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| Anyone Have Helpful Insights Into The Recent China Ethnic Clashes? by DrDWelz(m): 12:14am On Jul 08, 2009 |
| Re: Anyone Have Helpful Insights Into The Recent China Ethnic Clashes? by NegroNtns(m): 12:41am On Jul 08, 2009 |
I am glad you asked for insights and not sources.  There is a cosmic cycle. . .this cycle has a psychotic effect on living humans and tend to promote certain flux in our behavioral patterns. When that cycle is at peak or is cresting, then events such as we are seeing around the globe will happen. Also, the bloodshed of the past eight years in New York towers, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza, London. . . you know, you add all these and there is a definite rebound in our psyche. Our fore fathers had a solution for it. When the cresting is beginning they will perform rituals. Of course you know to cure a venomous bite you also need a dosage of venom, under controlled application, to neutralize the bite poison. The flu virus is also cured with a flu vaccine. Small pox is cured by applying a culture of the small pox germ. Likewise, this problem of bloodletting and increased violence must be cured with blood rituals. . . I will let you conclude on that. |
| Re: Anyone Have Helpful Insights Into The Recent China Ethnic Clashes? by kelewa: 4:20am On Jul 08, 2009 |
Internet plays key role in China's latest unrest BEIJING— The brawl between Han Chinese and Uighurs in southern China was scarcely covered by state media, but accounts and photos spread quickly via the Internet and became a spark that helped ignite deadly riots thousands of miles away in the Uighur homeland. Even in tightly controlled China, relatively unfettered commentaries and images circulating on Web sites helped stir up tensions and rally people to join an initially peaceful protest in the Xinjiang region that spiraled into violence Sunday, leaving more than 150 people dead. In China, as in Iran and other hotspots, the Internet, social networking and micro-blogging are playing a central role in mobilizing people power — and becoming contested ground as governments fight back. Since the outburst in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, the Chinese government has blocked Twitter and Facebook, scrubbed news sites, unplugged the Internet entirely in some places and slowed it and cell phone service to a crawl in others to stifle reports about the violence — and get its own message out that authorities are in control. Key-word filters have been activated on search engines like Baidu and Google's Chinese version so that searches for "Xinjiang" or "Uighur" only turn up results that jibe with the official version of events. That a fight in one part of China could impact a riot 10 days later thousands of miles away underscores how slippery fast-evolving communication technologies can be even for an authoritarian government with the world's most extensive Internet monitoring system. Activists get around crackdown State media reports said only two people died in the June 25 fight between Uighur and Han Chinese workers at a toy factory in southern Shaoguan city. In the days that followed, however, graphic photos spread on the Internet purportedly showing at least a half-dozen bodies of Uighurs, with Han Chinese — members of China's majority ethnic group — standing over them, arms raised in victory. Expunged from some sites, the photos were posted and reposted, some on overseas servers beyond the reach of censors. Their impact was amplified by postings on bulletin boards and other sites. Uighurbiz.cn, a site popular among Uighurs, carried an open letter over the weekend suggesting there would be revenge for the factory fight. "You've beaten Uighurs, killed Uighurs and perhaps never thought about the consequences," said the letter posted by someone using the Uighur alias Yadkar. A flurry of postings on another popular site, Diyarim.com, began calling for action in Urumqi. Diyarim's founder, Dilixati, remembers one: "Gather at 5 p.m. at People's Square. Young people if you have time come to the square." The messages kept reappearing, and he called police to alert them and took the site off-line, said Dilixati, who would give only his first name for fear of reprisals. Hours after Sunday's riot, when police were still trying to pacify Urumqi's streets, Xinjiang's leaders went on TV to denounce Uighur separatists living abroad for using Diyarim and Uighurbiz to organize the disturbance. |
| Re: Anyone Have Helpful Insights Into The Recent China Ethnic Clashes? by kelewa: 4:20am On Jul 08, 2009 |
Internet plays key role in China's latest unrest http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31783071/ns/tech_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ |
| Re: Anyone Have Helpful Insights Into The Recent China Ethnic Clashes? by kelewa: 4:23am On Jul 08, 2009 |
Hours after Sunday's riot, when police were still trying to pacify Urumqi's streets, Xinjiang's leaders went on TV to denounce Uighur separatists living abroad for using Diyarim and Uighurbiz to organize the disturbance. |
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