sick incident. This act reminds me this racist journalist- Kim Bolan we have in Canada who tried to link all the punjabi drugs wars happening in Vancouver with Sikhism. Two wrongs does not make it right, eye to eye will blind this world. I am sure sikh sidhant laid by gurus does not teach us this type of bandi parchar against group of people.

Fateh!

Er, read the article again. The motives of the perpetrators are mentioned quite clearly and the names are those of Uighur Muslims though the Chinese authorities did not mention reasons for the crime, because they will deal with the threat in their own inimitable way.

Furthermore, the story has been all over the news and on the Chinese media if you care to look for it.

If you feel reporting the news is somehow against Sikhi, or that Sikhs ought to pretend the problem of Islamic terrorism doesn't exist, then I'm going to have to respectfully disagree.

K.

[Kaljug]

Fateh!

More on the story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,546081,00.html

BEIJING — Hundreds of Chinese protested deteriorating public safety Thursday after a series of mysterious syringe attacks further unnerved residents in the western Chinese city of Urumqi where ethnic rioting in July killed nearly 200 people.

People living near the city center reached by telephone said hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of China's Han majority marched peacefully in the city center. They waved Chinese flags, confronted local Communist Party leaders demanding they step down, and shouted "severely punish the hooligans" — a reference to the July 5 rioters.

The demonstration underscored public jitters and lingering grievances despite the city's still-high police presence. It also posed a challenge for the Beijing leadership and a propaganda drive portraying Urumqi and all of China as harmonious ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule Oct. 1.

July's riot — in which ethnic Muslims first set upon Hans who then retaliated with vigilante attacks — was the worst communal violence in a decade in Xinjiang, an often tense Central Asian frontier region with valuable oil and gas deposits.

Thursday's protest came after days of rumors that gangs roamed the city stabbing mostly Han people with hypodermic needles, scaring residents. City officials and state media confirmed the attacks, saying 21 had been detained. A report read on Xinjiang TV's newscast Thursday said 476 people sought treatment for stabbing, though only 89 had obvious signs of being pricked.

While no motivations for the attacks were given, the report gave a breakdown of the victims showing almost all, 433, were Han Chinese with the rest drawn from eight other ethnic groups. The tally suggested the attacks were ethnically motivated and indicated the breadth of unease in the city.

Concerns about the stabbings may be high because Xinjiang has the highest rate of AIDS virus infections in China, with about 25,000 cases of HIV reported last year. The problem is fueled by needle-sharing among drug users.

As Thursday's protests gathered steam, demonstrators headed for the site of the Urumqi Trade Fair, where staff was evacuated. Protesters pushed and shoved police and a few in the crowd were beaten, said resident Zhao Jianzhuang. A Han, Zhao said he joined the demonstrators at a downtown intersection where they were blocked by riot police from marching on People's Square 1 mile (1.6 kilometers away).

The mostly Han demonstrators seemingly took care not to rile ethnic grievances, calling out "maintain ethnic unity" and venting their anger on local officials. They called for the ouster of Xinjiang party secretary Wang Lequan, an ally of President Hu Jintao.

Trying to head off trouble, Wang and the Urumqi party secretary Li Zhi separately talked to the demonstrators, who called for better police protection and demanded they step down, an editor at a local newspaper said, requesting his name not be used because he works for the government.

"Am I that silly? Do I not know that I should protect my brothers and sisters?" Li told them, according to footage the editor said was aired on Urumqi's TV station.

The official Xinhua News Agency confirmed the protest, saying people assembled at several places, including more than 1,000 in the central residential area of Xiaoximen, to demand a "security guarantee" from authorities after the syringe attacks.

Protests have become a spiraling concern for Chinese leaders, with tens of thousands annually and growing larger and more violent in recent years. Fueled by local grievances over corruption, widening income gaps and mismanagement, they challenge the legitimacy of a government that has promised to deliver social fairness. Beijing has so far sought only piecemeal, rather than systematic remedies, calling on officials to be honest public servants, ease social tensions and not use force.

"If you try to deal with demonstrators, that is one thing, that's a security concern. But on the other hand, you really have to find social measures to make sure there is not further anger among residents," said Bo Zhiyue, a China politics expert at National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute.

Troubles in Xinjiang are magnified by ethnic resentments. The Uighurs, an ethnic Muslim group that sees the region as its homeland, complain about being displaced by the Han, who have poured into the area in recent years. The Han resent government affirmative action policies for official jobs and university spots given to Uighurs.

At the first word of trouble Thursday, tensions spiked in the traditional Uighur neighborhood near Urumqi's Grand Bazaar.

"Earlier, a lot of people ran over saying 'something's happened, something's happened,' so I quickly closed my shop and rushed home," said a Uighur woman. She did not want to give her name for fear of government reprisals.

Thursday is the 15th day of the seventh lunar month — an important day when Han Chinese honor the dead by inviting them back for meals. The date may have been cause for agitation as most of the victims in the July violence were Han Chinese.

Zhao, the Chinese demonstrator, said anger was stoked by a perceived delay in trials for those arrested over the July riot as well as by the syringe stabbings.

"This is communal violence and people are frustrated because over 200 people were killed and almost 1,700 were injured. And of course you have friends, relatives and children who were attacked. So the people are not happy," said Bo, the politics expert.

[Mithar]

Let us not forget here that it is the Chinese who have taken over the land of the Uighurs. Now the Chinese are in the process of colonising their land just as they are currently doing in Tibet. I don’t know what is worse, Islamo Fascists or Communists. BOTH are enemies of humanity in my opinion.

[Kaljug]

Let us not forget here that it is the Chinese who have taken over the land of the Uighurs. Now the Chinese are in the process of colonising their land just as they are currently doing in Tibet. I don’t know what is worse, Islamo Fascists or Communists. BOTH are enemies of humanity in my opinion.

Fateh!

"Uighur land" hasn't existed since the Uighur Empire was destroyed by the Kyrgyz in the year 840 which caused a large diaspora of Uighurs across South East Asia.

Present day Uighur agitations follow the typical pattern of Islamic demands wherever there is a large population of Muslims. Not only do they want the Han Chinese thrown out of what they consider their lands, but they want a separate Islamic state based on Sharia for themselves. If this ever happens, they will then migrate to another part of China and start making the same demands (vide Kashmir).

Communists are certainly scum, but at this point they are the only ones with the nads to meet Islamic desire for global domination head on. This is why you rarely get Muslim terrorists, who are naturally cowards at heart, causing chaos in the Chinese-ruled part of Kashmir.

K.

[tonyhp32]

Just as Muslims considered any land that was under their control at any point in history to be perpetually Islamic so do the Chinese believe that both Tibet and Xinjiang as Chinese forever having been under Chinese control. Uighurs conmplain about the Han Chinese being settled in 'their land' but isn't this just a reversal of the usual Islamic scheme of taking over other land ie settle Muslims from neighbouring countries there. This was the case with India with the Muslim ruler inviting Turks, Persian and then Pathans to settle around Delhi. Due to the numerical superiority of the Han Chinese they are able to arrest and push back the demographic Islamic onslaught on their country.

Edited September 13, 2009 by tonyhp32