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| Police gun down three Uighur farmers in separate incidents | |
| 2014-08-23 | |
Security forces in northwestern China's Xinjiang region have gunned down three Uighur Muslim farmers after they allegedly resisted arrest in connection with suspected separatist activities. But a local Uighur leader said the three did not commit any "tangible" crimes and were rounded up for possession of knives and axes as well as Islamic material.
He said, "Three people in our village and No. 20 village have been shot over the past ten days, while 13 have been detained and three are being sought. When we asked what their crimes were, [the authorities] said some of them possessed forbidden religious books, while others had knives, axes and fitness gear such as boxing gloves and sand bags. But I think that none of them, including the ones killed and detained, committed any tangible crimes." Hundreds have died in violence in Xinjiang over the past year, but with the tight security measures taken by Chinese officials, foreign media groups say it's nearly impossible for journalists to make independent assessments. In the latest violence to rock the remote region, Chinese state media said that 96 people were killed in July 28 riots which erupted after a Uighurs attacked a police station and government offices in Kashgar prefecture's Yarkand (in Chinese, Shache) county. However, Rebiya Kadeer, president of the exile World Uighur Congress (WUC), accused authorities of a cover up of what she called a "massacre" of Uighurs in Yarkand and claimed that at least 2,000 Uighurs may have been killed by Chinese security forces following the riots. | |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Farm'n be hard. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-23 11:38 |
| #1 In olden times, arrested suspects in China would most unfortunately succumb to the rigors of interrogation. Nowadays they succumb to the rigors of being arrested. Such is progress. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-08-23 10:23 |