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| Four Dead in Attack on China Police Station |
| 2011-07-19 |
| [An Nahar] At least four people were killed when a crowd attacked a cop shoppe Monday in the latest bout of deadly unrest in China's restive Xinjiang region, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The dead included two security officers and two people who had been taken hostage in the incident in the remote city of Hotan, it said. In a separate report, Xinhua said an unspecified number of attackers had also been killed, but gave no details. The festivities broke out when a group of people attacked the cop shoppe, took hostages and set fire to the building, the report said, adding that the situation had now been brought under control. Xinjiang witnessed the worst ethnic violence China has seen in decades in 2009, in festivities between Mohammedan Uighurs and members of the majority Han ethnic group. The unrest, which lasted for days, was largely fueled by Uighur resentment over China's rule of Xinjiang. According to |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 IIRC the WUC = World Uighur Congress is disputing the official Govt. casualty toll, arguing that 20 Uighurs were killed by Police, i.e. 14 beaten to death + 6 shot, wid scores wounded or unaccounted for. Beijing, on its part, is labeling the incident as the work of "terrorists" linked to Uighur, other Central Asian radical separatists. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-19 22:17 |