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» Underground Pastor Held - 14-June-2010
Chinese authorities prevent a church leader from meeting with a congregation facing forced eviction. AFP Unregistered churches, like this one in Linfen prefecture shown in a picture taken Dec. 9, 2009, operate in constant fear of raids by authorities. HONG KONG—An underground Christian pastor has been detained in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, the church leader said from an interview in custody. Pastor Zhang Mingxuan, president of the Association of Chinese Family Churches, was detained with his wife Sunday as the couple traveled by car to Yancheng city in the southeastern province of Jiangsu. Police stopped the pastor and his wife on the road, taking them to a hotel in the Henan provincial capital Zhengzhou, where Zhang is based. Several police officers then questioned Zhang about his trip to Beijing earlier in June and about the purpose of his visit to Yancheng. “I traveled to Beijing recently to meet a Christian who had just come back from the United States. Police questione

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» PLA Takes Tougher Line - 14-June-2010
China's military appears to be pursuing its own course on U.S. contacts, analysts say. AFP U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks to reporters en route to Singapore, June 3, 2010. BOSTON—China's refusal to restore high-level military contacts with Washington has raised questions about civilian control of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), experts say.In a possible sign of internal divisions, the PLA declined to extend an expected invitation to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates for a visit following an Asian security conference in Singapore, Pentagon officials said on June 2.China suspended high-level military contacts in January to show displeasure over a $6.4-billion U.S. arms sale to Taiwan. But U.S. officials believed that visits would resume after talks between Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao, as well as Strategic and Economic Dialogue meetings last month."I'm disappointed that the [PLA] leadership has not seen the same potential benefits from this kind of military-to-

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» Uyghur Students Sent Home - 14-June-2010
Urumqi residents say 'volunteers' are patrolling the city ahead of a grim anniversary. RFA Cantonese/Hailan Armed police move into Urumqi, July 8, 2009. HONG KONG—Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to the Uyghur ethnic group, are sending Uyghur students from outlying areas back from the regional capital before the anniversary of deadly ethnic clashes. "That's correct," said an official who answered the phone at the Urumqi municipal education department, when asked if the government was currently arranging transport for students to return to their hometowns. "It's being organized by the [Xinjiang Uyghur] Autonomous Region education department," the official said. "They would know about it." Overseas Uyghur groups cited an expanded police presence in Uyghur neighborhoods in Urumqi since early June, ahead of the anniversary of deadly ethnic violence in the regional capital. Those clashes were sparked by a Uyghur demonstration July 5 to call for an in

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» China To Register All Children - 14-June-2010
Children born 'off the books' will be counted in the country's next census. AFP Children play at a special school for children of migrant workers in Fujian province, Sept. 22, 2009. HONG KONG—Authorities in the Chinese capital have said that children born outside strict family planning quotas or out of wedlock will have an amnesty on household registrations ahead of a nationwide census in November.The census, the sixth nationwide population count under the ruling Communist Party, will run from November 2010 to June 2012, official media reported."People who violated family planning policies can apply for household registration by taking the opportunities of the census," the official English-language China Daily newspaper quoted Gu Yanzhou, deputy director of the Beijing Statistic Bureau, as saying.He said census officials would not pass on such information to family planning departments to provide a basis for fines, which are also commonly levied on mothers giving birth outside the rule

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» Uyghur Students Sent Home - 14-June-2010
RFA 2010-06-14 HONG KONG—Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to the Uyghur ethnic group, are sending Uyghur students from outlying areas back from the regional capital before the anniversary of deadly ethnic clashes. "That's correct," said an official who answered the phone at the Urumqi municipal education department, when asked if the government was currently arranging transport for students to return to their hometowns. "It's being organized by the [Xinjiang Uyghur] Autonomous Region education department," the official said. "They would know about it." Overseas Uyghur groups cited an expanded police presence in Uyghur neighborhoods in Urumqi since early June, ahead of the anniversary of deadly ethnic violence in the regional capital. Those clashes were sparked by a Uyghur demonstration July 5 to call for an investigation into Uyghur deaths in southern China. Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, said the auth

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» One year later, China's crackdown after Uighur riots haunts a homeland... - 14-June-2010
By Lauren Keane Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, June 15, 2010; A01 Bullet holes are pictured in the glass window of a Bank of China office located near the Dong Kuruk Bridge mosque in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 11, 2009. REUTERS/David Gray URUMQI, CHINA - A hulking shell of a department store towers over this city's Uighur quarter, a reminder of what can be lost here by speaking up. For years, it was the flagship of the business empire of Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled leader and matriarch of the Uighur people. If Chinese government accounts are accurate, she helped instigate fierce ethnic riots that killed hundreds and injured thousands here last July - an accusation she vehemently denies. Still a prominent landmark even in its ruin, the Rebiya Kadeer Trade Center was partially confiscated by the government in 2006 when Kadeer's son was charged with tax evasion, although tenants were allowed to stay. After the riots, it was shuttered and slated f

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» OIC head to visit Muslim Uighur regions in China - 14-June-2010
World Bulletin Monday, 14 June 2010 14:57 Head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, will travel to China on a one-week visit "upon an invitation from the Chinese government." Ihsanoglu will have talks in China and visit regions where Uighurs live, according to a statement by OIC Press Center. The press center said the visit would begin on June 16 and the first stop would be Beijing. Ihsanoglu will later visit Urumchi and Kashgar regions. It is stated that the visit coincided prior to the anniversary of Urumchi protests that occurred on July 5, 2009. Over 150 people were killed and approximately 1,000 others were injured in the riots which followed demonstrations protesting a fight between Uighur and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory late June 2009. Two Uighur workers had been killed in the strife. Urumchi is in the Uighur Autonomous Region that has a population of over 21 million. Nearly 11 million Uighurs, Mongols and Huis live in the region.

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» Uighur refugees plead to leave Pacific island - 14-June-2010
Article Link By Bernadette Carreon AFP 2010-06-14 KOROR — A group of former Guantanamo detainees from a Chinese Muslim ethnic minority have pleaded for a permanent home seven months after being given temporary refuge in the Pacific nation of Palau. "We are asking President Johnson Toribiong to help us leave Palau. Help us, we need to go out, we hope he will help us," said Adel Noori, one of the six Uighur men from China's remote northwestern region of Xinjiang. They were transferred to Koror, the capital of the tropical island group, from the US prison in November but there is no Uighur community in Palau and the men - some of whom have married - are keen to move to Australia. They spent more than seven years in detention after a group of 22 Uighurs were captured in Afghanistan in the US invasion of 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. Although cleared of any wrongdoing in 2005, the Uighurs were not returned to China because of fears

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Uyghur News / Uyghur Human Rights Project

» Uyghur Students Sent Home - 14-June-2010
RFA2010-06-14 HONG KONG—Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, home to the Uyghur ethnic group, are sending Uyghur students from outlying areas back from the regional capital before the anniversary of deadly ethnic clashes. "That's correct," said an official who answered the phone at the Urumqi municipal education department, when asked if the government was currently arranging transport for students to return to their hometowns. "It's being organized by the [Xinjiang Uyghur] Autonomous Region education department," the official said. "They would know about it." Overseas Uyghur groups cited an expanded police presence in Uyghur neighborhoods in Urumqi since early June, ahead of the anniversary of deadly ethnic violence in the regional capital. Those clashes were sparked by a Uyghur demonstration July 5 to call for an investigation into Uyghur deaths in southern China. Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, said the autho

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» Uighur refugees plead to leave Pacific island - 14-June-2010
Article LinkBy Bernadette CarreonAFP2010-06-14 KOROR — A group of former Guantanamo detainees from a Chinese Muslim ethnic minority have pleaded for a permanent home seven months after being given temporary refuge in the Pacific nation of Palau. "We are asking President Johnson Toribiong to help us leave Palau. Help us, we need to go out, we hope he will help us," said Adel Noori, one of the six Uighur men from China's remote northwestern region of Xinjiang. They were transferred to Koror, the capital of the tropical island group, from the US prison in November but there is no Uighur community in Palau and the men - some of whom have married - are keen to move to Australia. They spent more than seven years in detention after a group of 22 Uighurs were captured in Afghanistan in the US invasion of 2001 following the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. Although cleared of any wrongdoing in 2005, the Uighurs were not returned to China because of fears th

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» OIC head to visit Muslim Uighur regions in China - 14-June-2010
World BulletinMonday, 14 June 2010 14:57Head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, will travel to China on a one-week visit "upon an invitation from the Chinese government." Ihsanoglu will have talks in China and visit regions where Uighurs live, according to a statement by OIC Press Center. The press center said the visit would begin on June 16 and the first stop would be Beijing. Ihsanoglu will later visit Urumchi and Kashgar regions. It is stated that the visit coincided prior to the anniversary of Urumchi protests that occurred on July 5, 2009. Over 150 people were killed and approximately 1,000 others were injured in the riots which followed demonstrations protesting a fight between Uighur and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory late June 2009. Two Uighur workers had been killed in the strife. Urumchi is in the Uighur Autonomous Region that has a population of over 21 million. Nearly 11 million Uighurs, Mongols and Huis live in the region. Ch

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Uyghur News / World Tibet News

» Tibetans Protest Over Land - 14-June-2010
Tibetans Protest Over Land June 14, 2010 2010-06-03 Residents of a quake-stricken county are angrily rejecting plans to move them from their land. Local resident An undated photo submitted by a local resident shows buildings in Gyegu town, Yushu county undergoing demolition following the April 14 earthquake. HONG KONG—Scores of Tibetan residents of an earthquake-damaged western Chinese county are protesting local government plans to take possession of choice properties to reconstruct ravaged homes, schools, offices, and other sites, Tibetan sources say. Some properties claimed by the authorities suffered no damage in the April earthquake, which left nearly 3,000 people dead, according to Tibetans in Yushu county, Qinghai province, as well as Tibetans in exile who said they have been in touch with relatives there. “The local government has forced local residents out of their houses—they said they had to clean the area to build office buildings, schools, and parks, and

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» Translations Reveal Tibetan Woman Mystic - 14-June-2010
Translations Reveal Tibetan Woman Mystic June 14, 2010 2010-06-04 How a fiercely independent Tibetan girl born more than a century ago became a leading Buddhist mystic—and lives on today. Photo: Antonio Terrone Statue of Sera Khandro housed in Kathmandu, Nepal. WASHINGTON—A unique collection of writings by a female Tibetan mystic, little known even among Tibetan Buddhists, is providing a rare glimpse of religious life in Tibet 100 years ago and is stirring new interest among scholars seven decades after her death. The “treasure revealer” Sera Khandro (1892-1940) wrote her autobiography not in classical Tibetan but in the colloquial Tibetan dialect of Golok, in an area that now straddles the border between China's Sichuan and Qinghai provinces. She’s the subject of a forthcoming book by Sarah Jacoby, an assistant professor of religion at Chicago's Northwestern University. “Because Sera Khandro didn’t have a monastic education—she never st

