Jungles can have a very dense canopy. It might now be detectible from the ground. Any chance it could be further inland?
Vietnamese military personnel prepare a helicopter for a search and rescue mission
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By
Harriet Alexander, Malcolm Moore
Beijing
2:26PM GMT 10 Mar 2014
14.38 Amid all the confusion, a previously-unknown group calling itself
the Chinese Martyr's Brigade reportedly claimed responsibility for the
"terrorist attack".
But no one appears to think that is a genuine claim....
The Chinese-speaking Muslims (click here) have for centuries been an inseperable but
anomalous part of Chinese society - Sinophone yet incomprehensible,
local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese
government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental
Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally
transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining
connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural
differences from their non-Muslim neighbors....
Google Books (click here)
The concept of radicalized groups is consistent with the area.
This particular province has seen the suffering of the people in ways the rest of China has not. Earthquakes and movement of villages to find new homes can begin to explain how they believe god is sending them on a crusade, especially young men. But, geologically this region is very unstable and it is understandable how some of the uneducated would seek solace and understanding through religious pretexts.
They are not wrong to seek solace with god when their faith is challenged, but, they are wrong to seek violence against others as a means of satisfying god.
3 March 2014
Last updated at 08:25 ET
Rich in minerals and resources, Xinjiang is home to approximately nine million Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic minority. Most are Muslims. In the last year, more than a hundred people have been killed in violence in the autonomous region.
Beijing blames the attacks on violent Uighur separatists. But human rights groups say that China's repressive policies in the region are fuelling the unrest.
But what must really worry China's leaders is that the violence from Xinjiang now appears to be spreading....
China has diffuse authority in their outlying provinces. If China thought terrorism was the reason for the missing flight there could be uncontrolled response to that reality and retribution for it. China needs to be very careful and sure there were international criminals involved.
Google Books (click here)
The concept of radicalized groups is consistent with the area. This particular province has seen the suffering of the people in ways the rest of China has not. Earthquakes and movement of villages to find new homes can begin to explain how they believe god is sending them on a crusade, especially young men. But, geologically this region is very unstable and it is understandable how some of the uneducated would seek solace and understanding through religious pretexts.
They are not wrong to seek solace with god when their faith is challenged, but, they are wrong to seek violence against others as a means of satisfying god.
3 March 2014
Last updated at 08:25 ET
The horrific attack at Kunming railway station (click here) - in which knife-wielding attackers hacked at
least 29 people to death - has shocked China. One of the country's
newspapers dubbed it China's "9/11."
Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua called it a terrorist attack carried out by "Xinjiang separatist forces".Rich in minerals and resources, Xinjiang is home to approximately nine million Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic minority. Most are Muslims. In the last year, more than a hundred people have been killed in violence in the autonomous region.
Beijing blames the attacks on violent Uighur separatists. But human rights groups say that China's repressive policies in the region are fuelling the unrest.
But what must really worry China's leaders is that the violence from Xinjiang now appears to be spreading....
China has diffuse authority in their outlying provinces. If China thought terrorism was the reason for the missing flight there could be uncontrolled response to that reality and retribution for it. China needs to be very careful and sure there were international criminals involved.
