Torch relay worsens China crackdown: Uighur leader

Instead of moving forward China appears to be moving backward. You would think that China should be against colonialism and the oppression of people on that land, but instead they continue the practice by shoving it in our faces with this torch relay.

I no longer trust nor believe anything coming from the mouths of the Communist Party. I’m sure they will say anything to gain approval from the world community, as well as act on those claims themselves dressed as the alleged perpetrators. The communist party has already masquerade as Tibetans and Monks, so why not Uighur’s?

Torch relay worsens China crackdown: Uighur leader
“Everywhere, homes, hotels are searched. People are arrested,” Dolkun Isa, secretary general of the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, told AFP in Tokyo.

“Even people with no past records have been arrested simply because they look suspicious.”

Kadeer, who spent six years in a Chinese jail from 1999-2005 and now lives in exile in the United States, also repeated her charge that China fabricated recent claims that it broke up Xinjiang-based terror cells targeting the Olympics.

“China is using the occasion to host the 2008 Olympics as an opportunity to further demonise the Uighur peoples legitimate and peaceful struggle and justify its heavy-handed repression in East Turkestan,” she said.

China plans to bring the torch to Xinjiang on June 25-27 as part of a relay through the mainland that began on Sunday in the lead up to the August Olympics.

The torchs international relay route has been marred by protests against Chinas human rights record and crackdown on Tibet.