In recent days we have been able to read in the newspapers of the threat of Uighuri, Muslim terrorists, allies of Al Qaeda, which could strike during the Olympic Games. At least so we read in newspaper headlines.
On reading more carefully it turns out that this is the separatists of the so-called East Turkestan, but the Chinese are angered to hear that; for them it is the Xinjiang.
We discovered that these people are turcophone, who have always been Muslim and related to the Turks and not at all to the Chinese, and have an ancient history.
We discovered that from mid-1800 to mid-1900 the province has tried several times to be independent, before being to be liberated / invaded by the People's Liberation Army, the same who liberated / invaded Tibet. Points of view!
In the books we learn that the Chinese assimilation of Eastern Turkmenistan is known as the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, except that the people are not all in agreement. Furthermore you find that this nation has been strong culturally but politically repressed by the Chinese government, at least according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
These cultural and social tensions periodically provoke violent clashes: in 1962 there were clashes which caused the exodus of 60,000 people; in 1990 there were 50 deaths; in 1997 there were riots and bomb attacks.
Reducing all this to 'bad Muslim allies of Al Qaeda' is the result of the worst kind of journalism that fills the pages of Big Brother and reduce to very few lines what happens in the world.
If they had not threatened the sacred Olympic Games, who would have ever heard of bad Uighuri in Xinjiang?
Terrorism therefore works.
Bruno Picozzi (in translation)
On reading more carefully it turns out that this is the separatists of the so-called East Turkestan, but the Chinese are angered to hear that; for them it is the Xinjiang.
We discovered that these people are turcophone, who have always been Muslim and related to the Turks and not at all to the Chinese, and have an ancient history.
We discovered that from mid-1800 to mid-1900 the province has tried several times to be independent, before being to be liberated / invaded by the People's Liberation Army, the same who liberated / invaded Tibet. Points of view!
In the books we learn that the Chinese assimilation of Eastern Turkmenistan is known as the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, except that the people are not all in agreement. Furthermore you find that this nation has been strong culturally but politically repressed by the Chinese government, at least according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
These cultural and social tensions periodically provoke violent clashes: in 1962 there were clashes which caused the exodus of 60,000 people; in 1990 there were 50 deaths; in 1997 there were riots and bomb attacks.
Reducing all this to 'bad Muslim allies of Al Qaeda' is the result of the worst kind of journalism that fills the pages of Big Brother and reduce to very few lines what happens in the world.
If they had not threatened the sacred Olympic Games, who would have ever heard of bad Uighuri in Xinjiang?
Terrorism therefore works.
Bruno Picozzi (in translation)
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