http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/world/asia/24briefs-Xinjiang.html?_r=1&ref=asia
China over the years that it has been in existence has amassed a large amount of territory, and with this territory came a wide variety of different ethnic groups. One of the ethnic minorities living in China are the Uighurs, the majority population in Kashgar. Apparently in Xinjiang seven people, all of Uighur origin, were convicted of murder and robbery. Their goal was to gain enough money to support their terrorist group. Those who were murdered were mostly Han Chinese migrant workers. Almost two dozen people were snetenced to death for their participation in the crime, three were given life in prison, and others simply dissapeared. The Chinese government has long tried to produce a better image of itself, especially after the Tiananmen disaster; however, it seems progress will be slow.
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i feel that the death penalty is a fair punishment for their crimes. Yes china is trying to get a better image but at the same time they can not appear to be soft. Those men deserved the death penalty i do not think any less of china for sentencing those people to death.
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