the news is suppressed by china and not freely publicized as in other countries. a violent islamic seperatist movement and equally brutal crackdown by chinese PLA.
China Anti-terror Raid Kills 18 Uighur Muslim in Xinjiang
Beijing has branded them part of the "Bin Laden Clique," making human rights monitors worry that China is stepping up repression of its own Muslim minority. But Uighurs say things in the distant Wild West remain unchanged, meaning miserable and hopeless.
