Separatists' conspiracy will never succeed

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(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-08-22 08:27

Rebiya Kadeer, the alleged mastermind behind the July 5 riots in Urumqi, and the separatist organization World Uygur Congress (WUC) have been busy spreading lies about the riots. They attempt to distort the facts by a mass of falsified data, counterfeit pictures and videos. But several responsible media outlets have exposed the lies.

Separatists headed by Kadeer tried to create the false impression of "suppression" with fake pictures and videos. Since July 3, a netizen named "Mukadaisi," who is allegedly a key member of WUC, has spread a falsified video named "a Uygur girl beaten to death" on the Internet. He also incited Uygur people to "fight back with violence."

The video, in fact, comes from CNN News footage on May 2007, showing an Iraqi girl beaten to death by mobs armed with stones in Mosul, Iraq on April 7, 2007.

Kadeer also provided a picture to Al Jazeera to show "how police put down peaceful demonstrators in Urumqi." This supposed evidence proved to be a photo of a mass incident that happened in Shishou, Hubei province, which was first released on Nanfang Daily on June 26.

The caption of a picture released by Agence France Press (AFP) on July 8 said that "A demonstrator holds a child and a controversial picture released by the Uygur American Association that apparently shows victims of the violence of the deadly riots in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang during a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in Ankara on July 7, 2009." It also noted that "the picture might also be related to a car accident." Actually it is a photo of a car accident that occurred in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Separatists' intrigues to provoke hostile feelings among the public by fake evidences have been exposed consistently.

Kadeer has also spread rumors and exaggerated death tolls of the riots to tarnish the Chinese government. On July 8, the Wall Street Journal published an article named "The Real Uygur Story," written by Kadeer. In the article, she claimed that "Chinese authorities' inaction on the mob killing and beating of Uygur at a toy factory in Shaoguan in China's southern Guangdong province" is the origin of the July 5 riots in Urumqi.

In her statement on the July 5 riots released by WUC, she said that "Chinese police and paramilitary forces cracked down on thousands of Uygur demonstrators, killing hundreds and injuring hundreds more." She also said that "more than 100 people have been killed in the southern city of Kashgar, and troops are out in force to suppress demonstrations that occurred in both Kashgar and the nearby city of Hotan." What is more ridiculous is that she even said "two Chinese soldiers have been posted to each Uygur families" in "The Real Uygur Story."

Kadeer has lied again. Qurban Keyum, a liaison of WUC in China, has confessed to the police that he had provided fake information about the Shaoguan mass incident to the Congress overseas, which was then used to promote their separatist activities. He admitted that he "was busy and never thought about going to Shaoguan."

Journalists of the South China Morning Post contacted several witnesses in Kashgar and Hotan, and they said they "were unable to verify her (Kadeer) claims." In the coverage the journalists wrote that dozens of witnesses of Urumqi riots said "they had not seen armored vehicles entering the crowds or heard any gunshot through the night." They wrote that "reporters did not find evidence of claims about killings in Kashgar - there was no large gathering." These facts strongly refuted the rumors Kadeer spread.

Behind these lies are the ulterior motives of the separatists. In "The Real Uygur Story," Kadeer alleges that the Chinese government implemented "brutal suppression of Uygur throughout East Turkistan." In the interview of a newspaper called the Bermuda Sun, she said "China distorts facts in any kind of unrest to justify its heavy-handed rule in East Turkistan." Kadeer insisted using the word "East Turkistan" in reference to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. This use of "East Turkistan" exposes her plot of separation.

Xinjiang is an unalienable part of China, and there are no history books that say that Xinjiang was an independent country before 1949. "East Turkistan" is only a concept forged by separatists. Separatists fabricated the history of a nonexistent "East Turkistan" to advocate separation.

Lies can never conquer the truth. The separatists' conspiracy will never succeed because they cannot deceive the public with conscious minds.

China Daily

(China Daily 08/22/2009 page4)