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70204
Mon, 07/13/2009 - 19:58
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FPI URGES OIC, UN TO ACT ON XINJIANG UNREST
Jakarta, July 13 (ANTARA) - The Islam Defenders' Front (FPI) staged a rally outside the Chinese embassy here on Monday urging the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and UN to take prompt action over the ethnic Uighur unrest in China's Xinjiang province.
"The FPI calls on the OIC and UN to help the Uighurs defend their right of self-determination," FPI Secretary General KH Ahmad Sobri Lubis said.
In addition, the FPI also urged the world bodies to ensure the Uighur people's freedom to carry out their religious rites.
If the OIC and the United Nations did not care about Uighurs' freedom, FPI members were ready to go to Xinjiang in massive number, he said.
He said the FPI condemned the violence and urged the Chinese government to put an immediate halt to it.
Besides the FPI, 20 other Islamic mass organizations also staged rallies outside the Chinese embassy on Monday.
In the tightly-guarded rallies, the demonstrators unfurled banners deploring the Chinese government's repressive measures in Xinjiang.
Almost half of Xinjiang's 20 million people are Muslim Uighurs, but they have long complained that Han Chinese were reaping most of the benefits of official investment and subsidies.
Violence erupted last week in Uruqmi, capital of Xinjiang.
The official Xinhua news agency quoting the regional government reported last Saturday the death toll from violence in Urumqi had risen to 184.
Indonesian Ambassador to China Sudrajat said on Sunday the Indonesian government would not interfere in the events in Uruqmi.
"What is happening in Xinjiang is China's internal affair. We respect China's sovereignty over the region and will not meddle in the problem," he said.***
"The FPI calls on the OIC and UN to help the Uighurs defend their right of self-determination," FPI Secretary General KH Ahmad Sobri Lubis said.
In addition, the FPI also urged the world bodies to ensure the Uighur people's freedom to carry out their religious rites.
If the OIC and the United Nations did not care about Uighurs' freedom, FPI members were ready to go to Xinjiang in massive number, he said.
He said the FPI condemned the violence and urged the Chinese government to put an immediate halt to it.
Besides the FPI, 20 other Islamic mass organizations also staged rallies outside the Chinese embassy on Monday.
In the tightly-guarded rallies, the demonstrators unfurled banners deploring the Chinese government's repressive measures in Xinjiang.
Almost half of Xinjiang's 20 million people are Muslim Uighurs, but they have long complained that Han Chinese were reaping most of the benefits of official investment and subsidies.
Violence erupted last week in Uruqmi, capital of Xinjiang.
The official Xinhua news agency quoting the regional government reported last Saturday the death toll from violence in Urumqi had risen to 184.
Indonesian Ambassador to China Sudrajat said on Sunday the Indonesian government would not interfere in the events in Uruqmi.
"What is happening in Xinjiang is China's internal affair. We respect China's sovereignty over the region and will not meddle in the problem," he said.***
