RICHARD BERNSTEIN
China File - 09.08.14
It’s a very long way from China’s arid Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
in the country’s far northwest to its semi-tropical borders with
Vietnam, Laos, and Burma in the south, and then it’s another precarious
distance from there, down rivers and across fortified borders, all the
way to the seaside Thai town of Songkhla, about forty miles from the
Malaysian border. And it’s longer still from Songkhla to the
battlefields of Syria, thousands of miles away. But this town is where
more than two hundred members of the Uighur minority from Xinjiang—many
of them women and children—were arrested by Thai authorities in March
this year. They have been accused, apparently, of planning to wage jihad
in Syria.
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