The latest riot in Xinjiang shows how hard it is to keep a harmonic society. I want to talk about two things.
The first thing is my thinking about Uyghur and Han relationship. I am of one that hate to use history to justify a country's claim of a land. To me it is ridiculous to say that because a Chinese dynasty 2000 years ago ruled Xinjiang, therefore it has to be forever be part of Chinese. And equally ridiculous is the notion that just because a region had be autonomous for a few years in the past century, therefore, they should be independent. I think politicians on both side, Chinese and Uyghur groups wants independence, exploit history and nit picking events to justify their hunger for power. So on independence, I am neither against nor support it. I think people live there today need to decide.
But I am against violence and wanting to know the truth. Again, I think both side are at fault on this. The riot was triggered by an incident in a Guangzhou factory, where some rumor about Uyghur workers raped a Chinese girl caused a fight between Chinese and Uyghur workers. 2 Uyghur workers were reported killed. I think people spread the rumor has to be punished. They have to take responsibility of what they have caused. Same to the people involved in the fight. However, such an incident does not justify rioting. Protesting is ok, but beating bystanders and women and children is simply evil. The wrong went from Chinese rumor spreaders to violent Uyghur rioters. Then the Chinese youth went into streets and looking for revenge, beating Uyghurs. Unfortunately, only peaceful people get beaten, Han or Uyghur. The cowards beating other people would have not way try to beat someone with a big stick.
I think it is important for majority of the people to understand violence cannot solve problems. I don't know what the Chinese government need to do, but some kind of dialog between community leaders of the two group would be nice. Trust has to be rebuild, otherwise it would be impossible for the peoples to live together.
The second part is my complaint to the non-Chinese medias. I think there are foreign governments wants to take the chance to weaken China. Western medias, especially US media, tends to root for the weaker side. However, it typically end up making things even worse, by viewed not being fair, it only hardens each group and build more resentments. I think the international community need to make sure a government does not over react, however, it is more important to be fair than to be haste. So far the US and western governments are dealing with the situation reasonably, but not the media. The Muslim media are even more biased towards Uyghurs. But one good thing is that they are not buying the lies the World Uyghur Congress spills out. They typically turns the issue for an ethic fueled riot into a fight against Chinese rule. I am fine if people want to discuss right of people, but using dead people, especially in this case Chinese dead as a political tool is disgusting.
The first thing is my thinking about Uyghur and Han relationship. I am of one that hate to use history to justify a country's claim of a land. To me it is ridiculous to say that because a Chinese dynasty 2000 years ago ruled Xinjiang, therefore it has to be forever be part of Chinese. And equally ridiculous is the notion that just because a region had be autonomous for a few years in the past century, therefore, they should be independent. I think politicians on both side, Chinese and Uyghur groups wants independence, exploit history and nit picking events to justify their hunger for power. So on independence, I am neither against nor support it. I think people live there today need to decide.
But I am against violence and wanting to know the truth. Again, I think both side are at fault on this. The riot was triggered by an incident in a Guangzhou factory, where some rumor about Uyghur workers raped a Chinese girl caused a fight between Chinese and Uyghur workers. 2 Uyghur workers were reported killed. I think people spread the rumor has to be punished. They have to take responsibility of what they have caused. Same to the people involved in the fight. However, such an incident does not justify rioting. Protesting is ok, but beating bystanders and women and children is simply evil. The wrong went from Chinese rumor spreaders to violent Uyghur rioters. Then the Chinese youth went into streets and looking for revenge, beating Uyghurs. Unfortunately, only peaceful people get beaten, Han or Uyghur. The cowards beating other people would have not way try to beat someone with a big stick.
I think it is important for majority of the people to understand violence cannot solve problems. I don't know what the Chinese government need to do, but some kind of dialog between community leaders of the two group would be nice. Trust has to be rebuild, otherwise it would be impossible for the peoples to live together.
The second part is my complaint to the non-Chinese medias. I think there are foreign governments wants to take the chance to weaken China. Western medias, especially US media, tends to root for the weaker side. However, it typically end up making things even worse, by viewed not being fair, it only hardens each group and build more resentments. I think the international community need to make sure a government does not over react, however, it is more important to be fair than to be haste. So far the US and western governments are dealing with the situation reasonably, but not the media. The Muslim media are even more biased towards Uyghurs. But one good thing is that they are not buying the lies the World Uyghur Congress spills out. They typically turns the issue for an ethic fueled riot into a fight against Chinese rule. I am fine if people want to discuss right of people, but using dead people, especially in this case Chinese dead as a political tool is disgusting.
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