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Post by BAWIR$AQ on Jun 8, 2007 4:57:08 GMT 3
 In a speech delivered in Prague on June 5 at a conference on democracy and security, President George W. Bush praised the Uyghur leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Rebiya Kadeer, citing her as an individual who has struggled for freedom, democracy and human rights in the face of tyranny. President and Mrs. Bush also met privately with Ms. Kadeer at the conference.  "Another dissident I will meet with here is Rebiyah Kadeer of China, whose sons have been jailed in what we believe is an act of retaliation for her human rights activities. The talent of men and women like Rebiyah is the greatest resource of their nations -- far more valuable than the weapons of their army or oil under the ground. So America calls on every nation that stifles dissent to end its repression, trust its people, and grant its citizens the freedom they deserve."Here are the President's full remarks: www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070605-8.html In response, China Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said this: "Rebiya Kadeer is an out-and-out criminal. US behaviour is crude meddling in China's internal affairs, and we express our strong dissatisfaction and opposition."More about the life of this incredible woman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebiya_Kadeerwww.inthesetimes.com/article/2952/ Jolıñız aşıq bolsın, Rabiye apay! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2007 9:03:46 GMT 3
That's great, I bet China really regrets letting her out now that she's letting everyone know what's going on. Anyway, I know she's been a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize but when do they choose a person, a winner? Because if she wins, d**n that'll do a lot for Uygurs.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2007 9:15:12 GMT 3
Read the 2nd. paragraph in this link (http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2952/) and someone tell me what they see wrong in there.
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Post by Temüjin on Jun 8, 2007 16:50:44 GMT 3
"the Uighurs, an ethnically Turkic-Persian people" LOL  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2007 17:01:23 GMT 3
Yea, that's the first time I ever heard that. Plus, the way the pronouce Uygur. They wrote that it sounds like "wee-gur", that's the Chinese pronunciation.
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Post by BAWIR$AQ on Jun 8, 2007 20:26:23 GMT 3
the way the pronouce Uygur. They wrote that it sounds like "wee-gur", that's the Chinese pronunciation. Many English-speaking people pronounce Uyghur as "wee-gr". So that's from the Chinese, right? In Hugh Pope's audio interview, he corrects his interviewer's wrong pronounciation. |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jun 8, 2007 23:13:56 GMT 3
Many English-speaking people pronounce Uyghur as "wee-gr". So that's from the Chinese, right? Today, the Chinese name for Uyghurs is W¨¦iw¨²¨§r ¾SÎá – (simplified characters άÎá¶û). |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 12:59:13 GMT 3
Most English speaking people say it the Chinese way because they learn about Uygurs from Chinese sources or Chinese people. A lot of Uygurs, while speaking to foreigners, even say it the Chinese way because they think that this is the English and that English speakers only know this way of saying it.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jun 10, 2007 23:35:34 GMT 3
When speaking in English, I always pronounce that name in it's true form, not as "Wee-gr"; indeed, this is the first time I heard the English-speakers mis-pronounce this name  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 8:33:07 GMT 3
I always say it the Turkish way while speaking English. All the foreigners I've met here say it the Chinese way, even after I told them the English way. The Chinese/English teachers at the school I teach in once asked me how to say "Uygur" in English, after I told them they still teach their Chinese and Uygur students the Chinese way for English.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jun 11, 2007 21:24:35 GMT 3
I hate the way the Anglo-Saxons mis-pronounce non-English names  |
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