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奧運聖火將傳到新疆 中國加強鎮壓異議份子
法新社╱楊一峰 2008-06-15 18:05
（法新社新疆喀布市十五日電）新疆居民和流亡人士表示，在奧運聖火預計下週傳到新疆之際，中國加緊控制新疆地區回教徒，以防範任何破壞聖火傳遞行動。
以德國為基地的世界維吾爾大會發言人瑞西特說，中國採取的步驟包括在新疆拘留數千名，迫使回教宗教官員進行「政治教育」，以「保護」奧運。
維吾爾族人士告訴法新社，在北京奧運聖火預計傳到新疆之際，當局也沒收一些回教人士的護照。
一名二十多歲受過大學教育的維吾爾族女性，她的護照今年稍早被警察收走。她說：「他們懼怕人們可能到國外旅行，並參加一些反對奧運活動。」
她被迫放棄到國外唸研究所的計劃。法新社為了保護這名女性免於受到警方報復，不透露她的姓名。
法新社記者今天打電話到新疆省會烏魯木齊，警察和省府官員都沒有接聽電話。
北京說，它正面臨新疆回教分離份子的恐怖威脅。中國曾說，最近幾個月，它破獲了幾起以新疆為基地的恐怖陰謀，其中包括一些特別針對八月八日至二十四日舉行的北京奧運。
維吾爾人駁斥這種說法，認為這是中國進行數十年政治迫害與消滅維吾爾族文化政策的政治掩飾。
流亡團體表示，北京奧運之前，已有數千名維吾爾人遭拘捕。
北京奧運組織委員會最近說，奧運聖火將於六月十七日至十九日在新疆傳遞，比原來預定時間提早一週。奧運聖火原來預定在省會烏魯木齊，喀布市和其他兩個城市傳遞。
不過今年三月西藏發生暴亂，聖火傳遞成為敏感議題之際，奧運官員上週未向法新社透露有關聖火傳遞的最新計劃。
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China clampdown for Olympic torch in Xinjiang: residents, exiles
by Dan Martin
Sun Jun 15, 1:39 AM ET
KASHGAR, China (AFP) - China has tightened controls on Muslims in its remote west ahead of the Olympic torch's arrival next week to thwart any actions aimed at disrupting the relay, residents and exiles said.
The measures include detaining thousands in the Xinjiang region and forcing Muslim religious officials to undergo "political education" on "protecting" the Olympics, said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress.
With the Beijing Olympic torch expected in Xinjiang on its nationwide tour, authorities have also confiscated the passports of some Muslims, Uighurs told AFP.
"They are afraid people might travel abroad and join some sort of plot against the Olympics," said a college-educated Uighur woman in her twenties, whose passport was taken by police here earlier this year.
The woman, whose name was withheld by AFP to protect her from police reprisals, was forced to cancel plans to attend graduate school overseas.
Calls to police and government officials in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi went unanswered at the weekend.
Beijing says it faces a separatist Muslim terror threat in Xinjiang, a vast region of deserts and stunning mountain ranges which is home to more than eight million Uighurs, a Central Asian people who have long chafed under Chinese control.
In recent months China has said several Xinjiang-based terror plots have been smashed, including some specifically aimed at the August 8-24 Olympics.
Uighurs dismiss such claims as political cover for what they call decades of repression and policies aimed at extinguishing their culture.
Exile groups say thousands of Uighurs have been rounded up in the run-up to the Olympics.
"(The crackdown) is intended to prevent Uighurs from telling foreign reporters and visitors the truth of their suffering," Rebiya Kadeer, head of the Uighur American Association, told AFP last month.
Beijing Olympic organisers recently said the sensitive Xinjiang torch leg would take place June 17-19, a week earlier than planned. It originally was to transit the capital Urumqi, Kashgar, and two other cities.
However, Olympic officials last week would not disclose up-to-date plans to AFP amid confusion surrounding sensitive relay legs following violent unrest in Tibet in March that laid bare simmering discontent in China's minority regions.
A stage was set up near Kashgar's main mosque, apparently for torch ceremonies, but residents said there had been no new announcement on when the flame would arrive.
China has blamed the confusion on schedule changes caused by the May 12 Sichuan earthquake.
Raxit said Muslims in Kashgar have also been ordered to avoid any contact with foreigners, report any overseas journalists operating in the area and sign pledges denouncing separatism and supporting Beijing.
Thousands of Muslims who were not residents of Kashgar and Urumqi also had been forced to leave those cities, he said.
"The Chinese Communists have enslaved the Uighurs politically. The Uighurs have lost all rights," he told AFP.
Activity in Kashgar, an oasis city on the ancient Silk Road, appeared normal at the weekend, with skull-capped Muslim men quietly streaming in and out of the Id Kah mosque. There was no obvious police presence.
Several Uighurs told AFP they welcomed the torch and disputed suggestions anyone would try to disrupt it.
"The Olympic torch has never been to our city. We are very proud," said a Kashgar taxi driver named Yusup.
The crackdown triggered an attack with rocks and petrol bombs by Uighurs on a police station in the town of Sangong in late May, Raxit said previously.
Local police confirmed the attack when contacted by AFP, but refused further comment.
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