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ABC Tracks Down Woman Who Stood up to the Chinese Soldiers (Tank Woman)

Tank Woman

Tank Man

ABC’s Clarissa Ward reports from Urumqi, the capital of China’s north-western Xianjiang province:

We went on a mission today to find the Uighur woman who stood up to Chinese security forces on Tuesday, as she and other women protested the mass arrests of Uighur men. The images of her boldly walking up to the wall of soldiers are undoubtedly some of the most striking of this conflict. Some have compared her to the lone student protestor who stood in front of the tank on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

We started our search in a bustling, impoverished Uighur neighbourhood where the lanes are thick with people selling watermelon and kebabs and butchers slaughtering sheep. It did not take long to find her. We asked a group of locals if they knew about this brave woman and they immediately took us over to her house.

Her name is Tursun Gul. She is a migrant worker and she is not from Urumqi. In person, she looks younger than she does in the pictures but her eyes are tired. She was injured in a car accident and now uses a crutch to help her walk.

She told us why she took to the streets in protest on Tuesday.

“My husband, younger brother and older brothers, 5 in all, were arrested,” she said, “We were eating when it happened. The police came and took them away and they never returned. I don’t know why they took them.”

When we asked if she was not frightened walking up to a line of heavily armed soldiers she retorted, “How could I be afraid when I did not commit any crime? We’re just migrant workers from another part of Xinjiang. We’re not guilty of anything.”

Tursun, a mother of two young children, said she does not know where her brothers and her husband are being held and she does not know when, or if, they will be released. And she does not know how she will support her family now.

“There is no one to take care of us,” she lamented.

Other local residents we spoke to told us that more than 20 men were taken from the area. None of them have been seen since. According to official figures, more than 1400 people have been arrested in connection with this week’s violence.

Ottawa hokumet binasi aldida Xitaylarnming Uyghurlarni, Xitay hokumeti bilen birliship xalighanche qirghin qilishigha qarshi namayish:

Source: Uyghur Canadian Society

CTV : Mehmet Tohti interview

Inside Story - United China? (president, Uighur Canadian Society :Rukiye Turdush Interview)

Canada’s Uyghurs ‘awakened’ by Chinese crackdown

Jennifer MacMillan
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From Thursday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Friday, Jul. 10, 2009 02:47AM EDT

Uyghur-Canadians are banding together to protest the recent crackdown by Chinese authorities on demonstrations in their homeland, and some say last weekend’s riots have been an “awakening” for the tiny community.

“Usually when we had protests before, it was hard to get 20 or 30 people to show up,” said Mehmet Tohti, an Uyghur-Canadian living in Mississauga, Ont. “But today, everyone stopped working and came together to express their anger.”

Nearly all of the Toronto 120 Uyghurs demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto Wednesday while another 30 of Alberta’s Uyghurs gathered at the Chinese consulate in Calgary. The Toronto group was joined by a few dozen supporters, mostly from the region’s Turkish community. The Uyghurs are a Muslim people of Turkic descent who have a long history in a part of northwestern China bordered by Mongolia and Kazakhstan in the north and India in the south.

Despite the fact the region has been under Beijing’s rule for the past 60 years, Uyghurs are ethnically closer to the Turks and feel their culture is under siege as hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese have been encouraged to move into the region by the government, ratcheting up tensions between the two groups.

Violent clashes are nothing new to the region, but Mr. Tohti says the latest round of riots are different.

“It’s crossing the line,” he said. “The Han Chinese are openly killing the Uyghurs.”

Demonstration organizers tried to keep the peace among protesters Wednesday, but tensions flared at one point as one man lit a Chinese flag on fire and another woman threw water bottles at a man who laughed at the protesters while exiting the consulate.

“People are very, very angry,” said Gulia, 55, who didn’t want to use her last name for fear of reprisal attacks against her siblings who live in Urumqi. “They’re very scared.”

Tursun Nurdun, 48, lives in Etobicoke and says he hasn’t been able to reach his mother, two sisters and a brother in Urumqi since last Sunday’s riots. He fears they may have been hurt or killed in the violence.

“Every day, I call the phone, it [doesn't] work,” he said. “I send the e-mail, and there’s no e-mail back.”

Mr. Nurdun drives a truck for a living to support his wife and two teenaged children, and tries to help his family back in Urumqi when he can. He hasn’t seen them in 12 years.

“I have a job and I send them money,” Mr. Nurdun said. “All of them went to university and then there’s no job. The companies say to them, ‘I don’t need Uyghurs, I hire Han Chinese.’”

Amnesty International, along with Uyghur-Canadian groups, is calling on China to launch an independent and impartial investigation into the recent violence.

“It’s also our concern that the serious violations of human rights in the longer term be addressed as well,” said Amnesty’s China campaigner, Lindsay Mossman. “Accusations of terrorism with little merit have been used to detain Uyghurs in the past.”

Huseyin Celil, an Uyghur-Canadian, was sentenced to life in prison in China on terrorism charges in 2006 and remains in jail overseas despite years of lobbying by the federal government to secure his freedom.

Mr. Nurdun wants Canada to keep pressuring China on its treatment of Uyghurs, and the group plans to hold another protest in Ottawa tomorrow Friday.

“I hope Stephen Harper will push Hu Jintao to change the system,” Mr. Nurdun said.

RAP FOR MY UYGHUR BROTHERS - TÜRKISTAN FASIZME MEZAR OLACAK!!!!

