【CNN09.9.9】China to send 'harmony makers' to Urumqi

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China to send 'harmony makers' to Urumqi
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/08/china.urumqi.unrest/index.html

September 8, 2009 -- Updated 0701 GMT (1501 HKT)

(CNN) -- China is sending 7,000 officials to the western city ofUrumqi after last week's deadly protests over a strange series ofsyringe stabbings, state-run media reported.

The officials, known as "harmony makers," are meant to easetensions after demonstrators, demanding better police protection,clashed with police for two days.


The unrest left five people dead and 14 injured.

"The officials will go door to door to explain policies and solvedisputes," said Wang Lequan, secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur AutonomousRegional Committee of the Communist Party of China, according to theXinhua news agency.

Minority Uyghurs are accused of stabbing majority Han Chinese with syringes.

The syringe attacks started August 17, a month after long-simmeringresentment between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese erupted into riotsand killed more than 200 people.



Chinese troops march in Urumqi,
the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, on September 5.

By Thursday, hospitals in the area had dealt with 531 suspected victimsof syringe stabbings, 106 of whom showed obvious signs of needleattacks, state media said.

Police received an additional 77 reports of attacks between Sunday and Monday evenings.


But the report by Xinhua did not specify whether they were new attacksor ones that had just been brought to the attention of officials.

Authorities said they had detained 45 suspects in connection with the attacks, 12 of whom were taken into custody.
                        
The punishment for the attacks will beharsh: life imprisonment in some cases; the death penalty in others,government officials said.

The Han Chinese arethe country's dominant ethnic group. The Uyghurs are a Turkic-speakingMuslim minority who consider Xinjiang their homeland.

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