CHINA IS REVERTING TO AN OLD TACTIC, to show a force of power and its determination to keep moslems from protesting, rioting and killing non-moslems. Human Rights groups are angry and are calling for a change in the way China is dealing with the moslems, however, China has long showed the world, and its citizens that the government is in control and will use whatever means it feels is necessary. In a powerful display of force, China sentenced 55 people for terrorism, separatism and murder in front of 7,000 people at a sport stadium in the restive northwestern Xinjiang region. The defendants seemed to be from the region’s Muslim Uighur community and three of them were sentenced to death at the stadium in Yili, in northern Xinjiang, not far from the Kazakhstan border. The sentencing has angered human rights groups and comes after 43 people were killed last week in an attack on a vegetable market in the provincial capital, Urumqi. The defendants had already been convicted by a court but were brought into the stadium on the back of flat-bed lorries, in a measure designed to humiliate them and demonstrate state power. irishtimes/news/world/asia-pacific/china-carries-out-mass-sentencing-in-sport-stadium-1.1814114
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:44:06 +0000
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