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PART OF THE 2000-2001 TRIP story
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NOTE - added 6th July 2009 - about the recent trouble in Xinjiang :
When I travelled in 2001, there was no such trouble and locals both Uighur and Han Chinese were very kind and
welcoming. Uighur people I met told me about their feelings regarding jobs (they have more difficulties getting a
job than Han chinese people) and regarding repression (stating that just a week before, some Uighur protesters were
taken to the desert and shot). The Chinese government is quick to call terrorists a few violent people and never
asks itself is : what drives people to violence ? The Chinese government manipulates the news : they don't say
the truth about who starts the violence : is it the police shooting a crowd may be ? If the government would listen
to the Uighur people and treat them equally, surely the relations between both communities would be better.
Dunhuang : sand-dune on the fringes of the oasis
Mosque in Turpan : the historical capital of the Uighurs, a turkish speaking, muslim people
Turpan : street life
The afghan style minaret near Turpan
Melons and pasteques at the market in Kashgar
Market day in Kashgar : the "parking
lot"
Making of nan-bread
Karakul Lake (alt. 3600 m) in the Pamir
(my favorite view of the whole trip)
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