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Around 200 ethnic Uighurs from around the world gathered in Japan on Monday for a five-day meeting to press their case for independence from China. HT Image Many Uighurs complain that they are the victims of state-sanctioned persecution and marginali
stanley cup sation in their homeland in northwest China, aided by the migration of millions of Han Chinese into the territory. The resulting ethnic tensions have led to sporadic flashes of violence in the Xinjiang region, which is home to nine million Uighurs. The exiled head of the World Uyghur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer told those assembled that Beijing s policy of forcible assimilation was unacceptable in a modern democracy. The Chinese government says it is assimilating and eventually eliminating the Uighur people and other indigenous people... meanwhile China is becoming a global power, she told the opening of the congress. We are peacefully struggling and hope the Chinese government will stop the repressing of Uighur people... and take political reforms to change their authoritarian rule. Chinese-style communism, Chinese-style human rights and Chinese-style democratisation is not up to date, said Kadeer, who lives in exile in the United States. The only thing left to China... is to embrace democracy and peace... and to stop the forcible assimilation of Uighurs and other peoples,
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Chinese authorities insisted an Internet filtering programme will go ahead despite a last-minute decision this week to postpone making it mandatory on new PCs, state media said on Thursday. HT Image Just hours before the July 1 deadline, the government indefinitely froze a ruling that all computers sold in China must have the Green Dam Youth Escort software installed. An official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, however, told the state-run English language China Daily newspaper that the directives delay was only temporary. The government will definitely carry on the directive on Green Dam. Its just a matter of time, the unnamed official was quoted as saying The comment contrasted sharply with messages in the state media only 24 hours earlier, suggesting the program
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