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» Quake Critic Arrested - 14-June-2010
Quake Critic Arrested June 14, 2010 2010-06-04 A Tibetan who criticized China’s quake relief now faces formal charges. RFA Shogdung, in an undated photo. HONG KONG—Authorities in the western Chinese province of Qinghai have now formally arrested a Tibetan writer who signed an open letter critical of the government’s quake relief efforts in the region. This step almost always precedes a conviction in China. “As we were directed by the local authorities, my mother and I went to police station to receive the formal arrest letter for my father on May 28, 2010, around 6 p.m.,” Yeshi Tsomo, daughter of the Tibetan writer Tagyal, said in an interview. “The contents of the letter were very similar to what the Chinese officials had said earlier. My father was accused of instigating to split the motherland. This and the letter we were given earlier, when he was first detained, are almost the same except for the mention that his case had been transferred for p

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» Remembering Tiananmen Square - 14-June-2010
Remembering Tiananmen Square June 14, 2010 2010-06-04 Three former student leaders share reflection on China's 1989 pro-democracy movement. RFA Chai Ling (R) and Xiong Yan (L) share their memories in a discussion hosted by RFA's Mandarin service. Chai Ling was one of the best-known student leaders on Tiananmen Square, and has been nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize. Chai, who joined the student movement relatively late, went on to lead organized pro-democracy protests, including hunger strikes, alongside Wang Dan and Wu'er Kaixi. She led the last group of students to leave the Square in the early hours of June 4. She later fled China with the help of overseas organizations. "How I got involved with the student movement is very simple. Basically I went on April 17 to help the students on Tiananmen Square by taking them water and bread. Then the police were beating people up and shoving them around and I suddenly got angry. I thought that we have been driven [by the Chinese

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» Freedom Advocate Warns China's Web Censorship Could Spread... - 14-June-2010
Freedom Advocate Warns China's Web Censorship Could Spread June 14, 2010 Kate Woodsome | Washington 08 June 2010  China has announced its Internet policy, releasing an official "white paper," which both hails the space the Web creates for citizen voices and reaffirms Beijing's commitment to the "Great Firewall" of censorship. VOA's Kate Woodsome spoke with Geordie Guy, the vice-chair of the Internet freedom group Electronic Frontiers Australia, about how other governments are taking cues from Beijing. GEORDIE GUY: "What China does now by releasing this white paper, is it indicates how it’s going to act and it sets a precedent for how other countries are going to act moving forward. Australia as a country is looking at moving forward with its own Internet censorship system, and in the last few weeks we’ve seen South Africa say that they’re looking at implementing an Internet censorship system using Australia as their hallmark on where the

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» Google Says West Should Press China On Censorship - 14-June-2010
Google Says West Should Press China On Censorship June 14, 2010 by NPR Staff and Wires June 9, 2010 The world's largest search engine is asking U.S. and European governments to put more pressure on China to stop censoring the Internet. Google's top attorney, David Drummond, described the practice as an unfair barrier to free trade and said Western governments should defend the flow of information the same way they do products. The West has complained to the World Trade Organization that China sells its goods below cost and undermines competitors. He said government talks are "the only way that it's going to change, that this tide of censorship or this rising censorship is going to be arrested." Google withdrew from mainland China and stopped self-censoring searches in late March after a cyberattack compromised Google security. Google searches from China now go through Hong Kong. "Censorship, in addition to being a human-rights problem, is a trade barrier," Drummond

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» Police Raid Quran Group - 14-June-2010
Police Raid Quran Group June 14, 2010 2010-06-08 Authorities in northwest China raid a Muslim study group as part of a religious crackdown. RFA Chinese People's Armed Police in front of the Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, on July 9, 2009. HONG KONG—Authorities near the western Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's troubled region of Xinjiang have detained a group of ethnic Uyghur women who had formed a group to study the Quran, overseas groups said. "More than 30 Uyghur women were raided in force by the Chinese police in recent days after they got together to study the Quran," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress. "They detained all those present and confiscated more than 40 Qurans." Raxit said that the Chinese government said the women were engaging in illegal religious activities. "They forced them to take off their headscarves and detained two of them on criminal charges," he said. While the rest of the women were rele

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» HRIC Briefing Note: Tighter Regulation of Foreign Funding Support of Chinese Civil Society Groups... - 14-June-2010
HRIC Briefing Note: Tighter Regulation of Foreign Funding Support of Chinese Civil Society Groups June 14, 2010 http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision%5fid=174778&item%5fid=174774 May 27, 2010   On March 1, 2010, a new set of rules on foreign donations issued by the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE) went into effect. The rules were set out in the government notice Circular of the SAFE on Relevant Issues Concerning the Administration of Donations in Foreign Exchange by Domestic Institutions (???????????????????). The new rules on foreign donations were followed by the issuance of the Provisional Regulations on the Protection of Commercial Secrets of Central State-Owned Enterprises (??????????????, March 25) and the promulgation of the revised Law on Guarding State Secrets (???????, April 29). These legal developments reflect ongoing efforts to constrain independent civil society groups through tighter regulation over information and greater contr

