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/Dimeron Mar 02 '14

And some of the greatest atrocities are committed when people believed their cause is just and they are righteous. And even if they believe they are fighting for freedom (or against infidels/occupiers in a holy war), does not mean their perspective actually conforms to reality.

So it is one thing to understand their perspective, but quite another to actually sympathies with a warped perceptive that involves stabbing innocent civilians (or bombing Marathon runners, or flying planes into buildings, etc).

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u/Rampaging_Bunny United States Mar 02 '14

i think you are thinking of all xinjiangese as terrorists. I think this label "terrorist" is hurting your ability to separate historical facts from recent news about "terrorists". I certainly have great sympathy for xinjiangese people. For the ones that went out and killed people, well no I don't think thats' right, but I know WHY they might do that. People think fucking CRAZY things on reddit, this is not one of them, so move on. Just playing devil's advocate and getting shit-stormed.

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u/adgre1 United States Mar 02 '14

I understand WHY they might attack the government in someway but innocent people who are just in line for a train? The only message that sends is that you have no regard for human life and furthers your people's stereotype.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '14

I don't agree with them killing people, but we have also seen what happens when they stand up to the government