Uighurs deported before Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's arrival Sunday for state visit to Cambodia
19 December 2009
VOA News
Cambodia has deported 20 Muslim Uighurs who fled China's northwest region after ethnic unrest earlier this year in Xinjiang province.
An Interior Ministry spokesman told reporters the Uighurs were placed aboard a Chinese aircraft that departed Cambodia Saturday.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Phnom Penh said earlier that the would-be refugees were being expelled because they entered Cambodia illegally.
As expected, the Uighurs were deported before Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's arrival Sunday for a state visit to Cambodia.
The Uighurs arrived in Cambodia last month. Human-rights groups say they face possible torture and execution by Chinese authorities, who have already condemned to death at least 17 Uighurs as a result of July's deadly riots.
The disorders in Xinjiang, which pitted ethnic Uighurs against China's majority Han Chinese, killed nearly 200 people.
Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim minority concentrated in western China. In complaints that echo those of many Tibetans, they say they are victims of discrimination and cultural and economic domination by the Han Chinese majority.
Christian missionaries helped 23 Uighurs reach Cambodia last month. The exiles had applied for refugee status at the Phnom Penh office of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR).
Earlier this week, China denounced the Uighurs as suspected criminals who should not be allowed to use U.N. protection to escape punishment.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.
19 December 2009
VOA News
Cambodia has deported 20 Muslim Uighurs who fled China's northwest region after ethnic unrest earlier this year in Xinjiang province.
An Interior Ministry spokesman told reporters the Uighurs were placed aboard a Chinese aircraft that departed Cambodia Saturday.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Phnom Penh said earlier that the would-be refugees were being expelled because they entered Cambodia illegally.
As expected, the Uighurs were deported before Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's arrival Sunday for a state visit to Cambodia.
The Uighurs arrived in Cambodia last month. Human-rights groups say they face possible torture and execution by Chinese authorities, who have already condemned to death at least 17 Uighurs as a result of July's deadly riots.
The disorders in Xinjiang, which pitted ethnic Uighurs against China's majority Han Chinese, killed nearly 200 people.
Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim minority concentrated in western China. In complaints that echo those of many Tibetans, they say they are victims of discrimination and cultural and economic domination by the Han Chinese majority.
Christian missionaries helped 23 Uighurs reach Cambodia last month. The exiles had applied for refugee status at the Phnom Penh office of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR).
Earlier this week, China denounced the Uighurs as suspected criminals who should not be allowed to use U.N. protection to escape punishment.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.
5 comments:
A victim of cultural discrimination have no right in any country law of the land to kill . Tibetan or Uighur could not justify their action , killing innocent people on the street , by the cultural discrimination they are subjected to. When they kill, they become criminal killer who should be punished by the law. Who ever want to help them escape the law should be punished too. The americans apply the same justice to the criminals who kill and their helpers,like in Seattle recently.
the world turn blind eye on hun sen regime.
Hun Sen government is clearly selling Uyghurs freedom seekers to China for money in the form of aid. I urge all countries in the world to cut tie with Phnom Penh Hun sen-government NOW because this government don't respect human right, don't respect human lives, don't repect international laws. They don't care any lives lost, they are hungry for more MONEY from China.
Remember Chinese government were best friends of our former King Norodom Sihanouk, we will do our best to preserve our interest. Without that approach our master Vietnam will do whatever, they want in Cambodia.
Let Chinese Government killed more Muslim peoples in China event kill one millions peoples still have more than one thousand millions peopls to go, and Dear all readers, this is the Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and government do the right thing, because Uyghurs peoples are Chinese must be return them back to China, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen not hungry money, he do by the law and now he also know today China he is make good friend with China better than make enemy with,and this is the part of Asia, I hoping that the European not worrying to much, about UN American behind the UN, if let UN staffs to supporting the Muslim peoples in China, one days American Government will be control most Countries, China Government must be still using the former President Mao Tse Tong Policy the best Policy, if Mao Tse Tong Policy not strong may cannot removed or destroyed England and Japanese armies out from China, so I request UN not to worrying too much about the Chinese peoples excaped from China, the Chinese Government can look after them or their own peoples. from the Chinese / Cambodian Victim from the year 1975 to the year 1979 during Khmer Rough / Pol Pot regime under A cruel Vampire Yuonese / Vietnamese hidden faces behind the killing field in Melbourne Australia.
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