China has Sentenced 20 People in the Location if Xinjiang Due to Terrorist Activities By: Nina Bharadwaj

     Twenty people have been sentenced for terrorist activities, on Tuesday, reported a spokesperson at the Kashagar prefecture Intermediate People's court. This happened in northwest China in the Xinjiang Autonomous region. Overall, they have been given sentences that range from five years in prison to their whole life in prison in five individual cases in Kashgar and Bayingol prefectures.
     This case was reported in the media in China. It includes semi-official website Yaxin in Xinjiang. Many people believe these charged people to be Uighurs because of the ancestory of their names. Uighurs are a muslim population that is minor in China. Although, the media in China did not tell anyone what the ethnicities or genders of these people are.
     This northwestern province in China has been a huge scene with so much fighting, conflict, and unrest. Xinjiang was even targeted as the province with the worst amount of violence in decades in the month of July 2009. In this month of tragedy, there were many different riots between Uigurs and Han Chinese. These awful riots left around 200 people dead and about 1,700 people severely injured in the capital, Urumqi. According to Xinhua, riots last year left an estimation of 12 people dead in Kashgar.
     These twenty suspects were accused in court, on Tuesday, for willingly spreading ideas of terrorism and religious extremism. They also happened to be participating in terrorist organizations. They caused incidents to come about and they also caused separatism, according to the state media. To pull off these crimes, they used the internet, digital devices, as well as their phones.
     It is said that these suspects were linked to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and Islamic movement of Uzbekistan, which are called terrorist groups by the government in China.
Analysis: The authors of this article, the CNN staff wrote this article to inform us about what has been happening conflict wise, in China, specifically in Xinjiang. Before reading this article, I didn't know much about the subject, so it is hard for me to take in all at once. There was no sense of bias in the article, as the author was just stating facts. There were absolutely no quotes, just evidence that has been proven. The main idea of this article is that courts, in China, Xinjiang, have sentenced twenty people for terrorist activities. They could be in prison for five years or for their whole life, as there are five separate cases. There has been so much conflict in China, and riots last year left 12 people dead in Kashgar.
I hate reading articles about terrorism because I hate hearing about conflict between people or countries. I wish we could all get along, but that will never happen. I am happy that these twenty people have been sentenced to prison, even though we don't know how long each of them will be there, because they have been doing awful things, and they need harsh consequences for their bad actions. I wish China didn't have to be a place of so much conflict. After hearing about the riots in July 2009, I was really sad because so many people died. I wish people could peacefully protest or use nonviolent resistant to have people see it there way because then so many people wouldn't have to die.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/28/world/asia/china-xinjiang-separatists/index.html