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» Sichuan High Court Upholds Five-Year Sentence for Earthquake Activist Tan Zuoren... - 14-June-2010
Sichuan High Court Upholds Five-Year Sentence for Earthquake Activist Tan Zuoren June 14, 2010 June 09, 2010   (Chinese / ??) The Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court has upheld the five-year sentence, with three years of deprivation of political rights, of Tan Zuoren (???), the Sichuan environmental activist and writer convicted of “inciting subversion of state power.” The decision was announced on June 9, 2010, in a 12-minute-long hearing held in the Chengdu Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, the court that originally tried Tan on August 12, 2009.  In the appeal statement he filed after the original guilty verdict, Tan declared: “I am not guilty; I don’t accept [the verdict]; I protest; I appeal.” (“???,???,???,???!”) Tan’s lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang (???), told Human Rights in China (HRIC) that he did not expect a different outcome. “This was not a trial in accordance with law, but a trial to protect the i

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Uyghur News / Uyghur American Association

» A Guantánamo detainee in your town? Two Massachusetts towns say "yes"... - 13-June-2010
For OpEdNews Steve Burns - WriterSince the opening of the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a well-orchestrated propaganda campaign has stoked our fears of those held in the prison, who have been routinely referred to as the "Worst of the worst." After President Obama announced a plan to transfer Guantánamo prisoners to a prison within the U.S., the fear-mongering kicked into high gear and Congress capitulated, blocking funds for the transfer, based on the irrational belief that no prison could be secure enough to protect us from Guantánamo's super-terrorists. But some towns are now shaking off the fear and fighting back against the fear-mongers with an unusual tactic: Town-hall resolutions that invite the Federal government to relocate a released Guantánamo detainee in their town. The campaign, organized by No More Guantánamos, has been helped by recent findings that the vast majority of those held in the prison are in fact innocent vict

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» Xinjiang still 'seething' - 13-June-2010
Straits Times Jun 13, 2010 BEIJING - ONE year after deadly riots in China's Xinjiang, Beijing has reaffirmed policies that have angered Muslims in the region, raising the spectre of further unrest, a top Uighur activist said. In an interview with AFP, Ilham Tohti - an outspoken professor, blogger and member of the Muslim Uighur minority - said China's 'carrot and stick' pairing of economic development with tight security controls had failed Uighurs. It has instead benefited members of China's majority Han ethnicity who are flooding into the region, while Xinjiang's eight million Uighurs are becoming further marginalised in their ancient homeland, with no end in sight, he said. 'The situation for Uighurs in Xinjiang is increasingly bad,' Mr Tohti, 40, said in his modest flat on the campus of Beijing's Minzu University of China, where he lectures - under watchful eyes - on economics and Uighur issues. 'In this climate, it is very hard to bring together Uighurs and Han, immigrants and lo

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» UK will not issue passports to the Uighur Four Gozney - 13-June-2010
The Royal Gazette By Sam Strangeways Published: June 11. 2010 11:06AM The UK remains adamant that Bermuda's four Uighurs have no entitlement to British nationality — a year after their arrival on the Island. Governor Sir Richard Gozney told The Royal Gazette this week that talks continued between Britain and the US about former Guantánamo Bay prisoners Khalil Mamut, Ablikim Turahun, Salahidin Abdulahad and Abdulla Abdulqadir. But he insisted there was nothing in law to allow them to seek British or British Overseas Territories' citizenship or refugee travel documents. The Attorney General has previously said the men can stay here indefinitely with the permission of the Immigration Minister — but without passports or travel documents they would never be able to leave. Mr. Mamut, 32, said on Wednesday he and his friends wanted to spend the rest of their lives on the Island — but missed relatives in their homeland of Chinese Turkestan. "We can say nothing about [

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Uyghur News / Uyghur Human Rights Project

» A Guantánamo detainee in your town? Two Massachusetts towns say "yes"... - 13-June-2010
For OpEdNewsSteve Burns - WriterSince the opening of the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a well-orchestrated propaganda campaign has stoked our fears of those held in the prison, who have been routinely referred to as the "Worst of the worst." After President Obama announced a plan to transfer Guantánamo prisoners to a prison within the U.S., the fear-mongering kicked into high gear and Congress capitulated, blocking funds for the transfer, based on the irrational belief that no prison could be secure enough to protect us from Guantánamo's super-terrorists.But some towns are now shaking off the fear and fighting back against the fear-mongers with an unusual tactic: Town-hall resolutions that invite the Federal government to relocate a released Guantánamo detainee in their town.The campaign, organized by No More Guantánamos, has been helped by recent findings that the vast majority of those held in the prison are in fact innocent victims

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» Xinjiang still 'seething' - 13-June-2010
Straits TimesJun 13, 2010 BEIJING - ONE year after deadly riots in China's Xinjiang, Beijing has reaffirmed policies that have angered Muslims in the region, raising the spectre of further unrest, a top Uighur activist said. In an interview with AFP, Ilham Tohti - an outspoken professor, blogger and member of the Muslim Uighur minority - said China's 'carrot and stick' pairing of economic development with tight security controls had failed Uighurs. It has instead benefited members of China's majority Han ethnicity who are flooding into the region, while Xinjiang's eight million Uighurs are becoming further marginalised in their ancient homeland, with no end in sight, he said. 'The situation for Uighurs in Xinjiang is increasingly bad,' Mr Tohti, 40, said in his modest flat on the campus of Beijing's Minzu University of China, where he lectures - under watchful eyes - on economics and Uighur issues. 'In this climate, it is very hard to bring together Uighurs and Han, immigrants and loc

