[澳大利亞人報] 澳洲受中國影响拒绝接收东突分子

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【原文标题】China linked to Kevin Rudd's rebuff of George Bush'sGuantanamo Bay plan
【中文标题】中国与澳洲政府拒绝接收美国布什安置东突分子计划有关联 或 陆克文（澳洲总理）受中国影响拒绝布什的关塔那摩计划
【原文作者】Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent | January 10, 2009
【登载媒体】澳大利亚人报
【来源地址】http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24893752-601,00.html
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在中国一再的警告下，澳洲政府拒绝了美国布什政府关于接收17位关押在关塔那摩的中国东突分子疑犯。

北京积极游说澳洲政府反对重新安置维吾尔人（东突分子），中国西北部反国家的穆斯林激进分子（而不是送回中国），那些曾经被美国拒绝安置但又反对送回中国的人，因为担心他们会遭遇死刑的处罚。

前三个星期前，堪培拉国会会议在中国外交部长在北京公然反对他国接受东突分子的背景下召开了-被形容中级的外交手段。

发言人说，“我们多次重申，那17位被关押在美军基地的恐怖分子疑犯，是东突厥伊斯兰组织成员，该组织已经被联合国列为恐怖组织名单中。”“中国政府要求这些恐怖分子疑犯被遣送回中国。我们强烈反对任何国家接收这些人。”

上周，陆凯文政府答复布什政府，他们拒绝美国的第二个正式请求（美国2008年12月发出请求），拒绝接收那些东突分子来澳大利亚，理由为这些人不符合澳大利亚大国家安全和移民标准。

在北京传递多个外交信息给陆凯文政府后，澳洲政府（周末澳洲人，政府首脑么个周末聚会，作重要决定）作出了这个决定。除了堪培拉国会会议，周末澳洲人也从澳中外交人组织听取建议（11月），这个组织在北京。

陆凯文的发言人昨天说，政府的决定和北京的游说没有任何联系。“任何关于政府的决定是在其他国家的压力下作出的都是错误的，”这位发言人还说。“陆凯文政府从美国政府收到2个关于接收这些东突分子的请求….这些请求被认为违返澳洲国家安全和移民相关法律，所以遭到拒绝。”

这些维吾尔人和其他人共60人被布什政府认为不在存在威胁，但这些被拘留者却成了国际外交的烫手山芋，已无处可去。只有阿尔巴尼亚接收他们，这个欧洲最穷的小国2006年已经接收了5个东突分子。

这些东突分子曾被美国和澳洲视为国家安全的威胁。(这是谈论中国政治)维吾尔人可以自治，但和西藏人一样，长期受到残忍的镇压。

在这其中，像被拘留的Hozaifa Parhat (东突分子之一)，承认曾在塔利班接受武器训练，但他这么做完全是为了一个独立的维吾尔国家，突厥斯坦。

一些消息说，北京的游说是澳洲政府作出决定的一个因素，不排除政府再次考虑维吾尔人事件。

华盛顿敦促与堪培拉，布什政府官员声称维吾尔将会很好的生活在澳大利亚，因为在西方世界澳大利亚拥有最大的维吾尔族人口（3000）。

虽然该请求被驳回，但澳大利亚政府一直敞开大门，象一些欧洲国家包括英国，这似乎是其外交资本手段，再等待奥巴马就职后使用。预计，新总统和新的国务卿希拉里克林顿将快速采取重新安置维吾尔的计划。

座落在华盛顿的维吾尔组织头目Alim Seytoff，希望政府安置的维吾尔将得到近了一步的变化。“被澳大利亚拒绝接收是不幸的，但如果他们说，他们正在寻找它在个案的基础和重新安置其中一些人，那将是巨大的。但是，我们理解中国政府是非常积极的游说。”

虽然北京已利用有力的语言，也没有直接威胁到澳大利亚方面的贸易关系。一个消息说“它不会采取这种方式，但总是有这方面暗示， ”

一个为9个在关塔那摩的维吾尔作法律代表，总部位于波士顿的Neil McGaraghan任职于律师事务所Bingham McCutchen说，有关中国方面的问题欧洲议员们私下交谈的强硬外交手段。他说：“这将严重危害到经贸关系，我从欧洲国家听到的，”“因为来自中国的压力，他们不得不放弃接收东突分子。”

在10月，法官里卡多乌尔维纳下令维吾尔出现在他在华盛顿特区的的法厅，法庭的决定让布什政府感到安置维吾尔人的紧迫。布什政府立即提出上诉。上诉法院可能在任何时候颁布裁决，而对法院的裁决不寄予希望，布什政府是在11个小时外交攻势，试图寻找一个新的被拘留者家庭。

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原文：

China linked to Kevin Rudd's rebuff of George Bush'sGuantanamo Bay plan

作者：Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent | January 10, 2009


原文鏈接：
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24893752-601,00.html



THE Rudd Government denied arequest from the Bush administration to resettle 17 Chinese locked up inGuantanamo Bay military prison after a number of warnings from Beijing not totake the former terror suspects.

