Posted on 07/07/2009 10:52:55 AM PDT by traumer
URUMQI, China — Mobs of Han Chinese wielding meat cleavers and clubs and groups of Muslim Uighur men beat people in the streets of the capital of China's Xinjiang region Tuesday. The government imposed a curfew as it tried to stem communal violence after a riot that killed at least 156 people.
Members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group attacked people near the Urumqi's railway station, and women in headscarves protested the arrests of husbands and sons in another part of the city. Meanwhile, for much of the afternoon, a mob of 1,000 mostly young Han Chinese holding clubs and chanting "Defend the Country" tore through streets trying to get to a Uighur neighborhood until they were repulsed by police firing tear gas.
Panic and anger bubbled up amid the suspicion in Urumqi. In some neighborhoods, Han Chinese — China's majority ethnic group — armed themselves with pieces of lumber and shovels to defend themselves. People bought up bottled water out of fear, as one resident said, that "the Uighurs might poison the water."
The outbursts happened despite swarms of paramilitary and riot police enforcing a dragnet that state media said led to the arrest more than 1,400 participants in Sunday's riot, the worst ethnic violence in the often tense region in decades.
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The .... is hitting the fan
I believe the Post headline said something about “Ethnic Violence.”
Big Trouble in Big China?
I am surprised the Chinese don’t just wipe the towel-heads out.
We must control and regulate meat cleavers.....
Gee. Where’s the Left’s OUTRAGE here (as opposed to their outrage in Honduras’ president getting overthrown and deported)
Such crap.
Not quite...The Chicoms don’t put up with the Muslim BS like we in the West. They will send in the tanks....
Seems a bit out of character for muslims to be involved in such violent situations...
Hopefully they greased the cleavers with pork fat.
Love and peace is busting out all over in the 000bam-era.
The nation that cleaves together..........
ahh, forget it.
/sarc
Aren’t some of these peaceful people now in Bermuda, courtesy of the US taxpayers?
There are quite a few recent clips of the rioting on YouTube.
Some here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wIQRZyNbAg
Hard to know who’s really most at fault.
And to make matters worse, the Han apparently have unfairly denied the cuddly Uighurs the right to own meat cleavers.
A pox on both their houses. I can't say I really support the Han Chinese much.
Must be the Han Chinese causing all the problems.
You know, Tibet and all that.....
Uighurs are usually pretty peaceful, except when they're being trained by al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Even then they're really good guys at heart.
/sarc
To honor MJ?
And they’re good at chopping things up.
I expect they will. In the run-up to the Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese literally hacked 40,000 Chinese Christians to pieces in a matter of weeks using little more than machetes and axes. With modern equipment, I expect the process of liquidating the Uighurs to be quicker and more thorough, given that the Uighurs don't even look like the Chinese.
Then you can have your little victory dance.
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