| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - China: Uighur Group Added To U.S. List Of Terrorist Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | But various Uighur organizations in Xinjiang and abroad have continued their struggle for independence -- a struggle the Chinese government has tried to characterize as terrorist-based and a threat to international security. |
 | | Can, like many of his fellow Uighurs, fears the U.S. decision to include ETIM on its list of terrorist organizations will prompt the Chinese government to step up its crackdown on Uighurs, suppressing their efforts at a national and cultural revival in the name of fighting terrorism. |
 | | Because if it does proceed to ban other groups which are not terrorist, and indeed just people expressing their peaceful wish to secede, for example, from China, then it could signal a green light for the Chinese government to go ahead and increase its repression," Catsanis said. |
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