An interesting "scene setting" article
From Prospect magazine:
Quote:
The final stretch on the road to Yarkand, about 125 miles from China’s border with Pakistan, feels like the middle east. Each village is a collage of single-storey mud-brick homes with turquoise door-gates. People travel by donkey cart or scooter-rickshaw. Men greet each other the Muslim way (palm to the chest and a slight bow); women wear headscarves. In small villages many signs are still in Uighur, the local language. But for how much longer?
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Turkey attacks China 'genocide'
This BBC News report starts with the Turkish Prime Minister calling what has happened 'genocide' and then provides an update on the situation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8145451.stm
Amazing that the Chinese have not stopped media arriving, but have detained some. IIRC the BBC had a reporter in town when this started, just like they did when Lhasa riots started.
davidbfpo
AQIM threatens Chinese workers
A UK newspaper story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ur-deaths.html
Appears to be based on a London-based analyst monitoring of websites; I am puzzled at the citing of 'the 50,000 Chinese workers in Algeria and elsewhere in Northern Africa'.
davidbfpo
Central and South America, too. Plus Canada...
I guess it's pretty easy to be that "busy"
When you can send a couple hundred million out and still break even for the largest population in the world.:eek:
HMMM