Dr. Brown has created a real mess by cutting out the Governor on his “Stay one night at the Fairmont and get 4 Uighurs free” tourism promotion.
In Bermuda, we are used to murky controversy going wherever our operatic Premier goes. Sounds like the State Department, in their rush to seal the deal, didn’t check all [...]
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Island Amateurs
June 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Bermuda Politics
Tags:China·Guantanamo Bay·Uighurs
Bermuda Takes in Guantanamo Prisoners
June 11th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Bermuda Politics
The Premier this morning announced that Bermuda has agreed to resettle four newly-released prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison.
The Uighurs, a Turkic Muslim minority from the Xinjiang province of far-west China, were living in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan run by the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, a Uighur independence group the State Department designated [...]
Tags:China·Guantanamo Bay·Uighurs