BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it was investigating an apparent asylum request lodged with the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees by a group of Uighurs in Cambodia.
Two of the 22 Uighurs who sought asylum through the UNHCR offices in Phnom Penh say they witnessed security forces killing and beating Uighur demonstrators in the far western Chinese city of Urumqi on July 5, the Uighur American Association said.
On that day, demonstrations in Urumqi by Uighurs protesting against fatal attacks on Uighur workers in South China turned into a violent rampage in which 197 people died, mostly Han Chinese. Han Chinese crowds launched revenge attacks against Uighur neighbourhoods two days later.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said officials were investigating reports of the asylum claims.
"Related departments are at present looking into the situation," she told a regular news briefing in Beijing.
"We have a good cooperative relationship with Cambodia on every level," Jiang added. "We hope the international community can enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism."
China often accuses militants of formenting ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, though Beijing has provided no evidence so far that the 22 Uighurs in Cambodia are connected with such groups.
The UNHCR in Phnom Penh declined comment.
But a foreign human rights activist, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters the group would submit asylum applications to both the Cambodian government and the UNHCR.
Uighurs are a Muslim, Turkic speaking ethnic group native to Xinjiang, many of whom chafe under Chinese rule.
Refugees who flee China face a dangerous crossing over the often mountainous and bleak border, and risk repatriation while still in neighbouring countries.
In October, an ethnic Mongolian school principal, Batzangaa, was abruptly brought back to China by Chinese police while he and his family were appealing the UNHCR's initial rejection of their refugee application in Ulan Bator. He is still in detention.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Ek Madra in Phnom Penh; Editing by Ron Popeski)
Two of the 22 Uighurs who sought asylum through the UNHCR offices in Phnom Penh say they witnessed security forces killing and beating Uighur demonstrators in the far western Chinese city of Urumqi on July 5, the Uighur American Association said.
On that day, demonstrations in Urumqi by Uighurs protesting against fatal attacks on Uighur workers in South China turned into a violent rampage in which 197 people died, mostly Han Chinese. Han Chinese crowds launched revenge attacks against Uighur neighbourhoods two days later.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said officials were investigating reports of the asylum claims.
"Related departments are at present looking into the situation," she told a regular news briefing in Beijing.
"We have a good cooperative relationship with Cambodia on every level," Jiang added. "We hope the international community can enhance cooperation in the fight against terrorism."
China often accuses militants of formenting ethnic unrest in Xinjiang, though Beijing has provided no evidence so far that the 22 Uighurs in Cambodia are connected with such groups.
The UNHCR in Phnom Penh declined comment.
But a foreign human rights activist, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters the group would submit asylum applications to both the Cambodian government and the UNHCR.
Uighurs are a Muslim, Turkic speaking ethnic group native to Xinjiang, many of whom chafe under Chinese rule.
Refugees who flee China face a dangerous crossing over the often mountainous and bleak border, and risk repatriation while still in neighbouring countries.
In October, an ethnic Mongolian school principal, Batzangaa, was abruptly brought back to China by Chinese police while he and his family were appealing the UNHCR's initial rejection of their refugee application in Ulan Bator. He is still in detention.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Ek Madra in Phnom Penh; Editing by Ron Popeski)
13 comments:
Oh man Oh man. I think these people escaped to the wrong place. They should know that this country has a merciless group of people who has no self-conscience not even to their own people are in control today. Another word there is no safety for you guys at all in Cambodia. For sure they will hand you all back the Chink authorities. Good luck people.
Deport all of them back to CHINA.
4:24 AM
Yeah! If you don't, the commie Chinese will kick Ah Hun's ass and his master.
Yeah ! if you don't , more killers and criminals will come seeking refuge.
China via USA, round 1
khmer thaa domrei jul knear nhob sromach sangha like during killing field till today.
Those who provoke wars, support wars and trades wars in anyway must be the main responsibles for the massacres of innocent people, not only little hands executors or killing tools
Oh LaLa,
A qui appartien le Soleil?
To whom belongs the Sun?
After 2 456 254 innocent people khmer killed,we need peace,Independence,and Justice.Yester day Ah Siam killed khmer,at Svay Rieng people cried of their land,Sihanouk sleep and wait for good luck.
"Life is suffering"Buddha
Please UNHCR in Phnom Penh think of Khmer krom that Siam sent back last week.
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miss chak angre
Hi folks,
Hun Sen cannot decide who can stay or can go in Cambodia, it is Hanoi.
As you all knew Nguyen Tan Dung is Vietnamese President but he is Chinese of HAN origin, the Racist communist killer.
The US can help but since Obama is also Communist, and he sides with China ignoring Dala Lama, then tough luck. And with all the trillion of dollars the US owed China, another nightmare.
Our world is ruled by the great mafia killers. Small leaders like in ASEAN nations or elsehwere cannot survive if they don't go along with China and the US.
The example of colonization, oppression, ethnic, economic, social, religious discrimination and political persecution of Uighurs and Tibetans by the Chinese of the Han ethnic group should seriously to make reflect the Cambodian Khmer ethnicity to quickly find intelligent political solutions in front of more and more heavy weights of the Chinese’s and Chinese-Cambodian community and economic grip of China on Kampuchea.
There is no discrimination in Cambodia at the exception of some
tmils (pouk a khmao leftover by the tamils ,came to Cambodia in 10th century)who proclaimed themself as khmers and want to eliminate others from cambodian society.
9;35am.
Pourk Ah Khmao traders from India who created Khmer Empire not ah Khmao from Africa.
Like pourk ah Macedonians from Greece who ruled Egypt, Syria and some Arab nations.
56 nations became One China. The racist HAN killers are migrating into ASEAN nations, because tehy want to take all countries in ASIA.
Then Vietnamese from South China copied the same strategy of China, and now Vietnamese continue their expansionism in Cambodia to Thailand through their sleeping army and population.
If the Han Killers take ASEAN nations, India will show up and fight against China, because India's great civilization was mostly in Khmer Empire.
WAR, WAR and WAR. The fucking humans will fight and fight non stop. Recently they threatned each others at Noth Pole because of oil, every powerful nations wants that oil.
They will go to Mars and fucking fight on Mars, you will see if we all can last until 2030's.
This to my Khmer brother, sisters in Kampuchea Krom.
I just finished reading this Bulletin wrote by Paul Boudet in 1942 about Kampuchea Krom. The history traced back from the year 1679 AD. According to the history wrote by Paul Boudet, it seemd that Chinese immigrants and Yuon were fighting for KKK, but then Yuon kept sending Yuon from North to South, so Chinese lost.
May be million Khmer Krom mixed with Chinese and we thought they mixed with Yuon. It seems that Yuon took KKK for a long times ago since 1600's. But when French came the named of Khmer villages were kept the same as in an ancient times. After French defeated in 1946 French signed and gave KKK to Yuon in 1949 agreed by the US, because the US wanted to use KKK as its military base.
The Title is:
III. La conquête de la Cochinchine par les Nguyen et le role des emigres chinois Bulletin de l'Ecole Française Extrême-Orient, Annee 1942, Volume 42, Numero 1
p. 115 - 132
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Readers don't fuss with me, I only read from the bulleting of Paul Boudet and translated a little bit from French to English to share with you.
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