我最近读到的第一个比较客观的西方媒体关于新疆事件的报道

Times Online

Search for Han Chinese sister whose family were butchered by Uighur
July 10, 2009
Jane Macartney in Urumqi

What was once a grocery shop is now a blackened mess. Two boys in shorts and singlets play in the rubble but the usual occupants are absent. Five days ago a Han Chinese family was butchered in this small shop — victims of the Uighurs who rampaged through Urumqi.

Yu Dongzhi described how he clawed through the smoking ruins of the store to search for the family who lived there. He hoped to find his sister, Yu Xinli; her husband, Zhang Mingying; their 13-year-old son; her elderly mother-in-law; and a nephew aged 27.

The police helped him to dig among sacks of flour and bottles of rice wine melted by the heat of the blaze.

He found no survivors, only four bodies. He has yet to discover the fate of his sister.

Mr Yu is a heavily built man in his fifties and more than 6ft, but he almost weeps with despair. “I just hope I can find my sister in an intensive care unit of one of the hospitals. But so far, nothing.”

He has checked the mortuaries and photo galleries of unclaimed bodies held by the police, but his sister was not among them.

He has been refused access to the intensive care units. “I don’t say that I want to go in to disturb these very sick people, but why can’t they show us photographs of the injured? At least then I could find my sister,” he said.

Mr Yu cannot bear to think that she may have been dragged away by the rioters and murdered.

Just coping with the deaths of his sister’s family has almost overwhelmed him. The bodies were among the corpses whose pictures have been carried in local newspapers. So shocking was the family tragedy that one newspaper carried a special report on it, Police have confirmed the killings.

As The Times stood outside what is left of No 447 Zhongwan Street, a Han neighbour approached. She had watched the killings from her home in an apartment block overlooking the store.

“We saw hundreds of Uighurs running down the street on the afternoon of July 5. About ten suddenly rushed into the store. They began to hit the people inside, even the old mother, with bricks and stones. They tried to run outside. Then they were dragged back inside.

“There were terrible screams. Just wordless screams. But then very quickly they fell silent.”

She said that the son tried to hide in a chicken coop but was dragged out and his head was cut off. All the victims were left to burn inside the building. The corpses of the boy and his father were found beheaded. Mr Yu said: “Even the 84-year-old mother was stoned and then burnt. It was terrible, terrible. So cruel.”

Mr Yu made his way yesterday to a temporary emergency centre in an Urumqi hotel. At some desks clerks helped Han and Uighurs to process requests for compensation for damaged cars or destroyed businesses.

In a corner, two women waited at a desk for families seeking missing loved ones or reporting the deaths of relatives. This was where Mr Yu hoped to find help in the hunt for his sister. Officials were unable to explain what he could do next.

He sat in the hotel room-turned-office surrounded by relatives, just waiting. “I still have to keep up my hopes,” he said.

Mr Yu is too busy looking for his sister to organise the funerals for her family. That painful task will come next.

More than a decade ago his brother-in-law moved from central Henan province to run a successful business in a district with a high proportion of ethnic Uighur residents. “Perhaps they were jealous of his success. They clearly targeted the family. It looked as if they had decided in advance to pick on my sister. The police are pursuing the case and they have made some arrests,” said Mr Yu.

Nearby, a Uighur family run a small restaurant. The man shrugged when asked about the family who only a week ago ran a thriving business. He refused to talk about his late Han neighbours.

我智斗“世维会”纪实 – 转贴

2009年7月8日，我智斗“世维会”纪实

世维会, 纪实, 智斗

我昨晚在世维会（WUC）的网站上看到他们今 天要在其总部开新闻发布会，届时会有德国政客（包括在巴伐利亚州执政的SPD的一名州议员）和众多媒体参加 （http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En … =-791930673&mid=1096144499）。我马上和慕尼黑中国学生会主席（下面简称Q，我们在去年的抗议达赖事件中认识 的）紧急商量对策。我觉得这是一个很好的机会：首先，我们可以摸摸敌人的情况；其次，借机向媒体宣传事实和我们的观点；第三，显示一下我们的存在，让敌人 不敢太放肆。我和Q简单商讨了一下在会场的对策，就是冷静观察，随机应变，绝不做过激言论。随后我在DSZH和【无面人沃尔夫】联络上（他会德语是个大优 势，我和Q都不会德语）。然后Q又找了两个人，其中一个在本地生活多年，娶了德国老婆，德语很好。