Please help Uyghurs

Amérika dölet mejlisi ezaliri xitay hökümitini eyiblesh qanun layihisini otturigha qoydi

2009-07-10 : Source: RAF

10 - Iyul küni amérika dölet mejlisining bir qisim ezaliri xitayning uyghurlargha yürgüzüwatqan qattiq basturushni eyiblesh qarar layihisini tonushturush meqsitide axbarat élan qilish yighini ötküzdi.

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10 - Iyul künidiki amérika dölet mejlisi bir qisim ezalirining ‘xitayning qanliq basturushini eyiblesh qarar layihisi’ ni otturigha qoyush axbarat élan qilish yighinidin bir körünüsh. Sürette, amérika dölet mejlisi ezasi bil déléhunt we amérika awam palatasi tashqi munasiwetler komititining reisi dana rohrabakér, dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanim we ularning yardemchiliri amérika dölet mejlisi binasi aldida.

Uyghur diyarida yüz bériwatqan qirghinchiliqlar,insan heqliri depsendiliri pütün dunyaning diqqitini alahide tartmaqta. Bügün amérika dölet mejlisi ezasi bil déléhunt we amérika awam palatasi tashqi munasiwetler tarmaq komititining reisi dana rohrabakérlar xitayning uyghurlargha qiliwatqan qattiq bésimini eyibleydighan qarar layihisini tonushturush munasiwiti bilen axbarat élan qilish yighini achti.

Axbarat élan qilish yighinigha dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanimmu ishtirak qildi. Axbarat qilish yighini neq meydanidin muxbirimiz ümidwar bizge yighin ehwalidin melumat berdi.

Axbarat élan qilish yighinida aldi bilen bil dalaxant ependi söz qildi. U sözide aldi bilen uyghurlar heqqide qisqiche melumat bérip ötkendin kéyin sözini mundaq dawam qildi: ” uyghur diyarida yüz bergen weqelerde xitay 156 adem ölgenlikini élan qildi. Emma bizning alghan xewerlirimizdin ölgen kishilerning sanining 500 ge yétidighanliqi melum bolmaqta. Yene minglighan yaridar türmilerge solandi. Xitay uyghurlarning insan heqlirini depsende qilish we ulargha diniy jehettin bésim qilghanning sirtida, ténch yosunda élip barghan bir namayishini térrorluq bilen eyiblimekte. Yeni xitay térrorluqqa qarshi urushni bigunah insanlarni öltürüshning wasitisi qilmaqta. Xitay hökümiti yene rabiye qadir xanimni bu qirghinchiliqning jawabkari dewatidu. Lékin biz bilimiz, rabiye qadir xanim öz xelqining insan heqliri üchün öz hayatini atighan bir ayal. U démokratiyige ishinidu hem ténchliqperwerlik bilen xelqi üchün xizmet qiliwatidu … Men we xizmetdashlirim bu yerde özimizning xitayning uyghurlargha yürgüzüwatqan bésim siyasitini eyiblesh qarar layihisini qollaydighanliqimizni bildürimiz. Xitay hökümiti ténch yosunda élip bérilghan namayishni qanliq basturushining jawabkarliqini rabiye qadir xanim dep körsitishni toxtitishi kérek.”

Ikkinchi bolup söz alghan awam palatasi tashqi munasiwetler tarmaq komitétining reisi dana rohrabakér amérikining enenisining erkinlikni yaqlash ikenlikini, shunga özlirining erkinlikni yaqlighuchi kishilerni her daim qarshi élip, ularning dunyagha erkinlik élip kélishi üchün yardemde bolup kelgenlikini tekitlidi.

Dana rohrabakér ependi sözide, uyghurlarning xitay kommunst tüzümide éziliwatqanliqini, ularning héchqandaq insan heqliridin behrimen bolalmaywatqanliqini éytqandin kéyin mundaq qildi: “biz amérika dölet mejlisidiki bashqa ezalarningmu bu qarar layihisge awaz qoshushini we xitay hökümitining uyghurlargha yürgüzüwatqan qattiq qol siyasitini eyiblishini ümid qilimiz. Amérika burun özining türmiliridiki kishilerni xitayning soraq qilishigha ruxset qilghan. Shunga bizmu kommunist xitayning bizning tekshürgüchilirimizningmu xitay türmilirige bérip tekshürüsh élip bérishigha ruxset qilishini telep qilimiz.”

Axbarat élan qilish yighinining axirida, dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanim söz qildi. Rabiye qadir xanim xitayning uyghur diyarini ishghal qilghandin béri qattiq basturush siyasiti yürgüzüp kéliwatqanliqini tonushturdi.

Rabiye qadir xanim sözide yene, amérika xelqidin gunahsiz ölüwatqan uyghurlarni qutquzuwélishini telep qildi.

Yuqiridiki awaz ulinishidin, bu heqtiki melumatimizning tepsilatini anglaysiler.

Urumqi: a Quiet “Open Prison”
2009-07-10 : Source; RFA

A man contacted by RFA in Urumqi tells about his fears while the official Chinese media strive to portray a city under control and life back to normal.

Official Chinese media are describing the city of Urumqi as “quiet” following several days of ethnic violence between Muslim Uyghurs and the majority Han Chinese.

Chinese People’s Armed Police in front of the Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, on July 9.

“Major streets in Urumqi seemed peaceful Friday,” said the official Xinhua news agency.

“Life back to normal in Urumqi,” said a caption over a Xinhua picture showing residents buying vegetables in a market.

