rgj...Excluding minorities and using government agency to suppress and repress them indicates a failure of those who govern the agency of Government...rgj...Uighur exiles and rights activists, however, blame the unrest on Beijings allegedly repressive and discriminatory policies. Beijing (CNN) (CNN) -- URGENT, read the Iraqi News headline of its September 3 posting. First Chinese ISIS fighter captured in Iraq says Ministry of Defense. The Iraqi Army has captured an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria fighter from China, the Baghdad-datelined report said. Two pictures accompanied the report: one showed the captured militant in fatigue pants and a bloodied shirt, lying on the ground; another showed him escorted by an Iraqi soldier, his face seemingly swollen. If true, he would be the first Chinese national to have been caught fighting with ISIS militants. We are not able to verify whether or not the information is true, said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang, responding to a foreign reporters question. I cannot confirm the information for you. Its not clear how many Chinese nationals may be fighting with the ISIS. Wu Sike, until recently Chinas special envoy to the Middle East, earlier stated that there could be about 100 of them, but Qin Gang said he had no specific numbers or estimates. Chinese netizens reaction was typically visceral. Kill them! commented Hellen on the Iraqi News website. we chinese are glad to see these muslims death! If such reports are true, said Chinese commentator Victor Gao, this will be an additional evidence that terrorism in China has a strong international connection. Terrorism does not care about national borders. It remains unclear if the captured Chinese national is actually Uighur, a Muslim minority group in Xinjiang, but Gao seems to assume so. In China terrorism is raising its ugly head and is spreading from Xinjiang to other parts of China. The underlying drivers for terrorism are mainly the congruence of domestic and international forces at play among some extreme elements of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang, he added. Xinjiang, a resource-rich and strategically located region in northwest China, for years has been beset by ethnic violence, which the government blames on fenliefenzi (separatists). Uighur exiles and rights activists, however, blame the unrest on Beijings allegedly repressive and discriminatory policies. A spate of violent incidents have been blamed on the Uighurs.
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