The Obama administration has sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau ...full story at Financial Times
from Financial Times on Sun, Nov 01 2009
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Survivor Themes 9-16 »
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Uighurs may leave Guantanamo for Palau » Danwei Some of the seventeen Uighur detainees may be transferred from the Guantanamo prison to Palau, a North Pacific archipelago, reports the New York Times: The president of Palau, Johnson Toribiong, said his government had "agreed to accommodate the United... |
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Uighurs wary of move to Palau » Danwei The AP reports that although Palau has agreed to resettle some of the Uighurs held in Guantanamo, the men are not enthusiastic about going: The Uighurs appear reluctant to temporarily resettle in Palau, said Joshua Koshiba, who leads a committee on... |
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U.S. connivance of terrorists double-standard, detrimental » People's Daily The U.S. government recently sent six Chinese suspects of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement from a military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau. The short-sighted connivance was not only to the detriment of the... |
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Repatriate terrorists, China says » People's Daily China on Thursday called on the United States to return "Chinese Muslim terrorists" held at Guantanamo Bay, instead of sending them to the Pacific island nation of Palau. "The 17 Uygurs are members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which is on... |
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Some good news (we hope)… » Peking Duck I posted about the plight of Chinese Uighurs detained in Guantanamo over three years ago. As the Washington Post reported at that time: In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay,... |
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