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Posts published in “Day: September 15, 2017

China used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending

By Simon Denyer in The Washington Post, Sept 14, 2017 at 5.27 pm China’s organ-transplant system was once a cause of international scorn and outrage, as doctors harvested organs from prisoners condemned to death by criminal courts and transplanted them into patients who often paid dearly for the privilege. After years of denials, China now acknowledges that history and has declared that the practice no longer occurs — largely thanks to the perseverance of a…

China’s new campaign to instill official historical narrative in Xinjiang

by Nectar Gan in South China Morning Post, Sept 14, 2017 at 10:41pm China’s far western Xinjiang is set to roll out an ideological campaign to instill the official Communist Party narrative of the region’s history in its officials, religious leaders and the masses. Yu Zhengsheng, the party’s fourth-ranking official who is in charge of religion and ethnic minorities, presided at a high-level meeting in Beijing this week to address “several historical issues” regarding the…

Official urges Xinjiang to reject wrong influences

report in Global Times, Sept 15, 2017 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region will develop better if it rids itself of misleading historical, cultural, ethnic and religious thoughts, China’s top political adviser said at a seminar. Clearing out those negative thoughts will build the ideological and political basis for a legal and united Xinjiang, Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee said at a two-day meeting on Xinjiang, which concluded on Wednesday…

3 Bangladeshi brothers held in India for ‘ABT link’

by Pallab Bhattacharya in The Daily Star, Sept 15, 2017 Three Bangladeshi brothers, suspected to have links with militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team, have been arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a senior police official said yesterday. The trio — identified as Mohammad Imran, Rajiuddin and Mohammad Firdaus — were arrested in Lucknow, the state’s capital city, when they were about to board Howrah-Amritsar Express train on Wednesday afternoon,…

The Muslim Militant at the Heart of Myanmar’s Rohingya Exodus

By James Hookway in the Wall St Journal, Sept 13, 2017 at 5.41pm ET YANGON, Myanmar—Myanmar’s government calls the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army “extremist militant terrorists.” The group, known as ARSA, and its founder, Ata Ullah, say it is defending Muslim Rohingya, highlighting decades of repression they have endured in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where most live along the border with Bangladesh. The conflict is drawing the attention of foreign extremists. Al Qaeda’s central leadership urged Muslims…

B’desh: Three detained for ‘forcing’ Buddhist monk to speak against Myanmar, Suu Kyi

Report in bdnews24.com, Sept 15, 2017 Benapole: Police have detained three people on charges of forcing a Buddhist monk to speak over the Rohingya issue, recording his statement and circulating the video on social media at Benapole border in Jessore. The three detainees are Reazul Islam Mandal, Amin Hossain and Toufique Ahmed. Benapole Police Station Sub-Inspector Sharif Habibur Rahman said the trio stopped the Buddhist monk on his way home to Chittagong from India on…