But Uyghurs, who say their grievances are routinely ignored and suppressed as “separatism” by Beijing, describe the atmosphere as anything but normal.

One man in Urumqi, reached by telephone by RFA, said that for its Uyghur minority, Urumqi was “an open prison.”

Xinhua did acknowledge that “security remained tight” and that “some mosques were shut on Friday “for security reasons.”

By RFA’s count, only two mosques were open in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) with a population of 2.3 million people.

White mosque opened

On Friday, Uyghur men demanded that they be admitted to the White Mosque near the neighborhood where some of the worst violence occurred following Uyghur protests, a police crackdown, and ethnic clashes that left at least 184 dead, according to an official Xinhua report.

The police decided to open the mosque, apparently in order to avoid yet another clash.

According to the Associated Press, a group of 10 policemen blocked a small demonstration not far from the White Mosque.

About 40 Uyghur men and women “began to march, shouting, crying and pumping their fists in the air as they walked.”

“The Uyghur people are afraid,” said Madina Ahtam, a woman in a multicolored headscarf, who spoke English. “Do you understand? We are afraid. … The problem? Police.”

Police “pushed journalists away from the area and detained at least four foreign journalists, holding them for several hours.”

Death toll

China on Saturday issued its latest casualty figures – 137 ethnic Han Chinese and 46 Uyghurs. A man of Hui nationality was also reported to have been killed.

Many Uyghurs believe that this understates the Uyghur death toll.

In an interview on Friday with AP Television, Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uyghur leader, said that China’s casualty toll for the unrest has greatly understated the number of Uyghur killed.

The man contacted by RFA said that Uyghurs were currently unable to move freely around the city.

The man’s name is not disclosed in order to protect him from retaliation.

“We cannot go out freely,” he said. “Whenever they see some Uyghur people gathering up, they are forcing them to go inside.”

“Fully armed police are marching around in the street, in front of our doors. Just below my house, there are police officers, and they can break in and take me away at any time.”

This man seemed to express a kind desperation displayed by many in the city.

“The heart of the Uyghur people in our land is broken,” he said. “We can only ask God for help. No one is here to protect us.”

Foreign reactions

Overseas, The Organization of the Islamic (OIC) condemned the “disproportionate” use of force in Xinjiang, according to Agence France-Presse.

The OIC called on China to carry out an “honest” investigation into the clashes and find those responsible for the killings.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters that the issue should be taken to the United Nations’ Security Council.

The head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim political party, the Prosperous Justice Party, called for the U.N. and Western countries to put pressure on China to stop the “slaughter” of Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

Original reporting in Uyghur by Erkin. Uyghur service director: Dolkun Kamber. Written for the Web by Dan Southerland.

乌鲁木齐骚乱事件后周五形势综述
中国 | 2009.07.10
Source: 德国之声
据新华社报道，本周五，乌鲁木齐五座主要的清真寺关闭，但一些较小的清真寺开放。周五是穆斯林重要的祈祷日。数百名信众聚集在一座清真寺外抗议，被防暴警察驱散。通讯社报道称，成千上万心怀恐惧的人试图乘车离开乌鲁木齐。新疆西南部喀什市已宣布，出于安全考虑，包括记者在内的外国人必须离开喀什。

据路透社报道，周五，在乌鲁木齐一个维吾尔穆斯林社区，维吾尔人在结束祈祷活动离开时，发生了小规模抗议。防暴警察驱散了抗议人群，并带走数人。事件发生在白色清真寺。数百名维吾尔人聚集在清真寺外，试图加入寺内祈祷者的行列。此前，数百名祈祷者涌入了清真寺。防暴警察持半自动机枪，警车封锁了清真寺附近的道路，一架直升机在上空盘旋。有参加礼拜者表示，正常的祈祷时间被缩短。

在乌鲁木齐一些回民清真寺前，数百名信众开始在寺外大声呼喊后，清真寺也重新对信众开放。此前，在乌鲁木齐维吾尔聚居区大巴扎，有清真寺外贴出告示，称上级领导指示周五的祈祷活动暂时中止，请在家祈祷。路透社报道称，尽管目前仍有大批安全力量在乌鲁木齐，周五下午的祈祷活动仍将考验政府克制维吾尔人愤怒情绪的能力。本周二，汉人示威者袭击了乌鲁木齐的维吾尔社区。有维吾尔居民表示，周二有人员死亡的情况。尽管有维吾尔人和汉人发动袭击的报道，但三天以来，中国官方没有更新伤亡者的人数。

据法新社报道，周五，成千上万心怀恐惧的人涌向乌鲁木齐火车站和汽车站，希望离开乌鲁木齐市。有关部门表示已增加额外班次，但仍供不应求，有票贩子告诉记者票价已飙升至原价的五倍。在乌鲁木齐八一汽车站，一位官员告诉记者，约1万名乘客乘车离开乌鲁木齐，比平时的人数翻了一番。他表示，人数增加也与学生放假离开有关。据新华社周四报道，新疆交通厅已派遣108辆客车前往新疆高校运送学生返乡，已运送学生3850名。

据美联社报道，新疆西南部城市喀什官员表示，包括记者在内的外国人必须离开喀什。喀什外事办表示，尽管该市没有出现骚乱，但出于安全考虑仍作出这一决定。法新社一名记者和摄影师周五试图在著名的喀什艾提尕尔清真寺采访，被警方送回所在宾馆，并被要求其后离开喀什。法新社报道称，禁止外国记者在喀什报道与允许记者在乌鲁木齐报道形成鲜明反差。中国政府称后者是更大程度开放的表现。法新社还报道称，艾提尕尔清真寺本周一直关闭。此前新华社英文电讯称，该清真寺周五下午仍将开放。

