China demands Guantanamo Uighurs

[lovuian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4753559.stm

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said the "suspects should be sent to China as soon as possible".

The five were among a group of about 20 ethnic Uighurs held at the military camp in Cuba.

The Uighurs are a minority Muslim group, some of whom want an independent state in Xinjiang, western China.

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Ok I'm confused
We locked them up because they were terrorists and then we let them go to Albania so they wouldn't be persecuted in China.... something is so suspicious here???

[the observationist]

1. Maybe Albania was the only Muslim country that would take

them. China would kill them and if these guys are innocent China is the last place they should be.

[lovuian]

2. But why lock them up in Guatanomo just to let them go???

Sounds very double agenty doesn't it....

[the observationist]

3. I have a feeling that a lot of innocent people were swept

up and sent to Guantanamo and other prisons by mistake. Our military and president were in such a hurry to take over the middle east that they didn't really care if they arrested the right people. These guys were probably some of those innocent people that got screwed. This is just my opinion.

[Igel]

4. It's like police, in similar settings.

You round up suspects. Then you sort them out. Some you set free; others you decide are guilty, but you can't prove it; others you think you can prove are guilty. Sometimes, however, just being rounded up taints the person in the eyes of his peers. (And the group that comes to mind are the Russian POWs held in German concentration camps in WWII: they were tainted, unreliable--who knows if they became crypto-capitalists or western agents?--and when they were repatriated Stalin sent them straight into exile in Siberia.)

Police set the first two groups free; DOD sets only the first group free, by and large. Of course, the boundaries between the three groups are fuzzy.

These Uighurs were in the first group. They were determined to be in that group a couple of years ago. There was much scepticism here because the Uighurs did not want to go home; of course, some said, they prefer Guantanamo ... right (insert drippy sarcasm intonation here). In this case, yes, they didn't want to go home.

Albania may have been the only Muslim country that would both take them and to which they were willing to be sent.