Rebiya's lies exposed: Commentary

(People's Daily Online)
Updated: 2009-07-13 18:25

Since the July 5 riot in Urumqi, overseas separatist forces, led by Rebiya Kadeer, head of the World Uyghur Congress, has spread lies and shown numerous pieces of falsified "evidence" to distort the truth. However, things have not turned out as they wished. Their lies have been exposed one after another while their "evidence" has been disclosed to be falsified.

Following the July 5 riot in Urumqi, Rebiya announced various exaggerated death tolls to the media. Reporters from media agencies including the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post refuted Rebiya's figures using the facts that they had gathered in their reports. The Daily Telegraph, UK, reported on July 8 that Rebiya had claimed to the Wall Street Journal that a large number of Uygurs died in Urumqi and Kashi, but reporters who obtained permission to freely interview Uygurs in Urumqi found this groundless. The World Uyghur Congress held a press conference in Munich, Germany, on July 8, claiming that more than 800 Uygurs died, which was refuted by on site participants showing contradictory photos.

To prove that "suppression" took place in Urumqi, Rebiya provided Al Jazeera Television a piece of evidence, which was found to be a photo of Hubei police handling a mass incident in June this year. The Uyghur American Association also provided photos of a car accident that had occurred in Hangzhou in May as evidence of the July 5 riot in Urumqi to "Eastern Turkestan" activists who were creating a disturbance in front of the Chinese embassy in Turkey. The hoax was exposed by netizens.

By repeatedly fabricating clumsy lies, overseas separatist forces plan to play the following tricks:

Firstly, they aim to cover up their responsibility in instigating and manipulating the July 5 riot in Urumqi and embellish their violent crimes as "peaceful demonstrations." Secondly, they aim to distort the truth and smear China's ethnic minority policies, destroy solidarity among ethnic groups and create hatred in order to continue instigating unrest. Thirdly, they play the "sadness card" by painting violent criminals as "disadvantaged groups" and "peaceful protesters" to attract attention from the international community and creating a hoax to get sympathy and support.

However, when confronted with the facts, lies were quickly exposed, melting like ice under the burning sun. Now at their wits' end, "Rebiya's gang" can only continue to produce new lies to cover the old ones. They are mired in a deep hole. Aside from mockery from people around the globe, they have allowed the world to clearly see the "Eastern Turkestan" separatist forces' shameful conduct of distorting facts and spreading lies.

Source: People's Daily Online