另据法新社报道，周五，土耳其示威者在中国驻伊斯坦布尔领事馆前抗议，并焚烧中国制造的产品。据土耳其电视台NTV报道，来自一个消费者协会和支持维吾尔人组织的代表参加了抗议，并呼吁土耳其政府禁止中国产品。土耳其总统居尔周五对新疆骚乱表示忧虑，并呼吁北京“公开、客观、透明”地调查骚乱原因。居尔称，这是像中国这样的大国所应有的适当行为。不久前，居尔刚刚在访问中国时到访新疆。

土耳其总理埃尔多安周四表示，如果流亡维吾尔人热比娅申请前往土耳其，她将获得签证。2006年和2007年，土耳其曾拒绝了热比娅向土耳其驻华盛顿大使馆递交的签证申请。埃尔多安周三对新疆血腥骚乱表示忧虑，并呼吁北京保持克制。据美国之音报道，与新疆接壤的吉尔吉斯斯坦、哈萨克斯坦大规模从新疆撤回本国公民。哈萨克斯坦外交部周四表示，一名哈萨克公民在中国新疆的骚乱中受重伤。

据路透社报道，美国总统奥巴马的安全事务顾问琼斯呼吁中国领导人在处理新疆骚乱事件时保持“适度的克制”。

中国新华网周四发表文章，批评“西方媒体偏见仍随处可见”。文章表示，美国有线电视新闻网CNN和英国广播公司BBC等西方主流媒体都采访了“世界维吾尔大会”。文章还援引评论员分析称，外媒没有给出证据证明7月5日是和平示威。与此同时，博讯网刊登文章，批评中新网“中国学会面对外国媒体”一文对《泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》等断章取义，仅摘出个别语句证明“中方反应赢得外媒一致肯定”。

新疆暴乱最初导火线 竟是韶关女工的一声尖叫
南洋网 2009-07-09 19:59:18

造成156人死亡、逾千人伤的乌鲁木齐大暴乱，最初的导火线，竟是广东韶关旭日玩具厂一名19岁见习女工的一声尖叫。

据新华社英文通稿报道，这名女工当天走错了路，误闯进了男工宿舍，见到了几名维族青年就尖叫起来，然后掉头拔腿就跑。这名见习女工叫黄翠莲（译音），来自广东的农村，她受访时说，自己也不知道为何当时会害怕到尖叫起来：“我只是觉得他们来意不善，因此掉头拔腿就跑。” 她记得当时其中一名维族青年站了起来，将脚用力在地板上踩了一下，好像要追她似的，她后来才知道原来那名维族青年只是在捉弄她。

让黄翠莲万万想不到的是，这一声尖叫竟让人误会她被维族青年性侵犯了，先是引发厂内维汉两族工人的冲突，进而触发乌鲁木齐大暴动。她自己也是在冲突后数小时才知道发生了什么事。

韶关6月26日的玩具厂集体斗殴事件是由“维族工人性侵犯一名汉族女孩”的指责而引发的，斗殴事件最终造成2死、逾百人伤。

耐人寻味的是，与黄翠莲的独家访问，新华社只发布了英文报道，而没有中文报道，相当明显的，报道是针对国际媒体而发的。

据了解，黄翠莲与家人在斗殴事件后面对极大的压力，黄翠莲的父亲原本不愿让女儿接受媒体访问，新华社是透过关系，以及对其父亲的“思想教育”，才劝服他让女儿受访。

据报道，黄翠莲的父亲要求访问期间不能拍照、不能录音，报道里更不能提到女儿的名字（英文报道里只有名字的拼音）。访问在一家宾馆内进行，由新华社一名女记者负责采访，一切的安排都只为缓和黄翠莲的情绪。至于黄翠莲的遭遇，后来是怎么传播开来，最后演变成她遭性侵的谣言，新华社的报道未进一步说明。

此前的媒体报道指出，6月16日，韶关家园网“市民心声”栏目有网民发帖称：韶关旭日玩具厂里“6个新疆的男孩强奸了2个无辜少女”，帖子后来被转载到了许多网站上。斗殴事件发生后，公安经查没有发现旭日玩具厂曾发生女工被强奸案件；5月份以来，旭日玩具厂所在的韶关市武江区也没有发生过强奸案件。

6月28日，警方查获了有关发帖者，后者承认在网上发布虚假信息，自称原为旭日玩具厂员工，辞职后再次应聘被拒，因心怀不满而发布该帖。广东公安部门后来刑拘了2名涉嫌在网络上制造和传播谣言者，中新社昨天并在在韶关市看守所采访了其中一人——一名24岁的朱姓男子，他说自己发到帖子上的东西“全是听说的”。

土耳其外交部声明 无意干涉中国内政
2009-07-10 : Source: RFA

中国外交部发言人星期五在回答有关土耳其准备把“乌鲁木齐事件”拿到联合国讨论的问题时回答说，这是中国的内政。土耳其外交部面对上述回答也立即发表声明说，土耳其没有干涉中国内政的意图。自由亚洲电台记者万东土耳其报道

