Twitter campaign urges Modi and Obama to raise Tibet issue

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Source: Tibet Post

Minneapolis, MN: - The Tibetan National Congress (TNC), an independent Tibetan political party, launched a Twitter campaign to highlight the regional security implications of China's occupation of Tibet, as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to visit India.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that President Obama will be joining his monthly "Mann ki Baat" radio address on Tuesday, January 27. Modi said he was "eagerly looking forward" to the event, and invited people to submit questions via Twitter using the hashtag #AskObamaModi.

In response, TNC launched a social media campaign to tweet the following question to the two world leaders: "China's occupation of #Tibet is a regional security threat. How can we resolve it to secure peace? #AskObamaModi"

Tibet supporters from around the world have been re-tweeting this question, making it one of the leading tweets yesterday.

Read more: http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/4398-twitter-campaign-urges-modi-and-obama-to-raise-tibet-issue

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14 January 2015 Last updated at 11:49 GMT


China 'breaks Turkish-Uighur passport plot'

China arrested nine Muslim Uighurs and 10 Turkish nationals in November over a fake passport plot, state media report.

The Global Times said the Turks gave illegal passports to the Uighurs, who attempted to leave China.

Some of the Uighurs' phones contained "terrorist" material, the paper said, and several confessed they were heading for Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Chinese authorities say they are fighting an Islamist rebellion in Xinjiang, the Uighurs' home region.

More than 200 people died last year in bloody confrontations between Uighurs and Chinese security forces, hundreds of people have been arrested and dozens executed.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-30810439

Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region

XUAR (Xinxiang Uighur Autonomous Region), or East Turkistan, is a territory in western China that accounts for one-sixth of China's land and is home to about twenty million people from thirteen major ethnic groups, the largest of which (more than eight million) is the Uighurs [PRON: WEE-gurs], a predominantly Muslim community with ties to Central Asia. The Uyghur American Association (UAA) says that East Turkistan is a part of Central Asia, not of China. Some Uighurs call China's presence in Xinjiang a form of imperialism, and there have been movements for independence since the1990s through separatist groups like the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), inflamed in part by large migrations of Han Chinese to the region.

In February 2012, at least a dozen people died after being attacked on the street by Muslims armed with knives near Kashgar, the western part of Xinxiang located near China's border with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. After the Chinese government said the men involved had links to terrorists in Pakistan, a Chinese woman was also killed in Pakistan in what was considered a retaliatory attack. China claims the rioters were trained in Pakistan and has asked Pakistan to take "credible measures" to safeguard its citizens. XUAR shares borders with five Muslim countries--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan--which seems to be a Chinese concern. The China-Pakistan relationship in particular has been strained by the recent killings, and questions about China's traditional friendship with Pakistan are rising.

http://www.cfr.org/china/uighurs-chinas-xinjiang-region/p16870