Beijing heavily lobbied the federal Government againstresettling the group of Muslims from northwestern China, known as Uyghurs, whomthe US has cleared but refuses to send home for fear of their torture andpossible execution.



The Canberra meeting - described as a mid-level diplomaticapproach - took place about three weeks ago. It came as the Foreign Ministry inBeijing stressed publicly its opposition to any resettlement of the Uyghurs.



"We have said on many occasions that the 17 terroristsuspects detained at the US military base of Guantanamo are members of theEastern Turkestan Islamic Movement, which is listed as a terrorist group by theUN Security Council," a spokesman said.



"The Chinese Government requires these terroristsuspects be repatriated to China. We firmly oppose any countries receivingthese people."



The Rudd Government told the Bush administration last weekthat it would not agree to a second formal request - made by the US in December- to resettle the group in Australia, saying they did not meet Australia'sstringent national security and immigration criteria.



But The Weekend Australian can reveal the decision cameafter Beijing made at least two approaches to the Rudd Government about theUyghurs.



Aside from the Canberra meeting, The Weekend Australian haslearned of one other meeting between Australian and Chinese diplomats, inBeijing in November, in which Beijing made the same case.



A spokeswoman for Kevin Rudd yesterday denied the rejectionwas linked to any lobbying from Beijing.



"Any suggestion that the Government's decision wastaken in response to pressure from any other country is wrong," thespokeswoman said.



"The Rudd Government received two requests from theUnited States Government to consider resettling a group of detainees fromGuantanamo Bay ... those requests were considered against national security andimmigration criteria and were rejected."



The Uyghurs are among about 60 detainees that the Bushadministration no longer regards as a threat, but these detainees have beencaught in the cracks of international diplomacy, with nowhere to go. The onlycountry to accept any Uyghurs was Albania, one of Europe's poorest countries,taking five from Guantanamo in 2006 over the protests of the Chinese.



The Uyghurs have been cleared as a national security threatto the US and allies such as Australia for years.
Uyghurs belong to an autonomous region but, like Tibetans,have been subject to brutal repression.



While some, such as detainee Hozaifa Parhat, admittedweapons training with the Taliban, he said his only cause was to fight forindependence for a homeland Uyghurs call Turkestan.



Sources said that while Beijing's representations fed intothe Rudd Government's decision to deny the Bush administration, it was one ofmany factors the Government took into account and did not preclude it fromlooking at the Uyghurs' case again in the future.



Washington pushed hard with Canberra, Bush administrationofficials arguing that the Uyghurs would be a good fit in Australia becauseAustralia boasts the largest Uyghur population of 3000 in the Western world.



While the request was denied, the Rudd Government has keptthe door open and, like a number of European countries including Britain, itappears to be storing its diplomatic capital for use when Barack Obama takesoffice. It is expected that the new president and new secretary of stateHillary Clinton will take up the cause to resettle the Uyghurs quickly.



The head of the Uyghur community in the US,Washington-based Alim Seytoff, is hopeful with the change in administration theresettlement of the Uyghurs will be a step closer.



"It is really unfortunate that Australia has refused therequest, but if they say they are looking at it on a case-by-case basis andresettle some of them, that would be great. But we understand the ChineseGovernment is extremely aggressive in its lobbying."
While Beijing has used forceful language, there has been nodirect threat to Australia with regard to trade ties. "It doesn't workthat way, although there is always that implication," said one source.



A legal representative for nine of the Uyghurs inGuantanamo, Boston-based Neil McGaraghan from the law firm Bingham McCutchen,said European parliamentarians have spoken privately of heavy-handed diplomaticapproaches from the Chinese regarding the matter.



"There are threats to commercial relations - it's whatwe hear from our contacts in European countries," he said.



"There have been a number of prospects (to take theUyghurs), but inevitably they fall off because of pressure from theChinese."



The Bush administration's sudden urgency on the Uyghursfollows a district court decision in October when judge Ricardo Urbina orderedthe Uyghurs to appear in his court in Washington DC, a move that edged themcloser to US asylum.



The Bush administration immediately appealed. A decisioncould be handed down at any time from the appeals court, and rather than gambleon the court decision, the Bush administration is in an 11th hour diplomaticpush to try to find the detainees a new home.