鉴于土耳其将把“新疆事件”提议联合国讨论，中国外交部发言人星期五宣布，这是中国的内政。但土耳其外交部随后也在当天傍晚立即发表书面声明，对中方的上述答复作出了回应。

土耳其外交部宣布，土耳其十分重视中国的领土完整，主权以及国家中的全体民族团体在和平、安宁与繁荣中生活。土耳其没有干涉中国内政的意图，同时也不可能有。

声明又说，自7月5日到今天，新疆维吾尔自治区的情况继续成为土耳其的头号议程，我们期待中国当局在保持理智和采取措施中能使局势恢复正常。土耳其非常重视同中国的关系，我们希望作为两国友好桥梁关系的维吾尔人，能在和平安全与安宁中生活，中国当局有必要采取相应的措施。我们认为这是国际社会和土耳其的合理期待。

星期五，土耳其全国各地的所有清真寺都为7•5事件丧生的维吾尔突厥人举行了象征性的葬礼。

土耳其总统居尔在做完礼拜之后，向媒体发表声明时，回忆起不久前曾访问过新疆乌鲁木齐的情景。

他说，“我那时看到的人民，今天处境艰难，这怎么能不令我遗憾和担忧呢？我们的不安是合情合理的。在乌鲁木齐举行的文化活动中，我看到了我们同维吾尔突厥人的亲戚关系是何等的强大，乌鲁木齐所展现在我们面前的情况，以及青年男女载歌载舞的场面，再次体现出我们的关系是何等的根深蒂固。现在当看到那里的人民陷入巨大困境，实在令人不安。但愿中国政府面对这一事件，能以客观与公正且富有透明度的方式来进行评估。这是符合中国这样一个大国身份的做法。特别是面对罪犯，有必要以透明度的方式说清他们的犯罪情况，以最佳方式保护我们的维吾尔同胞，对我们而言，最为重要的是让我们的兄弟在自己的国家中自由和幸福。”

土耳其总理埃尔多安也在出席8国集团峰会的意大利发表讲话时再次将“新疆事件”称为残暴。

埃尔多安说：“我在土耳其曾使用残暴这个词。面对这一屠杀，难道能用其他词汇来表达吗？因为，上百人被杀，上千人受伤，一边你强调人权，一边强调全球价值，另一边你则对此置之不理，这是不对的！”

与此同时，土耳其民间组织继续在中国驻安卡拉大使馆和中国驻伊斯坦布尔总领事馆举行抗议示威游行。星期五，土耳其消费者协会代表在中国领馆门前焚烧中国商品，同时呼吁土耳其 民众禁止使用中国货，以抗议中国警察杀害维吾尔人。

以上是自由亚洲电台记者万东土耳其报道。

土耳其总理形容新疆骚乱为”屠杀”
2009年07月10日 : Source :BBC

土耳其伊斯坦布尔的反中国集会

土耳其总理埃尔多安说，最近新疆发生的维吾尔族穆斯林同汉族的暴力是”屠杀”。

中国政府此前透露，有137名汉族和46名维族人上周日在乌鲁木齐发生的民族骚乱中身亡，一千多人受伤。

但是土耳其内部和其他地方许多人对中国保安部队处理骚乱的方式发出批评。

埃尔多安说，骚乱是残酷的暴行，他敦促中国迅速采取行动恢复秩序。

有报道说，周五（7月10日）祈祷过后，在乌鲁木齐一个清真寺附近，防暴警察同举行抗议的一些维吾尔人又发生了摩擦。

之前中国当局曾下令关闭清真寺。

早些时候，土耳其总理埃尔多安承诺向流亡美国的世界维吾尔人大会主席热比娅发放签证。

热比娅被中国当局指为最近新疆暴力事件的幕后主使。

此前，热比娅抱怨，她曾经两次提出申请，都遭到拒签。

中国新疆自治区首府乌鲁木齐近来发生的暴力事件引起了土耳其民众以及媒体的强烈不满。

China reimposes curfew in Urumqi
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Mosques Reopen After Riots in Xinjiang, China

Turkish leader calls Xinjiang killings "genocide"
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Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:25pm EDT

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Friday genocide was being committed in China's northwest province of Xinjiang and called on Chinese authorities to intervene to prevent more deaths.

"The incidents in China are, simply put, a genocide. There's no point in interpreting this otherwise," Erdogan said.

Rioting between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang has killed 156 people and wounded more than 1,000 in the worst ethnic violence in China in decades. Both Uighurs and the Han have claimed a higher death toll from the strife.

"We're having trouble understanding how the Chinese government would remain a bystander to this," Erdogan told reporters in comments broadcast live on NTV television. "We want the Chinese administration, with which our bilateral ties are continuously improving, to show sensitivity."

Muslim Turkey shares linguistic and religious links with Uighurs, and Turkish nationalists see Xinjiang as the easternmost frontier of Turkic ethnicity. Thousands of Uighur immigrants live in Turkey.

Turkey has sought to boost ties with China, the world's third-biggest economy. President Abdullah Gul last month became the first Turkish president to visit China in 15 years, signing $1.5 billion worth of trade deals, according to Turkish media.

Turkey's Industry Minister Thursday called on Turks to boycott Chinese goods to protest the violence in Xinjiang, but a spokesman said this was the minister's personal view and not government policy.

Thursday, Erdogan said Turkey would grant a visa to exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, who is based in the United States. Kadeer told Turkish television that Turkish authorities had twice denied her visa application to visit the country.

