re:China Moves to Calm Restive Xinjiang Region

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:42 AM
Subject: re:China Moves to Calm Restive Xinjiang Region
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

    Deportation and dispersion is an ancient stratagem to destroy a conquered People. Sennacherib's Assyrians visited it on the ten lost tribes of Israel in the 8th century b.c.e. But in the modern world, this is not only a violation of self-determination of Peoples. What more basic right can a People have than to live among one's own? It is an embrace of barbarism. If in Xi Jinping's mind the Uighur are not Chinese, it is for him to give them autonomy, whether inside China or outside.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/world/asia/chinas-leader-lays-out-plan-to-pacify-restive-region.html?_r=0