Rebiya Kadeer mocked by netizens over lies on Urumqi riot

BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The head of the separatist World Uygur Congress Rebiya Kadeer has been mocked by netizens for her remarks about the deadly July 5 riot in Urumqi that left 184 dead.

An article "The Real Uygur Story" by Kadeer, posted on the Wall Street Journal website, online.wsj.com, on July 8, told her version of the violence. She claimed "hundreds of Uygurs are now dead for exercising their right to protest", or in what she called a "peaceful assembly".

"She is like thousand miles from the epic center. How can she know the real story?" questioned Siu Tsang, in a comment forum linked to the article, on Saturday.

"Maybe indeed she had special channels to the Uygur area and is the mastermind behind the mob killing..." Tsang said.

"I did not know who this woman was, but after reading her so called opinion on the WSJ, I now believe that it is highly plausible this woman could be the mastermind behind the riots," said T. J. Chen in the same forum.

"... I just cannot get over the eerie feeling it was written before the riots took place," Chen said.

Kadeer was jailed in 1999 on charges of harming national security in China. She left for the United States shortly after she was released on bail in 2005. She is now leader of the World Uygur Congress, which has close contact with terrorist organizations.