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本帖最后由 忧心 于 2009-7-8 13:03 编辑
Hu to skip G8 over China unrest
| | 链接：http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/200977224824983269.html | The Chinese president is skipping the G8 summit in Italy and returning to Beijing following unrest in China's western Xinjiang province that has claimed at least 156 lives.
The official Xinhua news agency said Hu Jintao, who had been on a state visit to Italy ahead of the Group of Eight summit starting on Wednesday, was rushing back "due to the situation" in Xinjiang.
Urumqi, Xinjiang's regional capital, appeared quiet early on Wednesday a day after heavily armed troops were deployed and a night-time curfew imposed as rival ethnic groups took to the streets, battling each other and the police.
Anti-riot police continued to block off main streets, while armoured personnel carriers patrolled the city as soldiers went about their morning exercises.
Seeking revenge
Thousands of ethnic Han Chinese, armed with poles, meat cleavers and other weapons had stormed through the city on Tuesday, seeking revenge against ethnic Uighurs who they say started deadly riots on Sunday.
Groups of Uighurs also took to the streets and government forces fired tear gas at the crowds and ordered the imposition of a curfew in an effort to maintain control of the city.
Al Jazeera's correspondent, Melissa Chan, reporting from Urumqi, said that one group of Han Chinese, some armed with sticks, shovels and knives, had tried to break through police lines to reach a Uighur area of the city on Tuesday.
She said some groups of Han Chinese were searching cars looking for anyone they thought to be Uighur.
Some of the Han protesters were singing the Chinese national anthem and pledging to defend their country.
Other reports quoted Han Chinese vowing to take revenge on Uighurs they blamed for Sunday's unrest.
"They attacked us. Now it's our turn to attack them," one man in the crowd told the Reuters news agency.
China said on Monday that at least 156 people had been killed after Uighurs rioted a day earlier in some of the deadliest ethnic unrest in the country for decades.
Uighur groups say China's repressive policies combined with years of mass migration to Xinjiang by Han Chinese, China's largest ethnic group, have stoked ethnic tensions and sown the seeds for violence.
Protest against arrests
Earlier hundreds of ethnic Uighurs, many of them women, clashed with police as they protested against the arrest of relatives in the crackdown that followed Sunday's unrest.
Many waved the identity cards of husbands, brothers or sons they said had been arbitrarily detained.
"My husband was taken away yesterday by police. They didn't say why. They just took him away," one woman who identified herself as Maliya told Reuters.
Several objects were thrown and fighting broke out when Uighur protesters advanced towards lines of anti-riot police carrying clubs and shields.
The clashes came as a group of foreign reporters, including Al Jazeera's correspondent, were being taken on a tour of the city to see the aftermath of Sunday's riots.
Chinese police are reported to have arrested more than 1,400 people in a crackdown that Wang Lequan, the head of the Chinese Communist party in Xinjiang, said was intended to quell the unrest, although he warned "this struggle ... against separatism ... is far from over".
According to Chinese state media, Sunday's clashes erupted after a demonstration against the government's handling of an industrial dispute turned violent.
Exiles reject blame
Xinjiang and the Uighurs
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Xinjiang is officially an autonomous region in China's west.
Region is sparsely populated but has large reserves of oil, gas and minerals.
Xinjiang was formerly a key transit point on the ancient Silk Road linking China to Europe.
Region's Turkic speaking Uighur population number around eight million.
Uighur activists say migration from other parts of China is part of official effort to dilute Uighur culture in their own land.
Uighurs say they face repression on a range of fronts, including bans on the teaching of their language.
Uighur separatists have staged series of low-level attacks since early 1990s.
China says Uighur separatists are terrorists and linked to al-Qaeda.
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The Chinese government blames Uighur exiles for stoking the unrest, singling out Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur businesswoman who was jailed for years in China before being released into exile in the US where she now heads the World Uighur Congress, for "masterminding" the unrest.
"Rebiya had phone conversations with people in China on July 5 in order to incite, and websites such as Uighurbiz.cn and Diyarim.com were used to orchestrate the incitement and spread of propaganda," said Nur Bekri, the governor of Xinjiang.
Kadeer, a 62-year-old mother of 11, has rejected the accusations, saying from Washington DC that they were "completely false".
"I did not organise any protests or call on the people to demonstrate," she said.
Explaining to reporters that she called her brother in Xinjiang when she learnt of the violence in Urumqi to warn her 40 relatives in the region to stay away from the demonstrations, she said: "A call I made to my brother does not mean I organised the whole event."
Activists say the clashes started when armed police moved in to break up a peaceful demonstration called after two Uighur workers at a toy factory in southern China were killed in a clash with Han Chinese staff late last month.
Kadeer said the protests in Urumqi started peacefully.
"They were not violent as the Chinese government has accused. They were not rioters or separatists," she said.
She did, however, condemn "the violent actions of some of the Uighur demonstrators", saying her organisation supported only peaceful protests.
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