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» UK will not issue passports to the Uighur Four ? Gozney - 13-June-2010
The Royal GazetteBy Sam Strangeways Published: June 11. 2010 11:06AM The UK remains adamant that Bermuda's four Uighurs have no entitlement to British nationality — a year after their arrival on the Island. Governor Sir Richard Gozney told The Royal Gazette this week that talks continued between Britain and the US about former Guantánamo Bay prisoners Khalil Mamut, Ablikim Turahun, Salahidin Abdulahad and Abdulla Abdulqadir. But he insisted there was nothing in law to allow them to seek British or British Overseas Territories' citizenship or refugee travel documents. The Attorney General has previously said the men can stay here indefinitely with the permission of the Immigration Minister — but without passports or travel documents they would never be able to leave. Mr. Mamut, 32, said on Wednesday he and his friends wanted to spend the rest of their lives on the Island — but missed relatives in their homeland of Chinese Turkestan. "We can say nothing about [t

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Uyghur News / Radio Free Asia English

» Cheonan Fallout Hits Defectors - 11-June-2010
North Korea's youngest defectors feel shunned by peers amid rising inter-Korean tensions. AFP A floating crane lifts the stern of the South Korean warship Cheonan out of the ocean, April 15, 2010. SEOUL—Younger defectors in South Korea say they feel increased pressure amid the fallout from the deadly sinking of a South Korean ship by North Korea in late March. As soon as investigations confirmed the North's involvement, young North Korean defectors, who are all now citizens of South Korea, said they were subjected to constant questioning by classmates over the incident. "Before, when I introduced myself to a stranger, saying that I was from North Korea, people would just think ‘Wow, he came from a tough place,’" one young defector told a round-table discussion between defectors and South Korean students sparked by the sinking incident. "However, now, when I introduce myself as someone born in North Korea, people can’t avoid thinking of the Cheonan," he added. "I think I sense this prej

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» Veteran ‘Starved’ in Black Jail - 11-June-2010
Unofficially detained, a former Chinese military man dies of hunger. AFP Chinese petitioners show documents during a gathering outside a courthouse in Beijing, April 3, 2008. HONG KONG—Petitioners in the northern Chinese province of Shaanxi who were held in a “law study center” after they pursued complaints against local officials weren’t given enough food in detention, with one death reported from starvation, relatives and former inmates said. “It was very serious,” said one former inmate of the Chenggu county law study center. “They shut you up in there and they don’t give you food or water. We were all fainting in there together.” “They never mention the law, and they never talk about anything. We were just locked up in there for 10 months because we made a complaint.” Xu Lingjun, a disabled retiree from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), died in the center, which was set up by the Communist Party’s politics and law committee of Shaanxi’s Chenggu county, the former fellow inmate sa

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» Uyghur Held in Leak Case - 11-June-2010
Chinese authorities are said to be detaining an ethnic Uyghur whose Kazakh visa had lapsed. AFP Chinese paramilitary police trucks drive through downtown Urumqi, July 9, 2009. HONG KONG—A man detained in connection with the leaking of information to international news media about the death in custody of a fellow Uyghur in northwest China has been missing for eight months, according to his wife, who now lives in Kazakhstan. Enver Israil, 33, was detained last year on Oct. 1 along with around 20 other men in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by authorities who were unable to locate his elder brother, Ershidin Israil. Police were searching for Ershidin Israil, 38, for allegedly releasing details of the beating death of Shohret Tursun, whom Uyghur police had detained on suspicion of participating in deadly ethnic riots in the capital Urumqi in July 2009. Enver Israil’s wife Asiye Kerimova is a native of Kazakhstan, whose border lies near the Israil family home in Ghulja, in

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» Sisters Visit Jailed Monk - 11-June-2010
A well-known Tibetan monk is said to be ailing in detention. Photo: Wikipedia Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, in an undated photo. UPDATED AND EDITED AT 1530 EST TO CLARIFY CHINESE LAW REGARDING THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY HONG KONG—Two sisters of a prominent Tibetan monk serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail despite an international outcry have visited him the southwestern province of Sichuan, where supporters have repeatedly rallied in his defense. "The two sisters met Tenzin Delek Rinpoche on April 27, 2010," said a source from Lithang, a Tibetan region of Sichuan province. "They had been requesting to meet him for a long time." The source said the sisters hurried to an unspecified meeting place some 200 miles (320 kms) from the provincial capital, Chengdu, after being informed of the meeting two days earlier. A second source confirmed the visit. "On April 25, 2010, the deputy governor and the head prosecutor in Lithang county suddenly appeared at the house of Sonam Dekyi and Dolkar, th

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Uyghur News / Uyghur American Association

» Kyrgyzstan imposes curfew after clashes kill 23 - 11-June-2010
Article Link By Tolkun Namatbayeva AFP BISHKEK — Kyrgyzstan's interim government declared a state of emergency and slapped a curfew on southern parts of the country Friday after ethnic clashes left at least 23 people dead and over 300 wounded. Interim President Roza Otunbayeva - whose government has struggled to assert its rule over the ex-Soviet state since taking power amid unrest in April - backed off earlier statements that authorities had regained control. "The situation remains tense. Similar conflicts occurred in the month of May. Then we were able to bring the situation under control by imposing a state of emergency," she said in a statement. "Now again we are forced to impose a curfew." Witnesses reached in Kyrgyzstan's southern capital Osh by telephone described chaotic scenes, with gunfire ringing out throughout the day and heavily armed helicopters swooping low over the centre of the city. "I can't leave the city. There are no flights, no cars, no public transport wh

