China arrests rise in restive Xinjiang
By Ben Blanchard | REUTERS
January 20, 2006
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities arrested more than 18,000 people for national security reasons in the mainly Muslim western region of Xinjiang last year, a newspaper said on Friday, which a dissident described as a rise of a quarter.
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This is not correct. The original Chinese article says that this is the total number of people arrested in XUAR for *all crimes*, and this is of course not limited to Uyghurs. Whoever wrote this article either does not read Chinese well or does not do their own research. Human rights situation for Uyghurs in China is very bad, but we should deal only with facts and not errors. Especially if you want to know the "truth about China."
Here is the link to the original article, for those of you who read Chinese.
http://www.xjrb.com.cn/news/xinjiang/85235.shtml
It's abuot the Chinese characters"中国真像”。It should be "中国真相” if you want to express the meaning of "truth about China".