Six Chinese Muslims arrive in tiny Pacific nation that agreed to US resettlement requestSix Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantánamo Bay have arrived in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which agreed to a US request to resettle them.The Uighurs, i... ...full story at Guardian Unlimited
from Guardian Unlimited on Sun, Nov 01 2009
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China ' crushing Muslim Uighurs ' ( Rebiya Kadeer ) »
YouTube video China has been accused of conducting a 'campaign of religious repression' against Muslim Uighurs.
Rebiya Kadeer is an ethnic Uighur who was imprisoned by the Chinese in 1999, and released in 14 March 2005.
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| 18 Jun 09 |
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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... |
| 10 Jun 09 |
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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... |
| 10 Jun 09 |
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The Pacific Solution – Uighurs May Land in Australia’s Backyard » China Journal Reluctant to send back to China the 17 Uighurs being detained at Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration has stumbled upon the Pacific solution, an approach pioneered by former Australian Prime Minister John Howard. |
| 06 Nov 09 |
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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... |
| 08 Oct 08 |
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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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