Deaths, injuries reported after attack in capital of volatile western China region

ap ^ | May 22, 2014

[BenLurkin]

Xinhua said the assailants plowed through crowds of shoppers in off-road vehicles and threw explosives out the window before crashing head-on in the early morning attack in the city of Urumqi. It said one of the vehicles then exploded and quoted an eyewitness as saying there had been up to a dozen blasts in all.

A statement from the Xinjiang regional government said the attack occurred at 7:50 a.m. and people had been killed and injured, but gave no further details.

"I heard four or five explosions. I was very scared. I saw three or four people lying on the ground," said Fang Shaoying, the owner of a small supermarket located near the scene of the blast.

[demshateGod]

I reckon none of the 31 people killed and critically injured even know what happened at Tienanmen Square, and they certainly didn’t take part in Tibet. They were just people shopping.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

I hope China decides to eliminate its Turkic Uighur Muslim population. 100% No remainder

Qing Empire genocide:
After a series of inconclusive military conflicts that started in the 1680s, the Dzungars were subjugated by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1644–1911) in the late 1750s. According to Qing scholar Wei Yuan, 40 percent of the 600,000 Zunghar people were killed by smallpox, 20 percent fled to Russia or sought refuge among the Kazakh tribes and 30 percent were killed by the Qing army of Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha Mongols. Historian Michael Edmund Clarke has argued that the Qing campaign in 1757–58 "amounted to the complete destruction of not only the Zunghar state but of the Zunghars as a people."

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#15” Hinckley: You got it right. Any major insurrection/terrorism inside Red China itself is a PLUS for America.

The Uighurs are a largely unknown entity but they are Moslems and I don’t know if they ever bothered anyone, unless Red China’s genocide in neighboring Tibet, incursions into India, subverting Nepal, and who knows what in Burma, Thailand, northern Laos, Malaysia (Indonesia 1965), Singapore, the Philippines (NPA), and Pakistan.

Let’s bleed Red China with a “death of a thousand cuts”. Why not? They are doing it to us. Red Chinese espionage is hardly ever mentioned in the mainstream media other than the recent cyberwarfare arrests (just the tip of an iceberg the size of the Empire State Building - reaches right into Congress, i.e. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Cal) for one).

[Eleutheria5]

They need stricter ATV and IED control laws.

[dfwgator]

Time to play another round of “Name That Religion.”

[GladesGuru]

“Uighurs??”

Descendants of what we call Mongols, such as the Hordes that rode out of the East under leaders such as Timur The Lame, Ghengis Kahn . . .

The game of “Mongols & Hans” goes back a long time, with lots of hate on both sides.