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» Wage unrest threatens Beijing's power - 11-June-2010
Financial Post Peter Koven Wednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 A wave of labour unrest and worker suicides in China shows that the demand for higher wages is rising much faster than the government anticipated. That could put it under tremendous pressure as it tries to shift the economy away from its huge reliance on exports, experts say. It could also signal that the days of cheap Chinese labour and exports are approaching an end. In recent days, Chinese media have jumped on a series of incidents that show workers in its manufacturing sector are losing patience with their extremely low wages. Electronics giant Foxconn Technology Group offered its workers a 70% wage increase after a reported 11 suicides in its Chinese workforce. At the same time, Honda Motor Co. has faced three unprecedented worker strikes. Those protestors were joined Wednesday by thousands more from a rubber factory near Shanghai. These actions have happened outside of government-sponsored unions, meaning that workers are demons

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» Uyghur Held in Leak Case - 11-June-2010
RFA 2010-06-11 HONG KONG—A man detained in connection with the leaking of information to international news media about the death in custody of a fellow Uyghur in northwest China has been missing for eight months, according to his wife, who now lives in Kazakhstan. Enver Israil, 33, was detained last year on Oct. 1 along with around 20 other men in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by authorities who were unable to locate his elder brother, Ershidin Israil. Police were searching for Ershidin Israil, 38, for allegedly releasing details of the beating death of Shohret Tursun, whom Uyghur police had detained on suspicion of participating in deadly ethnic riots in the capital Urumqi in July 2009. Enver Israil’s wife Asiye Kerimova is a native of Kazakhstan, whose border lies near the Israil family home in Ghulja, in Qorghas [in Chinese, Huocheng] county, Ili prefecture. “As you know, political prisoners in China don’t have the right to hire law

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» In China, unrest spreads as more workers rally - 11-June-2010
By Keith B. Richburg Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 11, 2010; 8:54 AM BEIJING - A series of labor strikes continued to spread Friday across parts of China, as newly emboldened workers pressed for higher wages and better conditions, posing a fresh challenge to the government and the country's only officially sanctioned union. In Zhangshan, in southeastern China, about 1,700 workers at a Honda Lock factory, which makes locks and keys for Honda Motors, staged an unusual march through the city streets Friday morning, according to media reports and labor activists. The workers walked off the job Wednesday, demanding more pay and the right to elect their own union representatives - a direct affront to China's official union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Two other Honda plants in Guangdong province remain idle because of work stoppages. Meanwhile, the unrest spread to China's other main industrial base in the Yangtze River Delta, when 2,000 workers at a Taiwanese comp

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» In China, unrest spreads as more workers rally - 11-June-2010
By Keith B. Richburg Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 11, 2010; 8:54 AM BEIJING - A series of labor strikes continued to spread Friday across parts of China, as newly emboldened workers pressed for higher wages and better conditions, posing a fresh challenge to the government and the country's only officially sanctioned union. In Zhangshan, in southeastern China, about 1,700 workers at a Honda Lock factory, which makes locks and keys for Honda Motors, staged an unusual march through the city streets Friday morning, according to media reports and labor activists. The workers walked off the job Wednesday, demanding more pay and the right to elect their own union representatives - a direct affront to China's official union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Two other Honda plants in Guangdong province remain idle because of work stoppages. Meanwhile, the unrest spread to China's other main industrial base in the Yangtze River Delta, when 2,000 workers at a Taiwanese comp

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» Police in China's Xinjiang hold anti-riot exercise - 11-June-2010
Article Link 2010-06-11 BEIJING — Police in China's restive Xinjiang region have held massive anti-riot exercises to prepare for the first anniversary of ethnic unrest that left nearly 200 people dead, state press reported. Nearly 1,000 police, anti-riot squads, special forces and paramilitary police participated in the joint exercises in the regional capital Urumqi, where the ethnic riots exploded in July 2009, the China News Service said. Photos of the exercises in China's traditionally Muslim far west showed riot police using clubs and water cannons against mock rioters, while attack dogs, snipers and machine-gun wielding assault teams were also mobilised. "This is a comprehensive test of the emergency response of the Urumqi police at all levels," the report quoted a police official as saying. "We are assessing our level to address sudden incidents and to better clarify the responsibilities and methods of police forces." Last July, nearly 200 people were killed and up to 1,70

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» Iran blames U.S. for 'bullying' China to join sanctions... - 11-June-2010
By Keith B. Richburg Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 11, 2010; 9:31 AM BEIJING - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday brushed off as "worthless paper" a new U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against his country, and he seemed to blame the United States for "bullying" his ally, China, into joining the sanctions push. Visiting Shanghai just two days after China succumbed to international pressure and supported a fourth round of sanctions, Ahmadinejad, at a news conference, aimed most of his wrath at the Obama administration and Israel, but seemed conciliatory toward Beijing. "We have very good relations with China, and we have no reason to weaken our relations with China," Ahmadinejad said after touring the Iranian and Chinese pavilions at the Shanghai World Expo. "I said the problem is the United States." He said the Obama administration had subjected other countries on the Security Council to "pressure and intimidation" and "bullying." Ahmadinejad was sch

