美联社，南韩背景的中国地下基督教会帮助XJ暴乱分子出逃柬埔寨

funfuny

http://www.google.com/hostednews ... AtPr8ZxnpAD9CCK4M80

Uighurs using missionary railway to flee China

By ISOLDA MORILLO and CARA ANNA (AP) – 2 days ago

BEIJING — An underground network of Christian missionaries that usually
works with North Korean refugees says it has helped smuggle nearly two dozen
Muslim Uighurs out of China following last summer's deadly ethnic violence
and the subsequent government crackdown.

It's the first time the Christian interfaith network has worked with a group
of Uighurs, and it won't be the last, with more currently using the so-
called underground railway to make their way out of the country and requests
for assistance surging into the hundreds, missionaries said.

Long-simmering tensions between Turkic Uighurs and China's Han majority have
increased since July's riots in the western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese
government says the violence left nearly 200 people, mostly Han, dead.

A Chinese court sentenced three Uighurs to death Friday for their actions
during the rioting, bringing to 17 the number of death sentences handed down
over the violence. Overseas Uighur groups say Uighurs have been rounded up
in mass detentions since the riots.

Some have turned to the "railway" for help, and one Macau-based missionary
who is part of the network said they now have daily contact with major
Uighur exile groups.

The network of sympathetic Chinese Christians shelter and guide people,
usually North Koreans, as they cross China on their way to UN refugee
offices abroad to seek asylum.

The first group of 22 Uighurs, who've been described by exile groups as
witnesses to the rioting, made their way through China and Vietnam before
arriving over the past few weeks in the Cambodian capital, where they have
made contact with the UN refugee office and applied for political asylum.

However, they live in fear of being picked up and returned to China, which
has close ties with Cambodia, Uighur groups said.

"China has a very big influence in Cambodia. So their life is in risk, I
would say," said Ilshat Hassan, the U.S.-based director of interior affairs
for the World Uyghur Congress.

A spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry asked that questions about the 22
Uighurs be sent in a fax, and offered no immediate response Friday. The
Public Security Bureau in Xinjiang did not immediately respond to a faxed
request.

Hassan said the group is the first large one to leave China after the riots.
Two other Uighurs were arrested in Vietnam, he said, and he lost contact
with another group of four.

A spokesman for Cambodia's Ministry of the Interior, Pol. Lt. Gen. Khieu
Sopheak, said Friday that at least 16 Uighurs are staying at the office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Phnom Penh. The office
is the closest UNHCR office to China in Southeast Asia.

UNHCR's spokeswoman for Asia, Kitty McKinsey, said she could not discuss the
case. "It's our policy everywhere in the world never to speak about
individual asylum seekers or refugees," she said.

Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said the government would
consider carefully any repatriation request from China. He said Cambodia has
the right to deny such a request if the people are considered political
asylum seekers.

"But if they are purely criminal people and there is a request, we may
deport them," he said.

It was unclear what role, if any, the 22 Uighurs played in the rioting. They
could not be reached for comment Friday.

"They may have been involved in the protest July 5, but it is not clear at
the moment," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress.

Radio Free Asia reported Friday that two of the Uighurs told the UNHCR they
watched the July violence unfold. One said he feared retribution for taking
photos.

Hassan said the Uighurs still have photos of the riots and government
response, but there were no immediate plans to make them public. "We want to
get them first to a safe place," he said.

Overseas Uighur groups have been making more and more requests to use the
railway, said the Rev. Marcus Ramsey of the Macau Interfaith Network, whose
group collaborates with other missionary groups and helped the 22 Uighurs
leave China.

Another Macau-based missionary, who didn't want to give his name because of
concerns about official retribution, said the network had a few requests for
help from Europe-based Uighur Christians before the July violence, but
requests have since surged.

He dismissed the idea of possible tensions between the Muslim Uighurs and
the Christian Chinese who help them cross China.

"This is what it means when they ask, 'What would Jesus do?'" he said.

Hassan did not want to talk about any involvement with the missionary
network, saying only "some locals from the China side helped."

Now, however, China has tightened border controls and passing through
Vietnam is no longer possible, he said.

The missionaries sounded more optimistic. "The first group took two months,"
the Macau-based missionary said, "but some things can be streamlined next
year."

Associated Press Writers Sopheng Cheang in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Jocelyn
Gecker in Bangkok contributed to this report.

☆★☆★☆

North Korean

badbadboy

North Korean
☆★☆★☆ 发表于 2009-12-7 21:53

Christian missionaries that usually works with North Korean refugees

alexwxx

知道下一步要对付谁了吧？
不过这些地下教会危害甚大，地域影响范围更大，是到了整治的时候了

morion

信什么破教，地下教会都得喀嚓