“We are beckoned to see the world through a one-way mirror, as if we are threatened and innocent and the rest of humanity is threatening, or wretched, or expendable. Our memory is struggling to rescue the truth that human rights were not handed down as privileges from a parliament, or a boardroom, or an institution, but that peace is only possible with justice and with information that gives us the power to act justly.”
― John Pilger

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

China sentences 55 people in mass Xinjiang trial

BBC - MAY 28, 2014

The defendants, who appeared to be from the region's Muslim Uighur community, were presented to a stadium holding about 7,000 spectators.
Three of the prisoners were sentenced to death.
Chinese officials have blamed militant Uighur groups for a growing number of violent attacks across the country.
Photos from the open-air trial showed police trucks parked near a running track. Prisoners wearing orange vests stood in the back of the vehicles, surrounded by armed guards, their heads bowed.

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