China's Press & Terrorists

China has found itstelf in a peculiar position of having to convince the rest of the world that they have a problem with terrorists in their country.  There is a certain justice to this.

China has rigidly controlled its press and only allowed it to comment using pre-scripted statements about terrorist attacks by Muslims in the Northwest of their country.  Doing research on some of these events is difficult, especially if you don't do it right after the event.  After that, the stories start disappearing.  In Friday's Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/as-china-joins-the-anti-isis-brigade-must-we-keep-quiet-about-the-uighurs-a6742641.html ]  there is good example, citing the killing of 28 terrorists by China's government.

You would think that the killing of 16 miners would attract some of the world's press.  It was nearly the same number as were killed in Mali.  Yet, we have nothing of this story on any of our news outlets - no videos, no interviews with grieving family members, no statements by government officials promising revenge or retaliation.  Maybe killing the 28 was both, but we don't know.

"First and foremost, it hopes to get the West to shut up about the Uighurs. Today, state media reported the killing of 28 “terrorists”, allegedly members of a group that was said to have killed 16 people at a coalmine in Xinjiang, the huge, sparsely populated region in the far-west of China where the largely Muslim Uighurs, a 10 million-strong Turkic race, are concentrated. "  The Uighurs have been killing people at regular intervals without using a lot of automatic weapons or explosives.  They terrorize by using knives and meat cleavers, something ISIS has tried now and again.  I had several of these stories in The Chinese Information War and they are gruesome tales that included killing children in cold blood in broad daylight in a public train station.  Reports on that are few and far between.  

So  now, the Chinese want us to see that they have terrorists too.  They live  by the coverup  and now find it difficult to uncover what they spent so much times and effort plowing under.   If there is justice in the world, this is  it.