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http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-07-voa3.cfm
“Chinese Media: 1434 Arrested in Xinjiang Riots”
By VOA News
07 July 2009
SNIPPET: “Tensions between Han and Uighurs blew up last month after a false rumor spread throughout a toy factory in Guangdong that Uighur workers raped two Chinese girls. A huge fight broke out, killing two people.
Chinese authorities have accused the Uighurs of seeking independence for Xinjiang, where they are the majority ethnic group. Xinjiang borders a number of Central Asian states with large Muslim populations, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The Uighurs say the government exaggerates the threat of an independence movement in order to justify its control.”
blog:
http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/2009/07/reporting-on-western-china.html
“Reporting on Western China”
SNIPPET: “Xinjiang’s ongoing “troubles” and the presence of Salafist-Jihadists in the mix is an analytical “hobby” for me, primarily because it represents such a collection challenge. The rise of Chinese Islam — and China’s subsequent response to the inevitable radicalization of some of those Muslims — has been an under-reported, poorly analyzed area, primarily because the Chinese have been excellent at repressing any independent information on the country’s Muslim regions.”
(July 6, 7:57 pm)