Uyghur

Here are some things I ate today. The larger photo is from this Uyghur restaurant my family always goes to. I have decided that Uyghur food is a gift from heaven. I always end up eating too much when I go there. Thinking about the poor conditions that the Uyghur people live in in China makes my heart break. Apparently, an UN Human Rights person has made an announcement about the Chinese people mistreating the Uyghurs lately which makes me happy that the problems are being uncovered. But too much is still being hidden. Sure we sometimes get to read how Uyghurs are getting murdered by the police for being "agents" and whatnot on the news, but there is much more to that. Since China is such an oppressing country, we - every other country - don't really get to see what's going on inside the borders. The people living in China don't have Facebook, Twitter or Google. GOOGLE!! The government is too scared that their people might see how other people are living and realize they're being mistreated and, god-forbid (!!!), go against them. It's funny how much this situation resembles The Hunger Games. Anyway, Uyghur food is amazing and I could keep talking about how mistreated they are, or you could read for yourself.

"As many as 700 persons may have been killed in political violence that rocked northwestern China’s Xinjiang region from 2013-2014, with ethnic Uyghurs three times as likely as Han Chinese to have lost their lives in clashes, according to a report released Tuesday by the Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP).

Chinese state-controlled media reported less than a third of the clashes that took place in the reporting period, and described more than two-thirds of the 37 incidents it did report on as “terrorist” events, UHRP said in its report.

“Chinese state media underreporting of violence attempts to maintain the fiction that [Beijing’s] policies in the region are working,” UHRP director Alim Seytoff said in a statement Tuesday.

“However, China also wants to convince the international community that it faces an ‘overseas inspired terror threat’ to deflect criticism for its domestic repressive policies,” Seytoff said. Seytoff is a former employee of Radio Free Asia.
(Please please please read the whole story below.)
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/violence-03032015142042.html

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/shooting-03132015152239.html

Good news: http://t.co/mhF6XSWZ55
Not so good news: http://t.co/iI6lOWPyMs
(Both take place in the same day.)

The other photo is the healthy snack I had just before finishing a pack of Lays and gobbling down a cheesecake flavored ice cream. Obviously being healthy is not my forte.

Now I need to start my mastering physics homework (pls kill me).

Update: It is my mom's birthday today.