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» Another man in Sweden accused of spying for China - 11-June-2010
Article Link Published Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:20 Author: Johan Nylander / AFP A 40-year-old man from the Stockholm area is suspected of having been involved with systematic spying on refugees for the Chinese government, Swedish Radio said, referring to the Metro newspaper. He is thought to have spied from autumn 2008 until spring last year. In March, A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden for the past 13 years as a political refugee was sentenced to 16 months in prison for spying for China on Uighur expatriates. The man, identified in court documents as Swedish citizen Babur Maihesuti, was found guilty of "aggravated illegal espionage activity" and was sentenced to one year and four months behind bars, the Stockholm district court said. Police suspect the two cases are linked, the newspaper said. China hit back at the accusations it was spying on exiled dissident groups. "This kind of accusation is totally groundless and has ulterior motives," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang tol

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» Unspoken Russian-Chinese Rivalry Is Subtext Of SCO Summit - 11-June-2010
RFE/RL June 10, 2010 By Bruce Pannier As the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathers in Tashkent for its annual summit on June 10-11, what isn’t discussed might be more telling than what is. The situation in Afghanistan has become a regular talking point among the grouping's six full members - China, Russia, and the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Political stability in Kyrgyzstan, where protests led to the ouster of President Kurmanbek Bakiev in April, is also on the agenda. So are cooperative efforts - the SCO's stated reason for being - in areas including antinarcotics measures, thwarting the designs of Islamic militants, and the traditional avenues of education, legal matters, science, and culture. But the elephant in the room during the two-day summit will be relations between the SCO's two anchors - Russia and China - whose ties have been slowly deteriorating, with the potential to greatly affect Central Asia. This is due to

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Uyghur News / Uyghur Human Rights Project

» Kyrgyzstan imposes curfew after clashes kill 23 - 11-June-2010
Article LinkBy Tolkun NamatbayevaAFP BISHKEK — Kyrgyzstan's interim government declared a state of emergency and slapped a curfew on southern parts of the country Friday after ethnic clashes left at least 23 people dead and over 300 wounded. Interim President Roza Otunbayeva - whose government has struggled to assert its rule over the ex-Soviet state since taking power amid unrest in April - backed off earlier statements that authorities had regained control. "The situation remains tense. Similar conflicts occurred in the month of May. Then we were able to bring the situation under control by imposing a state of emergency," she said in a statement. "Now again we are forced to impose a curfew." Witnesses reached in Kyrgyzstan's southern capital Osh by telephone described chaotic scenes, with gunfire ringing out throughout the day and heavily armed helicopters swooping low over the centre of the city. "I can't leave the city. There are no flights, no cars, no public transport what

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» In China, unrest spreads as more workers rally - 11-June-2010
By Keith B. RichburgWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, June 11, 2010; 8:54 AM BEIJING - A series of labor strikes continued to spread Friday across parts of China, as newly emboldened workers pressed for higher wages and better conditions, posing a fresh challenge to the government and the country's only officially sanctioned union. In Zhangshan, in southeastern China, about 1,700 workers at a Honda Lock factory, which makes locks and keys for Honda Motors, staged an unusual march through the city streets Friday morning, according to media reports and labor activists. The workers walked off the job Wednesday, demanding more pay and the right to elect their own union representatives - a direct affront to China's official union, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Two other Honda plants in Guangdong province remain idle because of work stoppages. Meanwhile, the unrest spread to China's other main industrial base in the Yangtze River Delta, when 2,000 workers at a Taiwanese comput

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» Unspoken Russian-Chinese Rivalry Is Subtext Of SCO Summit - 11-June-2010
RFE/RLJune 10, 2010By Bruce Pannier As the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathers in Tashkent for its annual summit on June 10-11, what isn’t discussed might be more telling than what is. The situation in Afghanistan has become a regular talking point among the grouping's six full members - China, Russia, and the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Political stability in Kyrgyzstan, where protests led to the ouster of President Kurmanbek Bakiev in April, is also on the agenda. So are cooperative efforts - the SCO's stated reason for being - in areas including antinarcotics measures, thwarting the designs of Islamic militants, and the traditional avenues of education, legal matters, science, and culture. But the elephant in the room during the two-day summit will be relations between the SCO's two anchors - Russia and China - whose ties have been slowly deteriorating, with the potential to greatly affect Central Asia. This is due to t

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» Uyghur Held in Leak Case - 11-June-2010
RFA2010-06-11HONG KONG—A man detained in connection with the leaking of information to international news media about the death in custody of a fellow Uyghur in northwest China has been missing for eight months, according to his wife, who now lives in Kazakhstan. Enver Israil, 33, was detained last year on Oct. 1 along with around 20 other men in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) by authorities who were unable to locate his elder brother, Ershidin Israil. Police were searching for Ershidin Israil, 38, for allegedly releasing details of the beating death of Shohret Tursun, whom Uyghur police had detained on suspicion of participating in deadly ethnic riots in the capital Urumqi in July 2009. Enver Israil’s wife Asiye Kerimova is a native of Kazakhstan, whose border lies near the Israil family home in Ghulja, in Qorghas [in Chinese, Huocheng] county, Ili prefecture. “As you know, political prisoners in China don’t have the right to hire lawye

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» Wage unrest threatens Beijing's power - 11-June-2010
Financial PostPeter KovenWednesday, Jun. 9, 2010 A wave of labour unrest and worker suicides in China shows that the demand for higher wages is rising much faster than the government anticipated. That could put it under tremendous pressure as it tries to shift the economy away from its huge reliance on exports, experts say. It could also signal that the days of cheap Chinese labour and exports are approaching an end. In recent days, Chinese media have jumped on a series of incidents that show workers in its manufacturing sector are losing patience with their extremely low wages. Electronics giant Foxconn Technology Group offered its workers a 70% wage increase after a reported 11 suicides in its Chinese workforce. At the same time, Honda Motor Co. has faced three unprecedented worker strikes. Those protestors were joined Wednesday by thousands more from a rubber factory near Shanghai. These actions have happened outside of government-sponsored unions, meaning that workers are demonstr

