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China Outsourcing Smog to West Region Stirs Protest
March 7, 2014
White smoke bellows from Shenhua Group Corp.'s power plant across the road from Li Zhihua's home outside of Hami, Xinjiang province. The famous Hami melon grown near the plant are no longer as sweet as they once were because of the pollution from the plant, Li said.

China’s leaders want to lift the gray blanket of deadly smog that often chokes Beijing’s residents by shifting power plants to the less populated western part of the country inhabited by minorities.

China Remodels an Ancient Silk Road City, and an Ethnic Rift Widens
March 6, 2014
A woman walks past demolished houses. Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times

Visitors walking through the mud-brick rubble and yawning craters where close-packed houses and bazaars once stood could be forgiven for thinking that the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar had been irrevocably lost to the wrecking ball.

China’s Kunming attack: When the cracks are exposed
March 6, 2014
A girl looks up at patrolling paramilitary policemen with guns after a knife attack along a street near Kunming railway station, Yunnan province, March 2, 2014. China blamed militants from the restive far western region of Xinjiang on Sunday for an attack at a train station on the other side of the country by knife-wielding "terrorists" in which at least 33 died, including four of the assailants, who were shot dead. REUTERS/Wong Campion

After the brutal knife massacre in a Chinese train station on Saturday, Chinese authorities have promised to go after the “terrorists” with everything they’ve got.

Editorial: China’s rebellious province
March 6, 2014

The carnage allegedly committed by terrorists of the Uighur minority at Kunming Railway Station in southwest China on Saturday night was a humiliating slap in the face of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. At least 29 people were killed and 143 wounded in the act of terror, which represents a serious challenge to their leadership.

What I'm reading: Time to reconsider NATO expansion?
March 6, 2014

“The stark fact is that even if Russian military intervention stops with the establishment of a pro-Russian vassal state in Crimea, Russia will have enormous leverage over the new government in Ukraine,” writes Edward Walker in the Los Angeles Times.

Communists supported Xinjiang independence 70 years ago
March 6, 2014
Female officers of East Turkistan Republic

It may come as a surprise that while Beijing has labeled Sunday's knife attack in the city of Kunming as a "terrorist attack" by Xinjiang separatists, the Communist Party of China once put its support behind an independent state in China's northwest reaches.

Backlash Feared for China's Uyghurs After Kunming Killings
March 5, 2014
Paramilitary police on patrol in front of the Kunming train station, March 3, 2014.

Police are warning hotels in some areas not to admit 'guests from Xinjiang.'

‘Policies in Xinjiang brutal, cause trauma among Uyghurs’
March 5, 2014
Uighur women grieve for male relatives who they say were detained by Chinese authorities after July 5, 2009 protest in Urumqi.

Sutirtho Patranobis
Beijing, March 04, 2014

UAA & UHRP Reports

UHRP issues a Chinese-language version of its report, Rumors, Suspicion and Hysteria: Urumchi’s Han Residents Target Uyghurs in September 2009 Pinprick Attack Scare
Feb 24, 2014
Rumors, Suspicion, Hysteria Chinese cover

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) issues a Chinese-language version of its report Rumors, Suspicion and Hysteria: Urumchi’s Han Residents Target Uyghurs in September 2009 Pinprick Attack Scare.

To Strike The Strongest Blow: Questions Remain Over Crackdown On 2009 Unrest In Urumchi
Jul 2, 2013

A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), To Strike The Strongest Blow: Questions Remain Over Crackdown On 2009 Unrest In Urumchi, details widespread human rights violations committed by the People’s Republic of China in the wake of unrest in Urumchi on July 5, 2009.

Sacred Right Defiled: China’s Iron-Fisted Repression of Uyghur Religious Freedom
Apr 30, 2013

A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) details the repression of religious freedom among Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).