China riots: death toll from Xinjiang unrest rises

Telegraph UK ^ | 7/6/09

[FromLori]

More than 100 people have been killed and 800 injured in a riot which broke out in the ethnically sensitive far-Western Chinese province of Xinjiang.

The death-toll, which stands at 129, marks a major escalation in the casualty figures from the disturbance which broke out on Sunday night after police tried to disperse a demonstration by members of the Uighur Muslim minority in the provincial capital, Urumqi. Initial reports said that just three people had been killed in running battles with police that left burned-out cars and buses and several smashed shop-fronts.

Xinhua, the state-operated news service, did not provide any further details as to the composition of the casualty-list between the Uighur minority and ethnic Han Chinese.

Hundreds of arrests had been made, including 10 "key figures" it said were involved in the unrest, while authorities were now looking for 90 others responsible for "fanning" the protests, the agency added. Authorities said all traffic was cleared from the streets on Monday morning to retain order. Another witness said the city of 2.3 million which is 2,000 miles west Beijing residents was now effectively "on lockdown". The disturbances come after a year of rising tensions between the dominant Han Chinese authorities and the Uighur ethnic minority - the historical ethnic majority in Xinjiang - who say they have been socially and economically marginalised by Beijing's development policies.

[blam]

China Update: 129 Dead In Muslim Riots

[Cindy]

A closer look at the Uighurs
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/uighurs/index

[AlaskaErik]

The disturbances come after a year of rising tensions between the dominant Han Chinese authorities and the Uighur ethnic minority - the historical ethnic majority in Xinjiang - who say they have been socially and economically marginalised by Beijing's development policies.

Translation...these diaperheads aren't being given welfare and special privileges as their brethren in Europe are. I'm no big fan of Red China, but I agree with their crackdown on these troublemakers.

[rawcatslyentist]

Let me guess, 15%?

[rmlew]

You are right. It has absolutely nothing to do with Han colonization and subjugation of East Turkestan, the “redevelopment” or historic Kashgar, or the recent murder of dozens of Uyghurs in Guandong, after a Han woman was purportedly raped by a a Uyghur or Hui.

[ponder life]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those pictures of soldiers in Nepal apprehending a Buddhist monk?

[ponder life]

That was my point, China is doing the same to all “terrorists”

But what I am saying is, that the picture you presented is not a picture of Chinese soldiers arresting a Buddhist monk. It's a picture Napalese soliders arresting a monk in the nation of NEPAL. Unless you're suggesting China is directing them to do so.

[gavroche]

You are right.....

[ponder life]

You are right.....

Thanks. I get very little of that here :)