Beijing government to provincial, ethnic groups: Support the Olympic Games, or else (?)
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In a dispatch that has been picked up by news outlets in Asia and Europe, Reuters has reported that, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a vast territory in northwestern China, “Chinese authorities…have demolished a [Muslim] mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of…August’s Beijing Olympics,” the international sports event that is scheduled to begin on August 8. The Uyghurs are a mostly Muslim, ethnic-Turkic people whose region has also been called, with separatist sentiments in mind, “East Turkistan” or “Uyghurstan.” That kind of talk is not welcome by the central government in Beijing, which took control of the region in the 1950s after the success of Mao Zedong’s communist revolution. (Reuters in the Times of India)
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