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» Police in China's Xinjiang hold anti-riot exercise - 11-June-2010
Article Link2010-06-11BEIJING — Police in China's restive Xinjiang region have held massive anti-riot exercises to prepare for the first anniversary of ethnic unrest that left nearly 200 people dead, state press reported. Nearly 1,000 police, anti-riot squads, special forces and paramilitary police participated in the joint exercises in the regional capital Urumqi, where the ethnic riots exploded in July 2009, the China News Service said. Photos of the exercises in China's traditionally Muslim far west showed riot police using clubs and water cannons against mock rioters, while attack dogs, snipers and machine-gun wielding assault teams were also mobilised. "This is a comprehensive test of the emergency response of the Urumqi police at all levels," the report quoted a police official as saying. "We are assessing our level to address sudden incidents and to better clarify the responsibilities and methods of police forces." Last July, nearly 200 people were killed and up to 1,700

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» Iran blames U.S. for 'bullying' China to join sanctions... - 11-June-2010
By Keith B. RichburgWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, June 11, 2010; 9:31 AM BEIJING - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday brushed off as "worthless paper" a new U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against his country, and he seemed to blame the United States for "bullying" his ally, China, into joining the sanctions push. Visiting Shanghai just two days after China succumbed to international pressure and supported a fourth round of sanctions, Ahmadinejad, at a news conference, aimed most of his wrath at the Obama administration and Israel, but seemed conciliatory toward Beijing. "We have very good relations with China, and we have no reason to weaken our relations with China," Ahmadinejad said after touring the Iranian and Chinese pavilions at the Shanghai World Expo. "I said the problem is the United States." He said the Obama administration had subjected other countries on the Security Council to "pressure and intimidation" and "bullying." Ahmadinejad was sched

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» Another man in Sweden accused of spying for China - 11-June-2010
Article LinkPublished Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:20Author: Johan Nylander / AFP A 40-year-old man from the Stockholm area is suspected of having been involved with systematic spying on refugees for the Chinese government, Swedish Radio said, referring to the Metro newspaper. He is thought to have spied from autumn 2008 until spring last year. In March, A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden for the past 13 years as a political refugee was sentenced to 16 months in prison for spying for China on Uighur expatriates. The man, identified in court documents as Swedish citizen Babur Maihesuti, was found guilty of "aggravated illegal espionage activity" and was sentenced to one year and four months behind bars, the Stockholm district court said. Police suspect the two cases are linked, the newspaper said. China hit back at the accusations it was spying on exiled dissident groups. "This kind of accusation is totally groundless and has ulterior motives," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told

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Uyghur News / World Tibet News

» Impasse at pass - The shooting of Kelsang Namtso - 11-June-2010
Impasse at pass - The shooting of Kelsang Namtso June 11, 2010 Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet. By Jonathan Green. PublicAffairs; 304 pages; $26.95 AT THE heart of Jonathan Green’s new book is an ugly encounter that underscores both China’s barbarous treatment of Tibetans and the West’s confused, thin-blooded response to it. In September 2006 Chinese border guards shot dead a 17-year old nun, Kelsang Namtso, in front of dozens of international mountaineers on a pass between Nepal and Tibet. A Romanian climber filmed the killing, which was broadcast around the world. The barren atmosphere that overshadows Namtso’s impoverished upbringing is reinforced by a tyranny of petty interference by Chinese officials. After becoming a nun against her family’s wishes, she set off on a pilgrimage to meet the Dalai Lama, in exile in India. Despite Chinese efforts to stop the practice, some 2,500 to 3,500 Tibetans make the journey eac

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Uyghur News / Radio Free Asia English

» 'Scant Room' for Reform Debate - 10-June-2010
A proposed reform to Hong Kong's electoral process launches a debate on how new legislative seats will be chosen. RFA Protesters march against proposed political reforms in Hong Kong, June 2010. HONG KONG—Hong Kong has 'little room' for debate over the latest proposals by ruling party members for changes to the territory's political system, officials say, with pro-democracy politicians vowing to vote against the package if no changes are made."Under the framework of the Standing Committee of [China's] National People's Congress (NPC) decision of 2007, we have already strived for maximum latitude in putting forth such a package," Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Secretary Stephen Lam told legislators this week.Lam said Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Donald Tsang had already secured "a clear timetable" for the former British colony to progress to universal suffrage, apparently referring to the promise of full, direct elections for the Chief Executive i

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» Farmers Threatened in Land Grab - 10-June-2010
Burmese farmers are threatened for seeking assistance after their land is confiscated by authorities. RFA Natmauk township in Burma's central Magwe division. BANGKOK—Burmese farmers preparing to file a complaint with an international NGO to assist them in a land grab case have been threatened by the military, according to a group representative. The farmer from central Magwe division said that on June 6, local authorities and members of the military offered them a mere 12 kyat [U.S. $1 = 990 kyat at the current black-market exchange rate] per acre in compensation for confiscating more than 4,500 acres of their land in 2005. The amount of compensation proposed by the military is based on a property law issued during the British colonial period. Land in the area typically commands up to 500,000 kyat per acre. Soon after appropriating the land in Natmauk township’s Uyamon village in 2005, the military leased it to farmers from outside the community at 30,000 kyat per acre. "We were asked

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