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Outside of PBHA, Tracy T. Han ’11 and Matthew C. Mulroy ’12 have initiated their own community service J-term project. They are currently organizing a group to travel to the Dominican Republic to work in a small community on water sustainability in partnership with DR Water and the Harvard Project for Sustainable Development...
Tibetan resentment against Chinese rule has been fueled by religious restrictions and competition for resources with migrants from the Han Chinese majority. Similar grievances fed ethnic rioting this year in the neighboring heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang that left nearly 200 dead...
...Chinese government did not hesitate to send tanks against its own people in 1989, and we have seen what the government can do against the Tibetans and the Uighurs when they dare rise up against the discrimination they are subjected to and demand greater autonomy. Its policies of Han migration are effectively leading to cultural colonization and the suppression of other minorities. China has become an economic powerhouse, but one result is glaring inequalities between billionaires on one side and the millions of people below the poverty level. Maybe another revolution is brewing. Jean-Louis Desplat, Saint-Lo, France...
...after the worst bout of interethnic violence in years had rocked the regional capital of Urumqi. Sakamaki, a veteran of conflict zones from Liberia to Sri Lanka, was struck by the air of tension. In Xinjiang, he says, there is an almost irreconcilable divide between the Uighurs and the Han. "They don't live with each other, they don't communicate to each other and they don't understand each other...
...Journalists traveling in Xinjiang are dogged by government minders and face a suspicious and fearful populace. Local Han warned Sakamaki of straying into Uighur areas. But he was touched by the unflinching hospitality he received from Uighurs once he made the simple gesture of greeting them as a Muslim would: Salaam aleikum - "Peace be with you." "After that," Sakamaki says, "the barriers all came down...