Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Thailand's repatriation of illegal
immigrants just a legal issue
If you haven’t read the topic reading Vol.1187
issued on July 12, please read it first. It’ll tell you what happened to about
100 Uighurs who fled to Thailand from China. They are Turkic Muslims who lived
in Xinjiang where 45% of the population is native Uighurs. Despite the
criticism from the world, Thailand handed them to China’s authority.
Now, this Chinadaily article shows the
photos of those deported Uighurs whose faces were all covered. Each of them
looks escorted by two masked officers side by side as if they were serious
convicts or militants.
Yes. That’s how China is going to treat
those refugees. The news article harshly criticizes foreign media and activists
and sternly insists that many of those repatriated by Thailand are extremists
who want to become "jihad fighters" in the war-torn areas of the
Middle East or even suspects of terrorist crimes in China. The article also
states that those who have committed terrorist crimes will be brought to
justice and others will be educated and resettled.
Read this article and think of what justice,
reeducation and resettlement mean to those people in China.
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