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| Chinese police shoot dead six in restive Xinjiang |
| 2015-01-12 |
| (Reuters) - A group of "mobsters" on Monday tried to set off an explosive device in a business district in China's troubled western region of Xinjiang, prompting police to shoot six of them dead, the local government said. Hundreds of people have been killed in resource-rich Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of central Asia, in violence in the past two years between the Muslim Uighur people who call the region home and ethnic majority Han Chinese. Months ago I posted key statistics highly relative to this issue, i.e., the # of Moslem Uighur people vs. the # of non-Muslim Han people in the PRC. This ratio is grotesquely imbalanced. At the moment I feel too lazy to go back & recover those stats. One might guess news reporters would consider this population ratio info a key part of their story, and one would be consistently WRONG. The Chinese have a long history of massive suffering wrought by restive minorities & they are even less likely to put up with separatist crap than they were 2000 years ago. Police in Shule county, south of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, had acted on a tip-off about "a suspicious person carrying an explosive device", the Xinjiang government said on its official news website. An axe-wielding individual tried to attack police officers and set off an explosive device, prompting the officers to shoot him, the government said. The report added that police trying to dispose of an explosive device were attacked by five "thugs" who sought to detonate it, but did not make clear if this was a separate incident. Xinjiang is crucial to China's growing energy needs, but analysts say the bulk of the proceeds from sales of its resources has gone to majority Han Chinese, stoking resentment among Uighurs. Boo-hoo Well no: that's exactly the sort of problem that leads to separatist movements. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |