Two weeks after the outbreak of ethnic violence in Xinjiang, Chinese authorities are working hard to convince international public opinion that those responsible were not only Uighur “separatists” who want the region to gain independence from Beijing but are actually terrorists, part of the al- Qaida network.
The China Daily, an official newspaper, published an article July 16 titled “Urumqi riots part of plan to help al-Qaida.” The article asserted, “Evidence shows Uighur separatists who orchestrated the July 5 riots in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have close relations with the Afghanistan-based al- Qaida.”
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