New unrest in China's Xinjiang after syringe attacks (what's in syringe?)

Reuter ^ | 09/03/09 | Ben Blanchard And Lucy Hornby

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New unrest in China's Xinjiang after syringe attacks

By Ben Blanchard and Lucy Hornby

Thu Sep 3, 5:29 am ET

BEIJING (Reuters) – A new round of unrest broke out in China's far western region of Xinjiang on Thursday, as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against a series of reported syringe attacks in the regional capital, witnesses said.

The protests happened at a highly sensitive time for China, as it gears up to celebrate in less than a month the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party coming to power, which has been accompanied by a nationwide security clampdown.

While the number of demonstrators in the regional capital, Urumqi, was hard to verify, some witnesses said they had seen ethnic Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to the region, being beaten up by majority Han Chinese.

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Han Chinese protesting against syringe attacks

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Ping!

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[tanuki]

We’re almost at SARS season-this could get serious.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yes, if real outbreak of some serious epidemic, SARS, bird flu or swine flu actually kills people, this will escalate into full-scale pogrom. On the other hand, this could be a convenient cover for ethnic cleansing and breaking the resistance spirit of Uighurs.

[tanuki]

“On the other hand, this could be a convenient cover for ethnic cleansing and breaking the resistance spirit of Uighurs.”

I’ll bet you that’s exactly what it is. This reads like classic ethnic fear-mongering.

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The Uighurs are back at it again. They are running and jabbing with syringes this time. Too bad we let some of them go from Gitmo. They are great for comic relief.

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...for China, as it gears up to celebrate in less than a month the 60th anniversary of the Communist Party coming to power, which has been accompanied by a nationwide security clampdown.

Somehow that sounds perfectly appropriate and consistent. How else would communists celebrate their power?

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"I think it's the government purposefully letting the Han protest to give them an excuse to beat up Uighurs. They intentionally want to create problems between the Han and the Uighurs," he said by telephone.

Hmmmm, now why would he think the ChiCom gov would do that?

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Warning - Graphic:

City of Urumqi Riot July 5, 2009 Part 1
City of Urumqi Riot July 5, 2009 Part 2
City of Urumqi Riot July 5, 2009 Part 3