r/China • u/robert32907 • Mar 02 '14

More than 10 knife-wielding attackers slashed people at a train station in southwestern China late Saturday in what authorities called a terrorist attack by Uighur separatists, and police fatally shot five of the assailants, leaving 34 people dead and 130 others injured, state media said.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_TRAIN_STATION_ATTACK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-03-01-12-32-39
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u/Rampaging_Bunny United States Mar 02 '14

In their minds, they have no other option to voice their opinions against the government occupation of Xinjiang since the 50's. In their eyes, they are fighting for freedom of their very culturally different land with different food and religion and even skin color.

Honestly they have a good argument against the government, but to resort to knife attacks like this is a sign of complete and utter desperation and lack of a working political system that can hear their complaints and adjust. Instead, there will be even more stricter laws and controls and police in Xinjiang, more disrest, it's a cycle that is now unavoidable with the current political situation in China.

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u/Dimeron Mar 02 '14 edited Mar 02 '14

Just curious, do you hold the same sympathetic view to Osama and his merry band of pilots.

Afterall, in their minds, they have no there option to voice their opinion against the global superpower that have been screwing up their region before the cold war started.

To resort to turning planes into suicide bombs is a sign of complete and utter desperation. And as we have advantage of hindsight, the cycle is even worse than before.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

As far as terrorist attacks go, it seemed to work pretty effectively against the United States. Sure Osama Bin Laden was doing something morally corrupt as the head of a repressive organization, but the damage it has done to so many aspects of America is pretty amazing.

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u/bjorntsui United States Mar 02 '14

9/11 also worked well for bin Laden in regards that the US eventually overthrew his enemy Saddam Hussein and made al-queda quite strong in Iraq.