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N.B.: The following article is an automated translation done thru Google. So, it’s not literary English… Indeed, the aim is just to keep you informed with this point of view.
The attacks of August in Kashgar reminded Chinese authorities radicalization of some Uyghurs, desperate to get the independence of Xinjiang.
"There was a fear of revenge by Chinese authorities after the Games. During the competition, they have done everything to show the world a modern and harmonious, but now that athletes and international journalists have turned heels is Taking Stock! "Youssef, 29 years, protected by the anonymity of a tea house outside of Kashgar, beautiful oasis on the ancient Silk Road, not far from Tajikistan, does not hide his pessimism.
Youssef is Uighur, an ethnic group different from the Han (dominating), Muslim religion and language close to Turkish, like the populations of five countries of former Soviet Central Asian neighbor (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan) with which, since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, links are getting stronger. In years 30 and 40, while the control of the central government of China was weakened by civil war and Japanese invasion, the Uighurs had established two republics Turkestan a short lifespan, but remained in the Uighur imagination: since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, says that people have a permanent and growing repression by the Chinese State which periodically leads to rebellion. Officially and constitutionally, the Uighurs of Xinjiang have regional autonomy, which in practice does not exist: the head of the Communist Party of the region is a Han Chinese, as well as the police, officials local districts and university rectors. The Uighurs still come in second place. It does concede that posts symbolic.