Posted on 07/10/2009 8:19:33 AM PDT by MightyTruth
News Asia-Pacific
Uighur group 'regrets' photo error
An official of the World Uighur Congress has admitted that their exiled leader used an incorrect photograph to illustrate riots in China's western Xinjiang region, during an interview with Al Jazeera.
Alim Seytoff of the Uighur American Associaition said he and other Uighur leaders regretted the error.
Rebiya Kadeer, a former Uighur businesswoman who was jailed in China for several years and now lives in exile in the US, used the photograph during an interview earlier this week.
She said the photograph showed Chinese forces lined up on the streets of Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang.
However, the image was not of Urumqi, but is believed to be of an unrelated riot in the city of Shishou a month earlier.
Several news agencies including Reuters issued the photograph - apparently originally sourced from Twitter - last Monday, a day after riots broke out in Urumqi that Chinese officials say left more than 150 dead.
The mistake was picked up by several Chinese websites, China's state-run China Daily newspaper and by readers of the Al Jazeera website.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...
Historically muslims have repeatedly used "fake" photo's to justify the on-set of genocidal operations against other groups.
One such example is when the Turks used "fake photo's to launch their Genocide against Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor 1915-1922.
More recent examples occured in Kosovo in the late 1990's.
It is an on-going tactic used by Muslims, one that Governments and individuals need to be vigilant of.....
>> One such example is when the Turks used “fake photo’s to launch their Genocide against Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrian Christians in Asia Minor 1915-1922.
I’d be interested in seeing one. I’ve never seen one of those.
Source: www.agiasophia.com/Horton
Reading the propaganda is one thing - and suspect it is, but I wanted to see the actual pictures.
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