(Writing by Ayla Jean Yackley)

Uyghur women lead protests in restive west China

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By WILLIAM FOREMAN and GILLIAN WONG
July 10

URUMQI, China (AP) — The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam then railed against communist rule in China's far western region of Xinjiang, rocked by ethnic rioting that has killed at least 184 people this week.

The 26-year-old businesswoman eventually led the crowd of mostly men in a fist-pumping street march that was quickly blocked by riot police, some with automatic rifles pointed at the protesters.

The incident was one of many examples of how Muslim women have been taking bold leadership roles following the deadliest communal violence in decades in the Xinjiang region. As the communist government launches a sweeping security crackdown, the women have faced down troops, led protests and risked arrest by speaking out against police tactics they believe are excessive.

Chinese leaders have alleged that a woman masterminded the rioting in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi. They blame activist Rebiya Kadeer, a 62-year-old businesswoman who was once the government's favorite Uighur success story. But she began criticizing communist rule, served time in prison and eventually went into exile in the U.S. She has repeatedly denied instigating the violence.

Women have been on the front line in Urumqi partly because more than 1,400 men in the Muslim Uighur minority have been rounded up by police since ethnic rioting broke out July 5.

China's official Xinhua News Agency said late Friday that the death toll has risen to 184, with 137 of the victims belonging to the dominant Han ethnic group. The Han victims included 111 men and 26 women, the report said. The rest of the deaths were 45 men and one woman who were Muslim Uighurs, along with one man of the Hui ethnic group, Xinhua said, citing the information office of the regional government.

The violence came as the Uighurs were protesting the June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers in a brawl in southern China. The crowd then scattered throughout Urumqi, attacking Han Chinese, burning cars and smashing windows.

Many Uighurs who are still free live in fear of being arrested for any act of dissent.

Thousands of Chinese troops have flooded into Urumqi to separate the feuding ethnic groups, and a senior Communist Party official vowed to execute those guilty of murder in the rioting.

At the Group of Eight summit in Italy, Gen. James Jones, the U.S. national security adviser, urged two Chinese diplomats "to ensure that government forces act with appropriate restraint," according to a senior Obama administration official, who described the meeting to reporters on condition of anonymity because of White House ground rules.

In many Uighur neighborhoods during the crisis in Urumqi, the women did much of the talking with reporters as the men gathered in small groups on street corners and in back alleys, speaking quietly among themselves.

"I can't speak freely. The police could come any minute and haul me away," said a Uighur man who would only identify himself as Alim.

But on Friday, some men challenged officials when they showed up for prayers at Urumqi's popular White Mosque and found the gate closed. Officials had earlier said the mosque would be closed for public safety reasons as security forces tried to pacify the capital.

The mosque was eventually opened when the crowd swelled and there was a threat of unrest, police said.

Most Muslim Uighurs practice a moderate form of Sunni Islam or follow the mystical Sufism tradition. The women often work and lead an active social life outside the home. Many wear brightly colored head scarves but the custom is not strongly enforced. Young Uighur women often wear jeans, formfitting tops and dresses.

As the faithful streamed into the White Mosque, Ahtam arrived holding a lilac umbrella and told foreign reporters in broken English, "Toilet no open. No water."

She led reporters to an area where the faithful are supposed to cleanse themselves before prayers and said with tears running down her cheeks, "Washing room not open. Everybody no wash."

After the prayers, she continued speaking on the sidewalk and attracted about 40 people who applauded when she criticized the government.

"Every Uighur people are afraid. Do you understand? We are afraid. Chinese people are very happy. Why?" said Ahtam, who wore a blue head scarf and leopard-print blouse.

The government believes the Uighurs should be grateful for Xinjiang's rapid economic development, which has brought new schools, highways, airports, railways, natural gas fields and oil wells in the sprawling, rugged Central Asian region, three times the size of Texas.

But many of the Turkic-speaking Uighurs, with a population of 9 million in Xinjiang, accuse the dominant Han ethnic group of discriminating against them and saving all the best jobs for themselves. Many also say the Communist Party is repressive and tries to snuff out their Islamic faith, language and culture.

As Ahtam's crowd became more agitated, about 20 riot police with clubs marched toward the group. The Uighurs pumped their fists in the air and walked down the street with Ahtam leading the pack.

About 200 more riot police arrived and cut off the group, with some of the security forces kneeling down and pointing their automatic rifles at the marchers. Foreign reporters were led to a side alley, out of view of the protesters, who were forced to squat on the sidewalk along a row of shuttered shops.

Hours later, calls to Ahtam's cell phone went unanswered and it was unknown what happened to her.

Police quickly closed off parts of major thoroughfare for much of the afternoon after the protest. In the past two days, the capital had been moving closer to its normal state, but Ahtam's simple protest about the public toilet showed how volatile the situation is and how quickly it can regress.

Women led another protest Tuesday — one day after they said police rounded up 300 men in their neighborhood, a hot spot during the July 5 rioting. Foreign journalists visited the area during an official government media tour that was supposed to highlight the damage done during the violence.

But the trip backfired when the Uighur women emerged from a market nearby and began crying and complaining about missing husbands and sons. They screamed in the faces of the hundreds of riot police who were mobilized to shut down their spontaneous protest.

Later in the week, the women were less willing to talk, but some met with foreign reporters in side streets and complained.

"We haven't had any news about our husbands. We haven't been allowed to call," said one woman, who only gave part of her name, Guli.

