Telegraph: China vows to crush unrest in Xinjiang

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China vows to crush unrest in XinjiangChina has vowed to crush any unrest in its far West after violent clashes left 156 dead and threatened to destabilise the region.
[size=1.3em]By Peter Foster in Urumqi and Malcolm Moore in Shanghai

Published: 6:26PM BST 06 Jul 2009

[size=1.1em]Riot in Urumqi: The disturbances come after a year of rising tensions between the dominant Han Chinese authorities and the Uighur ethnic minority
[size=1.1em]Photo: REUTERS


[size=1.3em]Senior government officials said they would tighten Beijing's control on the troubled desert province of Xinjiang after riots in Urumqi threatened to spill over into other cities.

[size=1.3em]Wang Lequan, a senior member of the Politburo and party secretary of the region, said running battles between Muslim Uighurs and the Chinese police had been "a profound lesson learned in blood".

[size=1.3em]He promised the authorities would "take the most resolute and strongest measures to deal with the enemies' latest attempt at sabotage".
[size=1.3em]Xinhua, the state newswire, said the attacks were a "pre-empted, organised violent crime, instigated and directed from abroad and carried out by outlaws in the country."

[size=1.3em]Last year, the government launched a strike-hard campaign in Xinjiang after a series of attacks on policemen ahead of the Olympic games. The suppression included the closing of mosques and markets in some cities, and increased surveillance of Uighurs.

[size=1.3em]Wang spoke as there were reports of violence spreading with witnesses claiming several hundred rioters had fought with police in Kashgar, the second-largest Uighur city.

[size=1.3em]People's Liberation Army trucks were spotted arriving in Kashgar yesterday evening. Mobile phone and internet communications had also been cut across several cities to prevent any attempts at another co-ordinated protest.

[size=1.3em]Uighur activists accused the Chinese authorities of machine-gunning protesters in the streets. Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uighur Congress in Exile, said the police had opened fire on the crowd when it reached the local government offices.

[size=1.3em]"Around 5pm on Sunday afternoon, several thousand Uighurs including workers, students and some Urumqi citizens started a peaceful protest, demanding that the government should stop discrimination, stop importing cheap Uighur labour to work on the mainland and a fair inquiry into the murder of two workers.

[size=1.3em]"They were carrying banners and slogans, they marched towards the municipal government's building. The government tried to stop them and asked the protesters to disperse and go home, but the protesters refused. An hour later, around 6pm military forces started to show up and they used machine guns to shoot randomly at Uighurs on the street. At least 150 people died in the firing."

[size=1.3em]He added that the authorities had conducted door-to-door searches and arrested 1,000 Uighurs.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5760388/China-vows-to-crush-unrest-in-Xinjiang.html

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“星期日下午大约5点，数千名维吾尔人，包括工人学生和一些市民开始了和平抗议，要求政府停止歧视，停止输送维吾尔族廉价劳动力到大陆工作，和公正的调查两名工人被谋杀事件。

“他们带着横幅和标语，游行走向市政府大楼。政府试图阻止他们，并要求示威者解散回家，但示威者拒绝。一小时后，约下午6时军队开始出现，他们在大街上用机枪扫射维吾尔人。至少150人被打死。 “

"Around 5pm on Sunday afternoon, several thousand Uighurs including workers, students and some Urumqi citizens started a peaceful protest, demanding that the government should stop discrimination, stop importing cheap Uighur labour to work on the mainland and a fair inquiry into the murder of two workers.

"They were carrying banners and slogans, they marched towards the municipal government's building. The government tried to stop them and asked the protesters to disperse and go home, but the protesters refused. An hour later, around 6pm military forces started to show up and they used machine guns to shoot randomly at Uighurs on the street. At least 150 people died in the firing."