Wednesday, December 23, 2009

China's £750m aid 'not linked' to Cambodia's Uighur deportations

23 December 2009
By Cara Anna and Ben Blanchard
News Scotsman

BEIJING has denied that £750 million in aid it gave to Cambodia was linked to the south-east Asian nation's deportation of 20 Muslims who had sought asylum there after fleeing ethnic violence in China's far west.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman yesterday insisted the aid package to Cambodia had "no strings attached".
Beijing has accused the Muslim Uighurs of being involved in ethnic rioting in July that pitted the minority group against the majority Han Chinese.
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