Most of the arrested suspects were Uighur men, and police and witnesses have said they used rocks, sticks and knives to brutally and randomly kill their victims. Officials have said many of the targets were women.

In other parts of Xinjiang, the city of Kashgar, near the Pakistan border, was declared off-limits to reporters in all but name. Foreign reporters were not allowed to leave their hotels, except to go to the airport. An Associated Press photographer was detained repeatedly and escorted to the airport. The effect was to make it impossible for reporters to work.

Associated Press writer Charles Babington contributed to this report from L'Aquila, Italy.

欧议会将召开全会讨论新疆事件
【大纪元7月10日讯】（大纪元记者李孜布鲁塞尔报导）2009年欧盟大选产生的新一届欧洲议会将于下星期召开第一次全体会议。根据7月10日欧洲议会公布的会议日程，中国的新疆问题将是大会讨论的一个主题。针对最近在新疆发生的造成大量人员伤亡的暴力事件，欧洲议会的几大政党均已表示严重关注，并谴责对人权的侵犯。

在 7月10日上午举行的新闻发布会上，欧洲议会最大的党团欧洲人民党的发言人表示，强力支持欧洲议会主席普特林本星期一发表的声明。该声明表示严重关切在新疆发生的对示威者的杀害，并呼吁各方保持冷静和克制，尤其是中国当局在行为上应该尊重人的尊严和基本人权，包括言论自由与和平示威的权利。

社会党则明确谴责任何形式的暴力行为，要求中国当局给与人民自由。欧议会第三大党自由党的发言人表示。刚卸任的党主席华生(Graham Watson)对中国人权的态度一贯是强硬的，他将代表该党在议会全会上发言。

绿党一直严厉谴责中国的人权问题，如众所周知的北京奥运前后的人权迫害等。在7月8日，绿党就发表声明，要求欧盟必须向中共施压，已停止在新疆及其他地区的人权侵犯。欧洲议会中国代表团成员、绿党议员赫伽·图鲁蓓（Helga Trupel)说，“这些骚乱是中共对维吾尔少数民族镇压政策的直接结果。”

欧洲议会主席普特林在星期一的声明中还呼吁中国当局允许当地和国际媒体完全自由地进行他们的工作，包括无限制的使用网络。

7月7日星期二，欧盟轮值主席国瑞典代表欧盟发表声明，严重关注新疆的骚乱，对受害人的亲人表示同情，同时要求尊重包括言论与和平集会自由在内的所有人权。

欧州议会的该项讨论预计下星期三在法国斯特拉斯堡举行。

世界媒体继续关注中国新疆危机
2009年07月10日 : Source: BBC

英国报章有关中港台的报道和评论：(2009年7月10日)

近几天的各大报纸继续大版篇幅关注中国新疆的危机。几乎所有报纸都刊登了大批武警在乌鲁木齐列队行进的大幅照片。

维吾尔大妈拄着拐杖独自面对防暴警察

数家报纸登载了一位维吾尔大妈拄着拐杖独自面对防暴警察的照片和故事，并把它同20年前天安门六四事件时一位青年只身阻挡一列坦克的情景相比。

胡锦涛提前回国的考虑

星期四的《独立报》刊登一篇分析文章， 题目是为什么胡锦涛提前离开八国峰会。文章说由于新疆骚乱，本来作为一个新兴大国应邀参加世界富国俱乐部的中国领导人却因为自家后院闹事，不得不匆忙离开，实在是令人感到尴尬。
文章说，在世界陷入经济危机之际，中国首先想到的就是如何根除那些可能引起社会动荡的隐患，例如失业的民工，农村闲置人口等。但没有想到让他们措手不及的是新疆维吾尔族所爆发的骚乱。 文章分析说这是中国的民族政策所导致的结果。
尽管中国在新疆兴建了现代化的清真寺，盖了新市场等等，但对当地的维吾尔族来说，他们的民族特性以及生计被”外来的”汉民所淹没。
文章还评论说新疆的地理位置紧邻中亚，中国的能源需求也依赖于中亚，因此太得罪穆斯林中国也担待不起，因为如果这样，它不仅会成为中国的一个棘手问题，对外部的世界也构成问题。
文章最后说当胡锦涛决定离开八国峰会时，他要做出的选择是，放弃一次与世界强国领导人聚会的机会，还是中国国内的稳定更重要？显然，他选择了后者。
周四《金融时报〉对新疆骚乱事件的一篇分析文章表示，新疆社会的不平等搅动了分离主义的情绪。文章说，对许多维吾尔人来说，在这个社会中，他们的意见很少能够听到，他们没有得到好处。新疆爆发的骚乱正是根植于这种深深的社会问题里。

美国的尴尬

新疆乌鲁木齐大湾南路跑马场地段多辆公交车被烧毁(5/7/2009)
乌鲁木齐发生骚乱，多辆公交车被烧
同一天《金融时报〉的另一篇文章谈到美国对新疆骚乱的矛盾心态。文章说，有那么一刻，美国明显在如何对新疆问题作出回应的问题上感到很不自在。