我们一共五个人，约好今早10:30在 主火车站门口集合，大家彼此认识了一下，这就是战友了。10：50走到世维会总部的门口，我还是第一次来这里。他们的网站上只有电话，没有地址，这次开新 闻发布会，终于公开地址了。对面站着有两个警察（后来才发现附近还埋伏了十多个警察，防备现场发生冲突）。进门的时候我们中有人和当地一家维吾尔人餐馆的 老板认识，还打了招呼，看起来没有明显的恶意。上楼，来到邪恶老巢世维会的总部，极其寒酸，就一层的地方，一排四间办公室，最里面是个会议室，也就是今天 的会场，非常小，比一个办公室大不了多少。看来是没钱租更大的地方。里面已经有几家媒体摆了设备，不一会又来了些人，大多是记者，一个小小的屋子才进来十 几个人就满了，晚来的只好挤在门口。我看了一下，来的平面媒体有南德意志报（慕尼黑最大的本地报纸）、慕尼黑另一家本地报纸、一家土耳其新闻机构，通讯社 有路透社和德国之声，电视台有2DF和巴伐利亚州电视台、慕尼黑市电视台。此外还有一个亚洲人面孔的记者，看不出来是哪来的，不排除是RFA的人。

An interesting view from a reader’s comment on WSJ

I accidental bumped intot this article -  Ethnic Tensions Escalate in China’s Xinjiang Region, while this article is hopelessly biased, mis-informed, just like most any other western media do, I found one of its reader’s comments to be much more interesting and valuable.

The author is named as Elvis Esparza, here is he/she had to say

DW,

You are woefully misinformed about China like some of the other Westerners whom have posted on this article. Imperialism? Cultural Genocide? Racism? Colonialism?

For starters the area of Xinjiang (with Mongolia) has ALWAYS posed a threat to Chinese civilization due to nomadic barbarians (Xiongnu, Ruan, Turks, Mongols, & Tatars). Traditionally the Chinese were forced to pacify those regions via either outright conquest (Han &Tang dynasties) or punitive expeditions (Han, Sui, & Ming dynasties) to force them into vassal status. Today’s PRC has decided on outright rule both due to its natural resources and so that it serves as a buffer region. Completely and totally understandable and in realpolitic terms justifiable. Since one of the ways to secure a territory is to settle your own people there (see the Romans, Incas, the United States, and of course Imperial China) the Chinese government is doing the same thing encouraging Han Chinese to migrate to Xinjiang (as well as Tibet – also for purposes of natural resources and to serve as a buffer region).

If you look throughout history the Han Chinese NEVER committed genocide or massacred minorities due to their religious beliefs. In the history of the 2000+ year Chinese empire, ONLY when a foreign dynasty (the Manchu Qing) ruled where their massacres of religious minorities performed by the government.
Native Han Chinese dynasties (Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, Ming) did NOT massacre religious minorities. In fact Daoists, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, & Muslims all lived in the empire and NONE were relegated to 2nd class citizens. In fact the ONLY two times a group of people were relegated to 2nd class citizen status (or worse) was during the rule of two foreign dynasties (the Mongol Yuan and the Manchu Qing) both of whom put the Han Chinese into lesser status via laws and regulations (something none of the other dynasties did to the Han Chinese who were the majority or the peoples the Han Chinese dynasties conquered). Whenever a sect was persecuted it was NOT the worshippers but the religious elite (example Buddhist monasteries during the 9th century AD) and then it was due to them acquiring power and therefore possing a threat to the ruler. Last but not least the Han Chinese NEVER forced those who did not practice Daoism and/or Buddhism to convert to such faiths.