Chinese paramilitary police patrol in the Uighur district of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region on July 11. The recent uprising in the city, capital of China's Xinjiang region, has put the remote area on the world stage with many local people welcoming the attention but, warn experts, the hopes of the Uighurs could prove unfounded with the unrest likely to fortify China's resolve. (AFP/File/Peter Parks)China actions 'appropriate'
Monday, 13 July 2009
Sam Rith And Christopher Shay
The Phnom Penh Post
Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses support for China's broad crackdown in Xinjiang province, calling it an 'internal' decision that will 'restore social order'.
THE Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement Saturday supporting China's actions in the restive Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where, according to the Chinese government, unrest between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese has left 184 dead.
"The government of China is taking appropriate measures to address the problem and restore social order," the statement said in reference to China's crackdown in Xinjiang.
In the wake of the riots in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, Chinese state media have reported that many mosques in Urumqi were closed Friday, and that public assembly without police approval has been banned.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called these government actions China's "exclusive internal affair".
Rebiya Kadeer, the president of the World Uighur Congress, wrote in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday that deaths in Xinjiang are likely much higher than reported by Chinese state media, saying her sources claim 400 Uighurs have been killed in Urumqi.
Uighurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim minority in Xinjiang, have long complained about discrimination and the suppression of their language and culture.
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong told the Post that the ministry issued the statement "to show Cambodia's stance that China is a friendly country".
Relations between China and Cambodia, however, have not always been so friendly. In a 1988 essay, Prime Minister Hun Sen called China "the root of everything that was evil in Cambodia", referring to China's support of the Khmer Rouge.
But after Hun Sen ousted Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a 1997 coup, China was the first country to recognise Hun Sen's rule, delivering to Cambodia military cargo valued at up to US$2.8 million, according to Julio Jeldres, Norodom Sihanouk's official biographer.
Since 2006, China has pledged $880 million in loans and grants to Cambodia. China also built and financed the more than $30 million Council of Ministers building.
The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh said Sunday that it welcomed Cambodia's statement of support but declined to comment further.
THE Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement Saturday supporting China's actions in the restive Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, where, according to the Chinese government, unrest between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese has left 184 dead.
"The government of China is taking appropriate measures to address the problem and restore social order," the statement said in reference to China's crackdown in Xinjiang.
In the wake of the riots in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, Chinese state media have reported that many mosques in Urumqi were closed Friday, and that public assembly without police approval has been banned.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called these government actions China's "exclusive internal affair".
Rebiya Kadeer, the president of the World Uighur Congress, wrote in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday that deaths in Xinjiang are likely much higher than reported by Chinese state media, saying her sources claim 400 Uighurs have been killed in Urumqi.
Uighurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim minority in Xinjiang, have long complained about discrimination and the suppression of their language and culture.
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong told the Post that the ministry issued the statement "to show Cambodia's stance that China is a friendly country".
Relations between China and Cambodia, however, have not always been so friendly. In a 1988 essay, Prime Minister Hun Sen called China "the root of everything that was evil in Cambodia", referring to China's support of the Khmer Rouge.
But after Hun Sen ousted Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a 1997 coup, China was the first country to recognise Hun Sen's rule, delivering to Cambodia military cargo valued at up to US$2.8 million, according to Julio Jeldres, Norodom Sihanouk's official biographer.
Since 2006, China has pledged $880 million in loans and grants to Cambodia. China also built and financed the more than $30 million Council of Ministers building.
The Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh said Sunday that it welcomed Cambodia's statement of support but declined to comment further.
9 comments:
yes, it is appropriate, unlike kent state students were shot dead during the protest by students of the invasion of cambodia during the vietnam war in the early 1970s and more. learn your history!
yep, China wants to control the whole Asia and the world.
Take Note:
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Indonesia 7,776,000
Thailand 7,053,240
Malaysia 6,324,000
United States 3,858,000
Canada 1,318,000
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Peru 1,300,000
Philippines 1,170,000
Burma 1,121,000
Australia 669,896
Japan 606,889
Russia 500,000
United Kingdom 400,000
England 374,200
Scotland 16,310
Wales 6,267
Northern Ireland 4,145
Cambodia 355,000
France 233,000
India 196,000
Laos 190,000
Brazil 156,000
New Zealand 147,570
Italy 144,885
South Korea 137,790
Panama 135,000
Spain 134,022
Cuba 114,242
Netherlands 110,000
Germany 109,000
South Africa 108,000
Angola 100,000
Can an unarm citizens match with these military polices? Life in China is nothing, but a joke.
Have you been in xinjiang ? don't balk if you don't know the situation. There are turks in China.
what are they doing in China ? Do you think the government should let them kill all the chineses in China?
even chinese police kill all those protesters it still be appropriate for the government of cambodia becuase hun sen's government adopted that rule from china . communist rule .
5:24 AM .
what number are you showing up there ? does anyone know what it is ?
One dictator supporting another ,otherwise he gets bread crumbs instead of dollars.
As for Turks in china, it was china that annexed the region like Tibet. So you chinese asshole , go back to your han land!
They are the same everywhere the chinese: dirty, foulmouthed and uneducated.
it is not surprised to hear this news. It is a natural law that a person should bite the fingers that feed you.
How do you say that the chineses are uneducated if they are the ones that enslave you sons of the bitch.
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