在本周同俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫举行的新闻发布会上，美国总统奥巴马被要求对新疆骚乱和中国随后的镇压发表评论。
一脸不自在的奥巴马以自己’整夜都在旅行，整个白天都在开会’ 没有得到全面的情况汇报为由回避了对此发表任何言论，只是说美国会发表一份公开声明。
美国政府最终的声明说，美国对新疆事件’深表关注’，’呼吁各方保持克制’。美国没有像流亡维吾尔人所提出的那样，呼吁北京展开对话。
《金融时报〉的文章指出，新疆事件是对华盛顿是否愿意在这个人权人士称为全球关注的问题上勇于表明自己立场的一个最有代表性的考验。
《金融时报〉说，对于美国在这一问题上的心态，许多维吾尔人表示，华盛顿和世界其他国家的政府对于维吾尔人在新疆受到不公正待遇的关注要远远少于对藏人处境的关注。他们认为，维吾尔人由于是穆斯林而受到了歧视。
此外，美国和其他国家的政府在同中国双边关系中有许多需要优先考虑的问题。他们也不愿意由于新疆问题增加可能干扰他们同中国双边关系的因素。
文章说，世界维吾尔大会的主席热比娅在接受《金融时报〉采访时表示，国际缺乏关注在一定程度上鼓励了中国政府的镇压行动。她还表示’希望国际社会和美国最高层在这个问题上采取强硬立场’。不过，迄今为止，这一愿望尚未实现。

改变外媒政策

英国报摘
另外，星期三的《国际先驱论坛报》以及星期四的《卫报》都对这次中国对待外国媒体报道新疆骚乱政策的转变作了报道。
《国际先驱论坛报〉的文章说，在新疆骚乱爆发以后，中国采取了固有的防范措施，诸如封网、掐断电话线，只允许中国媒体采用新华社的报道等，但是这次中国同时还采取了一个最不寻常的步骤，那就是在暴乱被平息后的几个小时之内，中国就邀请外国媒体进入乌鲁木齐进行报道。政府还在那里设立了一个新闻中心。

文章评论说中国变得更精明了，它吸取了过去的教训，尤其是去年西藏暴乱的教训，它更知道如何来利用媒体了。

但《卫报》的报道说，尽管如此，对外国记者的骚扰并没有完全消失，文章说据在中国的外国记者协会报告，新疆的保安部队拘留了一些记者，并没收了一些器材，其中还损毁了一架摄像机。

《卫报〉的文章还说虽然对外国记者的限制放宽，但对中国国内的媒体报道则仍然严格，国内的媒体不能独立的报道，只能使用新华社和中央电视台的通稿。当然更不允许所谓的公民报道，一些网上论坛的讨论和网页全部受到审查。

文章说这次中国政府处理媒体报道的手法改变的部分原因是他们想取得国际的同情，因为此次死亡的大多数人是汉人，当然还有由于去年西藏暴乱中国压制外国媒体报道所造成的负面影响等。

Ürümchining bügünki weziyiti
Source: RFA
2009-07-09

Yekshenbe küni ürümchide namayish qilghan uyghurlargha xitay xewpsizlik xadimlirining oq chiqirishi bilen bashlanghan weqe dunyada küchlük ghulghula yaratti. Birleshken döletler teshkilati , yawropa parlaménti, amérika, rusiye we türkiye bu weqege bolghan pozitsiyisini bildürdi.

7 - Ayning 8 - Küni, türkiye bash ministiri rejep tayyip erdoghan ürümchidiki qirghinchiliqni “bu wehshilik” dep éyibligen idi. Süret, erdoghanning bügünki türk metbuatlirigha qilghan bayanatida, d u q reisi rabiye qadir xanimning türkiyige kélishi üchün wiza béridighanliqini éytiwatqan körünüsh.

7 - Ayning 8 - Küni türkiye bash ministiri rejep tayyip erdoghan “bu wehshilik” dep bayanat bergen idi. Bash ministir rejep tayyip erdoghan bügün türk metbuatlirigha bayanat bérip, dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanimning türkiyige kélishi üchün wiza béridighanliqini éytti.

Bu xewer türkiye téléwiziyiliride élan qilinghandin kéyin, dunya uyghur qurultiyi muawin reisi séyit tümtürk n t w ge bayanat bérip, uyghurlar namidin türkiye bash ministiri rejep tayyip erdoghangha minnetdarliqini bildürdi. Del bu zamanda türkiye sanaet ministiri nihat ergül pütün türkiye xelqini xitay malini almasliqqa chaqirdi.

Türk xelqi dukanliridiki xitay mallirini sirtqa tashlashqa bashlidi. Bügün axsham dunya uyghur qurultiyi reisi rabiye qadir xanim türkiyining eng chong téléwiziyiliridin biri bolghan show t w ge chiqip türkiye bash ministiri rejep tayyip erdoghangha türkiye dölitige rexmet éytti we xitayning éyibleshlirige reddiye bildürdi.

Bügün yeni peyshenbe küni ürümchining weziyiti qandaq? türkiye dölet téléwiziyisi t rt türk qanili muxbiri lewent ulucher ependining 7 - Ayning 9 - Küni ürümchi kochilirini aylinip yürüp bergen melumatlargha qarighanda, xitaylar yéngidin 22 ming eskerni ürümchige yötkep kélip chong kichik kochilarda herbiy mashiniliri bilen charlawatqan, tik uchar ayropilanlar biler teshwiqat waraqchisi tarqitiwatqan.

Teshwiqat waraqlirida milliy ittipaqliqni kücheyteyli, xitaylar bilen uyghurlar qérindash dégendek xetler yézilghan iken. Ürümchining hazirqi weziyiti heqqide lewent ulucher mexsus xewer berdi.

Yuqiridiki awaz ulinishidin, bu heqtiki melumatimizning tepsilatini anglaysiler.