"Tearing Down Old Kashgar: A Blow to the Uighurs"

[Strong Atheist]

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By some accounts, at least 85% of Old Kashgar will be knocked down. Many expect the ancient quarter, considered one of Central Asia's best preserved sites of Islamic architecture, to disappear almost entirely before the end of the year

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090729/wl_time/08599191316600

[On the Road]

1. Unlike Shanghai and Beijing

there's no shortage of land in Xinjiang -- it's in the middle of nowhere. Seems like they could have simply expanded to a new city center.

[FarCenter]

2. The Uighurs might not be in this situation if the CIA hadn't been training Uighur terrorists

The Chinese will take whatever measures are necessary to defeat Islamic terrorism.

[juno jones]

3. I find it interesting that per the recent Sibyl Edmonds revelations

that the CIA connected Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban were funneling aid to islamic extremists in China and other parts of Asia.


Sucks that a piece of architectual history must suffer. Hope it at least gets documented well.