So would I, but I’ve been waiting more than twenty years already, and some people have been waiting sixty.

China may appear to have reneged on its Maoist Communist ideals but it only appears that way, the leadership, like every other totalitarian regime, past and present, doesn’t like descent. The people, like all people past and present don’t like totalitarian regimes, sooner or later there will be trouble, I am astonished it has taken as long as it has to come to a head.

In my view, things are going to get a lot worse and not only for the Uighurs, China has to expand its territory, its population is too big. Imperialism draped in the hide all cloak of communism. Another People sacrificed for the good of the people.
Islamists must be extremely pissed off about this turn of events, there is hardly enough caves in Pakistan to go around as it is. The Bin Laden boys don’t want to open up to many fronts, they said as much last year re China I think?
The West is top of the Islamist Fantasy Football League, China can wait until all the other infidels have been ‘converted’, yeah right, they will be waiting a very, very, very long time, me thinks, and lets not forget, China is not like the”West” They don’t go a bundle on the Human Rights deal, so I can Imagine why the Islamist Lunatics may be a bit scared of “taking on” the Chinese.

PS, I heard most of the dead are Han Chinese, Not Uighurs, not sure how accurate the reports are, anyone have any reliable figures re ethnicity of fatalities. I did not recieve any replies to this question at Spitoon. I realize accurate Information from Chinese crackdowns is hard to come by but does anyone know if the numbers of Han fatalities are merely Chinese propaganda? I do not wish to diminish the sadness felt, the horror experienced or the outrage expressed the people of the region by asking for accurate figures, I would simply like to hear the truth from China.

He further added, “We will be writing to the Union of Jewish Students and the Community Security Trust asking for clarification and further details of these incidents with the view to assisting in anyway we can in the prevention of such acts in future.”

You will not be surprised to discover that we are still waiting to hear from them. Must be the postal strike.

The Chinese Communists may never have engaged in anything quite like Soviet and post-Soviet Russian activities in territories inside and outside of its control, but given China’s patronage of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, it’s continued relations with Iran and its relationship to events in Darfur, they haven’t exactly been wallflowers.