China holds mass sentencing of 55 people at football stadium

[t_co]

China holds mass sentencing of 55 people at football stadium---Los Angeles Times

In a spectacle designed to show their resolve against terrorism, Chinese authorities held a public sentencing in a football stadium in the northwestern Xinjiang region of 55 people convicted of violent crimes..

More than 7,000 people watched from the stands in Yili prefecture during Tuesday's sentencing, and videos were distributed by police Wednesday to Chinese media. It was an unusually public display in a country where court proceedings are normally closed to the public.

The sentencing follows the car bombing last week in the northwestern city of Urumqi in which 43 people died, the deadliest attack in China in nearly five years.

From the names of the defendants provided by authorities, they appeared to be ethnic Uighurs. Uighurs are a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking people from northwestern China.

Li Minghui, the deputy secretary of the local Communist Party, was quoted by the New China News Agency predicting that religious extremists and separatists would soon become "as unpopular as rats crossing the street."

The defendants were convicted of crimes that included homicide, membership in terrorist organizations, harboring criminals and secession, which in China refers to ethnic minorities coveting their own state.

Details of the crimes were released in only one case: the murder in April 2013 of a family of four, including a 3-year-old child, who were killed with hatchets and knives in their rented apartment. The family had recently moved from central China, and the implication was that they were killed because they were ethnic Han, the Chinese majority.

The three men convicted of the murder were given death sentences, according to state media.

China is on high alert after a cluster of bombings and stabbings of increasing sophistication and lethality. In last week's attack, two SUVs crashed through a barricade into a crowded pedestrian market while their occupants hurled bombs through the car windows.

Last month, passengers at the Urumqi train station were attacked with knives and bombs on the day that President Xi Jinping was visiting the region.

Jacob Zenn, an analyst with the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation, said terrorism might come to dominate Xi's leadership in much the same way it did for President George W. Bush.

"Terrorism might come to mark the first five years of Xi Jinping's term, and it's not an easy battle to win because you are judged," Zenn said. "Every attack is a loss for you. It's going to be hard to be foolproof on this.''

More than 200 people have been arrested in Xinjiang in recent weeks. On Tuesday, local authorities said they had busted a bomb-making gang from Hotan in the Xinjiang region and confiscated 1.8 tons of explosives.

Chinese authorities said the plotters had been inspired and instructed by Islamic militant videos.

China doesn't ---- around with terrorists.

 

[Voldemort]

What is this? A game? Letting public watch executions? Barbaric...

 

[Srinivas_K]

Taliban also used to do that when they rules Afghanistan.

 

[fyodor]

India took 12 years to execute one terrorist(Afzal guru). China took 12 days to execute 55 terrorists. LOL!

 

[amoy]

India took 12 years to execute one terrorist(Afzal guru). China took 12 days to execute 55 terrorists. LOL!

Nah to correct u all - that was a "public sentencing" not execution!

basically in an attempt to intimidate Jihadist wannabes.

yet would it be effective? those terrorists yearn for martyrdom where 72 beauties are awaiting them!

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[fyodor]

Nah to correct u all - that was a "public sentencing" not execution!

basically in an attempt to intimidate Jihadist wannabes.

yet would it be effective? those terrorists yearn for martyrdom where 72 beauties are awaiting them!

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that's the only way to deal with jihadis....the thing is they don't care about our law,constitution or civilization. They want to bring 7th century world in 21st century. The only solution for them is to: annihilate them.

 

[rock127]

Nah to correct u all - that was a "public sentencing" not execution!

basically in an attempt to intimidate Jihadist wannabes.

yet would it be effective? those terrorists yearn for martyrdom where 72 beauties are awaiting them!

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So you are going to sit at home and kill mosquitos but not go to the dirty pond where millions of those mosquitos are having breeding ground?

Or you are waiting for a 9/11 type massive attack on Chinese soil to start a major operation?

 

[t_co]

So you are going to sit at home and kill mosquitos but not go to the dirty pond where millions of those mosquitos are having breeding ground?

Or you are waiting for a 9/11 type massive attack on Chinese soil to start a major operation?

The proper way to treat a dirty pond of mosquitos is to drain it and clean it up, not invade it. But when they're in your own home, you swat them down without mercy.

 

[rock127]

The proper way to treat a dirty pond of mosquitos is to drain it and clean it up, not invade it. But when they're in your own home, you swat them down without mercy.

Can you acknowledge where is that dirty pond where terrorists are coming out and spreading all over the world?

Is it China?

 

[tarunraju]

Nah to correct u all - that was a "public sentencing" not execution!

basically in an attempt to intimidate Jihadist wannabes.

yet would it be effective? those terrorists yearn for martyrdom where 72 beauties are awaiting them!

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They won't go to heaven if their bodies are "impure." Shoot them down with bullets dipped in pork / pig blood. Game over. Their entire struggle toward an imaginary cloud palace will have gone waste.


Also a good deterrent. :thumb:

 

[t_co]

They won't go to heaven if their bodies are "impure." Shoot them down with bullets dipped in pork / pig blood. Game over. Their entire struggle toward an imaginary cloud palace will have gone waste.


Also a good deterrent. :thumb:

Even simpler than that. Treat terrorism as a mental illness. If they join a terror cell, don't just jail them - put them in a mental ward with psychotics, violent schizophrenics, and manic depressives. Treat them with force feeding of psychotropic drugs, electroshock, hydro "therapy", and lobotomies. Invoice their families for the psychiatric treatment at Western European or North American hourly rates, and confiscate their family property or imprison their relatives if they fail to pay said debts.

 

[Illusive]

They won't go to heaven if their bodies are "impure." Shoot them down with bullets dipped in pork / pig blood. Game over. Their entire struggle toward an imaginary cloud palace will have gone waste.


Also a good deterrent. :thumb:

That can actually work, knowing that the brainwashed douche bags want to go to heaven for the 72 virgins, this might prove to be a deterrent. Although in India, it would be called unsecular to do so

 

[abhi_the _gr8_maratha]

China is doing the same that I have imagined from them

 

[tarunraju]

That can actually work, knowing that the brainwashed douche bags want to go to heaven for the 72 virgins, this might prove to be a deterrent. Although in India, it would be called unsecular to do so

I thought "everyone" here in India (including the thekedars of secularism) agreed that terrorism has no religion? Then how does it matter how they're dealt with?

Anyways, I'm giving the Chinese ideas. They don't have pointless "secular/lack-thereof" baggage.