Uygher Riots and India in America
I’ll deal with two topics in one post this time. Just because.
First, Kamla Bhatt talked a few days ago about how India is connected to the US in two little-known ways. First, Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem on the HMS Minden, which was built by a British ship-making company in India. It’s supposedly the first Indian built ship commissioned by the British. Second, Yale University is named after its first benefactor, Elihu Yale, who served as the British Governor of Madras twice in the late 1600′s.
Secondly, not as well covered as the Michael Jackson funeral are the riots in Xinjiang, China between Han Chinese and native Uyghers. Radio Free Asia has the latest news, as does the blog EastSouthWestNorth Official Chinese media have given one story, while independent agencies have given different ones, which Imagethief looks at. The Government’s also banned Twitter and Facebook in order to stop people from organizing. Taiwan remains silent on the riots, which The Far-Eastern Sweet Potato doesn’t like.
Just days before the riots started, Juliana Rincon Para at Global Voices took a look at Uyghers and their persecution by the government.
