H/T Hermes
The Hindu:
China has in the past blamed Uighur groups in Xinjiang, some with ties to groups based in Pakistan, for carrying out violent attacks in Kashgar and Hotan, southern cities which are close to the border with PoK.
At least 21 people have been killed in violence in China’s far western Xinjiang region in Kashgar, a prefecture which borders Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and has been the site of intermittent bomb attacks and ethnic unrest.
Fifteen people, including police officers and community workers, were killed in violence on Tuesday afternoon, State media reported. Six others, described by the authorities as “mobsters” who were planning a terror attack, had been shot dead by police, while eight suspects had been arrested.
The attacks took place in the Bachu county of Kashgar, a county in the far-western “autonomous region” which is predominantly inhabited by Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic Turkic group and one of China’s 55 minorities.
China is going to fight hard to protect its culture (what the communists left of it) and the land they conquered.
I never, ever thought that I would have some sympathy towards the Beijing regime, but at least they have the balls to call a spade a spade. China may be a police state and a brutal oligarchy but as long as you don’t criticize the ‘benign’ dictatorship, nor rock the political boat, you have a surprising amount of freedom. I’ve been there a few times and compared to my trips to the Middle East, China (whilst still a shit-hole) is a relative paradise.
The Chinese have the measure of the Muslims in a way that we in the West don’t. They don’t tolerate such crap.
Try whinging about Mohammed and Sharia law in China and see how far you get!