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30 Aug 2009 08:46 am
Remembering The Uighurs - And Albania
by Chris Bodenner
Nathan Thrall has a great piece in the current print issue of TNR
profiling the Uighurs who resettled in Albania. The men were basically sold out by the Bush administration:
[I]n December
2001, the United States denied China's request for custody of the
Uighur detainees and refused to link Uighur separatists to the global
war on terrorism. But, as military action against Iraq loomed, and the
United States faced the possibility that China's representatives on the
United Nations Security Council would veto any such action, U.S. policy
toward the Uighurs changed. In the last week of August of 2002 ... [the
administration] announced that the United States was acceding to
China's demand to label an obscure Uighur group, the East Turkestan
Islamic Movement, a terrorist organization.
There are more than a dozen innocent Uighurs still sitting in Guantanamo,
waiting to be released. But no country is willing to accept them,
above all the U.S.
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