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Uighurs protest in Sweden against oppression in China
Jul 9, 2009, 15:24 GMT
Stockholm - Some 150 people, mainly Uighurs, Thursday protested against the ongoing clampdown and unrest in western China where Uighurs and Han Chinese groups have clashed.
After speeches near parliament, the protesters marched to the Chinese embassy where two protesters were detained after throwing stones at police but there were no injuries, a police spokeswoman told the German Press Agency dpa.
Three other protesters were arrested for rioting, she added.
'We share the pain and sorrow that my brothers and sisters feel over what is happening,' Mehmet Kaplan, a Turkish-born member of parliament for the opposition Green Party, told protesters.
'This has been ongoing for decades,' Kaplan said in Swedish before switching to Turkish, adding that the Uighurs were treated as 'third class citizens.'
Protesters waved blue and white flags and placards, chanted slogans against the Chinese government and called for the international community to intervene in Xinjiang.
A 26-year-old Uighur, who has applied for asylum in Sweden, told the German Press Agency dpa that he had been unable to reach his family in recent days as Chinese authorities had cut internet and telephone lines to Urumqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang.
He maintained that the official toll of 156 dead was inaccurate, and did not reflect the full scale of violence.
Sweden is the current holder of the rotating presidency of the European Union and late Tuesday issued a statement voicing 'strong concern over the unrest in Xinjiang' and urging 'restraint on all sides.'
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...hardly speak for all chinese americans, dickhead. That being the case, let me tell you about the rest of Americans...well..the one's like me.
Keep us out of your Bullsh-t.
As for the swedes, all I can recommend is make sure you do not become the pulpit for these folks.
The so-called western media has NO credibility among the 1.4 billion CHINESE around the globe and we WILL make it our business to discredit these mouth pieces of white christian devil propaganda in EVERY corner of the planet.
The jidujiao bai gui can help incite all they want, we will further discredit the failed white capitalist system and their so-called western democracy.
Now, to the Uighurs.
Those Uighurs that do NOT like CHINA are FREE to leave. GO TO Turkey and stay there for the rest of your miserable lives.
There is a reason why Asians NEVER accepted Turkey as an Asian country and do NOT like Turkish people.
I am NOT surprised that the European countries have had problems with accepting Turkey in the so-called EU.
I fully understand why Greece HATES everything about Turkey.
We CHINESE can NOT and will NEVER accept good relations with Turkey, despite the Turkish president having visited CHINA very recently.
Those ethnic Uighurs that do decide to live in CHINA will have to make a choice where their loyalties lie.
Otherwise they will be driven OUT of CHINA all the way back to Turkey where they came from.
Remember! CHINA belongs to the CHINESE people.
WARNINGRemember the love affair between the prostitute Osama Bin Laden and the USA . Uighurs seems very attractive too . Invite her in. Cloth and feed her and she will turn into a beast.
[Rev. 17]
turks protest and boycott chinese? they lost their mind. who is facist? the riot uyghurs killed so many hans and hui people, chinese goverment is oo weak to reaction.
uyhurs is not turkish, they are decents of mongolia and huns, it is far away from turkish.
you turks should learn what is truth, otherwise you will be losers.
staring today, china should send all kind of weapons to kurdish people, let turks learn something
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kalibabaJul 9th, 2009 - 15:47:52
Chinese Americans do not have any sympathy to 'mother mulah' Kadeer or any of her uighurs carzy muslim nuts. the majority of Chinese Americans do not have ill wishes towards either China - our ancestors' home land or Chinese people -- our brothers and sisters by blood. China has Chinese Americans' full support!
China should and will rule these crazy uighurs thugs by 'blood and iron'. As a Chinese, I am really proud of the bloody blow Chinese government has dealt to these uighurs thugs.
Chinese leaders should follow the footsteps of Bismarck - China ' must collect and keep its strength for the right moment, which has been missed several times already'; China's 'frontiers ?. are not conducive to a healthy national life; it is not by means of speeches and majority resolutions that the great issues of the day will be decided-that was the great mistake ?.-but by blood and iron'!
in Just one night - 2000 crazy muslim nuts/uighurs seperatists rioters and 140+ shot dead and 1400+ arrests and 800 casualties - wow! That will surely teach those uighurs mulah nuts and tibetan monks a serious lesson - do not ever mess with CHINESE!
the extraordinary harshness and swiftness of the crack down and the promptness the government handled it and anounced it tells the world loud and clear - the Chinese Nation bears absolutely no mercy towards seperation by any minorities. China has Chinese Americans' full support!
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