China tightens Web screws after Xinjiang riot | Reuters
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China clamped down on the Internet in the capital of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang on Monday, in the hope of stemming the flow of information about ethnic unrest which left 140 people dead.
The government has blamed Sunday’s riots in Urumqi — the deadliest unrest since the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations — on exiled Muslim separatists.
Some residents in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s regional capital, said they had been told there would be no Internet access for 48 hours.
via reuters.com
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Claude LaFrenière
K'iou Hsi 久喜
whenever there is large-scale unrest in china, i can see the shadow of CIA. i’m just a college teacher, and i know that the southern part of Xinjiang, including the now Urumqi, was in China’s map when QinShiHuang (the first emperor of China) united China more than 2200 years ago! and that the whole territory of Xinjiang has belonged to china for more than 800 years.
sx
2009/07/7 à 01:05
Hi SX
Everybodies agree that Xingjiang belongs to China. There’s no discussions about this…
But let me tell you Sir that social troubles in China or any other part of the world do not
requiered any other factors than the economical, cultural and political problems…
and the “shadow of the CIA” is not an explanation for them…
May I suggest instead that the combination of a fast modernization and an authoritarian State is the main sources of the troubles like the one in Urumqi? When poeple have no way to express their opinion this opinion is often expressed with violence… All the history of the world shows this.
May I suggest you to read this: 零八宪章 – La Charte 08 par Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波 … in French and Chinese.
http://climenole.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/la-charte-08-%E9%9B%B6%E5%85%AB%E5%AE%AA%E7%AB%A0/
Have a nice day.
Claude LaFrenière
2009/07/7 à 05:33