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Thailand bomb blast puts spotlight on China crackdown on Uighurs
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE

BEIJING — The Globe and Mail - When Thai authorities this week linked the trafficking of Chinese Muslims with the deadly bomb blast at a Bangkok temple, they placed the horrific attack squarely inside a much larger issue facing China, which has witnessed mounting hostility among its minority Uighur people.

In a series of information updates, Thai police said the key suspect in the Aug. 16 bombing, which killed 20 and cast a pall over the country’s sunny image, was involved in the trafficking of Muslim Uighurs out of China.

Thailand in July deported 109 Uighurs back to China, amid a broader crackdown on human smuggling that followed the discovery of mass graves inside Thai borders.

The attacks may have been reprisal, Thai national police chief Somyot Pumpunmuang said.

“When they were blocked from using the country as a pathway, they turned to take action against us with anger,” he said Tuesday. “I do not think it is right.”

Full story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/thailand-bomb-blast-puts-spotlight-on-china-crackdown-on-uighurs/article26376972/

-- THE GLOBE AND MAIL 2015-09-17

[Seastallion]

China controls all the news in China. When a minority claims oppression, it is reasonable, imperative even, to keep an open mind about their background story and claims.

That's step one, and should have been followed when the refugees were first captured.

[Yann55]

I'm glad to read your post, Seastallion. It's definitely not 'mainstream', which is why I like it.

Uighurs are Muslims, and as such they're unwilingly caught in a storm which goes way beyond their borders and/or their issues with the Han Chinese. Thanks to a handful of terrorists, that storm is now on a planetary scale. It didn't start on September 11, 2001, of course, but the World Trade Center attack has a definite Pearl Harbour ring to it, in the way it finally brought the Americans into the 'horror game'.

This in turn produced all manners of disastrous consequences, worldwide, thanks (largely but not only) to Georges W. Bush and consorts, and these consequences are exactly what the terrorists wanted them to be : in a nutshell, most non-Muslims throughout the world now embrace ready-made negative judgments about Muslims in general, and the reaction of non-terrorist Muslims (which of course are the majority, a fact that needs to be constantly reminded) is, understandably, anger and paranoia. Muslim terrorists want their Muslim 'brothers and sisters' to be angry, defensive and paranoid, because what those terrorists plan is to create a monster : a huge army of infuriated soldiers ready for the total Jihad and convinced that God is on their side. They're getting there. A World War that, in their opinion, will bring about the planetary Islamic State they're dreaming of. Yes they are crazy. So were Hitler and Napoleon.

Normal, non-terrorist Muslims should of course understand that generalization is inevitable and that all the terrorist attacks have triggered reactions which are emotional, angry, and not carefully thought out. But 'they' are just as human as the ones who now hate them as a group and lash out at their religion without the least bit of rational thinking.

The Uighur/Thailand issue illustrates this situation. It looks as though no one is even interested in wondering what, exactly, is the problem of Uighurs and the Xinjiang province. Why they take the risk (not to mention the cost) to emigrate illegally. In the eye of most non-Muslim observers, the mere fact that they are Muslim places them on the wrong side and the Rohingya situation is, in that respect, quite similar.

So, you are absolutely right when you say that the background story and claims of the 109 Uighurs should have been examined thoroughly and with issues of Human Rights in mind before returning them manu militari to China, where evidently they won't be welcome, and that's putting it mildly ...

It's very interesting to compare the situation of Tibet with that of Xinjiang, and to see how the West is wildly against Chinese interference in Tibet while it is totally unconcerned with a very similar situation in Xianjiang. The reasons are obvious. The result is that whatever the Chinese decide to do against the Uighurs has been, and will be, met with passive indifference by the West, while their actions in Tibet regularly trigger media, political and public outrage in the West. Do the Chinese authorities (and public) care much about it ? A good question.

Edited September 17, 2015 by Yann55