It's those foreigners
Fear and mistrust of outsiders is not confined to right wing politicians and terrorists in Europe or anti-immigrant activists in the USA. China is also blaming foreigners for some of its problems.China Blames Foreign-Trained Separatists for Attacks in Xinjiang
Chinese authorities on Monday accused Pakistan-trained Uighur separatists of planning and executing the first of two deadly attacks over the weekend that struck the ancient Silk Road town of Kashgar in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.
As the death toll rose to at least 18, the Kashgar city government said in a written statement that one of the surviving attackers had confessed that the group’s ringleader had gone to Pakistan for training in bomb- and gun-making by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a small Uighur group that advocates independence for Xinjiang…
Some experts disputed that interpretation, noting that the Kashgar attackers did not appear to employ sophisticated weapons. Both attacks were carried out with knives, not guns, which are rigidly banned in China…
In the wake of the attacks, Xinjiang’s Communist Party boss, Zhang Chunxian, pledged at an emergency party meeting to severely punish the attackers and “effectively suppress” unspecified illegal religious activities…
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Labels: China, dissent, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 7:46 AM
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