By Andrew G. Marshall
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11313
Introduction
 
The recent attacks in Mumbai, while largely blamed on Pakistan’s state-sponsored militant groups, represent the latest phase in a far more complex and long-term “strategy of tension” in the region; being employed by the Anglo-American-Israeli Axis to ultimately divide and conquer the Middle East and Central Asia. The aim [...]

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On 2nd December 2008, Human Rights Without Frontiers (Mr Willy Fautré), the ALDE and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy organized a conference on Human Rights in China at the EU Parliament.

Mr. Dokun Isa, Secretary General of World Uygur Congress spoke about Uygur Human Rights issue.

Mr. Willy Fautré of HRWF, Mr. Dokun Isa of WUC

UNPO [...]

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Talk Announcement:
Human Rights in Xinjiang and the Plight of Uyghurs
A talk by Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress and a
Nobel Peace Prize candidate
Time: 3:30 pm
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Place: 201 International Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Sponsored by the Michigan State University (MSU)
Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
and the Muslim Studies Program
For more [...]

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The first barons of banking
Last Updated: November 06. 2008 7:11PM UAE / November 6. 2008 3:11PM GMT
Among the captains of industry, spin doctors and financial advisers accompanying British prime minister Gordon Brown on his fund-raising visit to the Gulf this week, one name was surprisingly absent. This may have had something to do with the [...]

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Young woman fired from Uyghur radio station, then arrested
Reporters Without Borders condemns the dismissal and arrest of Mehbube Ablesh, a member of the Uyghur community in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, who worked for Xinjiang People’s Radio Station, a government station based in the provincial capital of Urumqi.
After posting articles online criticising provincial leaders and [...]

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An official radio station in Xinjiang sacks an outspoken employee, who is now detained

HONG KONG—Authorities at a Chinese government-run radio station in the remote Xinjiang region have fired and detained an ethnic Uyghur woman working there, apparently for criticizing government policy, Uyghur sources have said.
Mehbube Ablesh, 29, was removed from her post at Xinjiang
People’s Radio [...]

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DPA
Beijing - Two Chinese paramilitary police were killed in a clash with Uighurs in the restive Central Asian region of Xinjiang, leading to the arrest of at least 20 people, Uighur activists said Thursday. Two officers were seriously injured and several others were hurt in the clash that occurred Wednesday in Xinjiang’s Jiashi city, about [...]

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By GRAEME GREEN - Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Muslim Uighurs claim China has used the ‘war on terror’ to label all Uighur nationalists as terrorists and supress their culture and religion While the Olympic Games have provided a chance for China to present its most polished face to the world, they have also given marginalised [...]

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Xinhua
Updated: 2008-08-20 20:30
BEIJING — Ramazan Sahin of Turkey won the men’s freestyle 66kg wrestling title to earn Turkey their first gold medal here on Wednesday evening at the Beijing Olympic Games.
The reigning world champion lost the first period to Ukrainian Andriy Stadnik but took the next two for a 2-1 (2-2, 2-1, 2-2) victory. The [...]

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 Aug 19, 2008, 7:52 GMT
Beijing - A group of exiles from China’s Muslim ethnic Uighur minority alleged Tuesday that police were planning to crack down on the Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks were carried out during the Olympic Games.
The Munich-based World Uyghur Congress said Xinjiang authorities plan to hold a 40-day ‘Strike Hard’ [...]

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