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China says 14 rioters killed in Xinjiang attack

World Jul. 20, 2011 - 01:43PM JST ( 14 )

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nandakandamandaJul. 20, 2011 - 02:42PM JST

Lots of reading between the lines necessary here, folks.

You could say "Dang, those Chinese rubber bullets sound pretty destructive. Maybe the police should have aimed for the lower legs".

There is a lot of perceived discrimination there, a lot of hatred, and a burgeoning independence movement. The situation also has similarities to other states in the Russian Caucasus for example where some radicals would like to set up their own Caliphate.

This could have been a full-blown Islamic fanaticist terrorist attack, like Mumbai, Afghanistan and Pakistan recently, in which case burning the building down and shooting the people as they ran upstairs may have been seen as the only quick option.

I suspect the truth is all of the above and more, but with a controlled press who really knows?
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nandakandamandaJul. 20, 2011 - 02:45PM JST

PS This is not very clear: "Agency said a police officer, a woman and a teenage girl taken hostage by the rioters were also killed."

I guess it means that the hostages inside the police station were killed by the police attacking from outside.
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pawatanJul. 20, 2011 - 03:11PM JST

Knowing China's suppression of facts I would suspect the real total of dead is 10x what is reported, and the cause is probably Chinese cops firing on protesters, not rioters. But China can say whatever they want, I suppose, and none of us can do anything to find out what really happened. Enjoy those cheap Chinese products!
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just-a-guyJul. 20, 2011 - 04:53PM JST

The Chinese government long time 'appeasement' the uyghar sabotages was the cause of growing attacks over Han Chinese people who settled there! Disstability in xinjiang was there exist a myth that the so called'East turkistan' a pan Turkish movement without legitimacy and a nation who declared in 1933-1944! Xinjiang means the new border in Chinese, the land that belongs to China!
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just-a-guyJul. 20, 2011 - 05:20PM JST

14 terrorists killed in firefights,no apologies,good job police actions! No releases of any detainees since 2009, law must be implied with strength! Nice shot,the special security force! Heart felt sorry for those Han woman and teenage girls killed in cross fire!
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pawatanJul. 20, 2011 - 05:30PM JST

Heart felt sorry for those Han woman and teenage girls killed in cross fire!

I have a 'heart felt sorry' for those Uighur people who can't even practice their own religion and culture without their government flooding their homeland with outsiders in an attempt to destroy their culture. They aren't even allowed to protest without the Chinese government sending in their thugs.
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just-a-guyJul. 20, 2011 - 06:02PM JST

Absolute no release any detainees who were suspected involving the 2009 riot in Uramuqi until every details of who killed who were solved in trails! The phrase: gone missing into police custody.......was completely biased. Those custodies were lawful and necessary for justice! There were not just rioters or thugs but 'terrorists' because they were politically motivated and they have ethnic hatred over Han people there, what they wants is killing Chinese people indiscrimintley. The two female murdered by those terrorists was the evidences to proof the attackers and the people behind backing them were no innocences!
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tkoind2Jul. 20, 2011 - 11:27PM JST

nandakandamanda

It is reaching to try to portray the Uyghur movement as "radical islamists", this is exactly how the state Chinese wish the world to see these protests.

In fact the Uyghurs are supposed to have considerable autonomy in NW China. In reality Han Chinese have moved to the region, supported by the state, and now outnumber Uyghurs and are rapidly displacing them.

In addition China has used every opportunity to crush local independence movements and have worked to cover their repression up by casting it "terrorism" or "Islamic fundamentalism" when neither reflect the Uyghur reality.

To be honest, your view sounds very much like Chinese propaganda masking as concern over the truth from the local Chinese media. A nice tactic, but easily overcome by real facts that illustrate a growing capacity by China to repress minorities.

One more reason I think we should tie economic investment and participation to human rights and civil liberties when dealing with the still repressive Chinese regime.
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tkoind2Jul. 20, 2011 - 11:32PM JST

And Just a guy. You need to study your history of the region and the Uyghurs mate. The Han have been the repressive race in Xinxiang region not the Uyghurs. You too sound like a Chinese poster masking as someone else.

2009 actions have been widely reported as a response to very violent repression of Uyghurs by the Chinese for trying to demand rights and to protect individual Uyghurs against abuse by Han Chinese.

China is not fooling anyone with this. The Uyghurs are Sufi Muslims who strongly advocate peace and harmony. There is no evidence what so ever of radical Arabic Islamic movements in this area. Nor is there evidence that efforts for the protection of Uyghur rights against overt Chinese oppression are anything other than civil uprisings.

China is lying and your post is pure Chinese propaganda. As with all topics regarding China there are state managed posts put up on these sites masking as usual posts. Just more Chinese nonsense to control their very negative PR.
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PT24881Jul. 21, 2011 - 01:10AM JST

Neither...nor (not or)
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konjo4uJul. 21, 2011 - 10:03AM JST

About four years ago we were reading stories (at least in the states) that Rupert Murdoch was entering the Chinese media scene. I just looked and now I see the BBC reporting that did not happen.

I will sound like an apologist for a moment and say that when I was working in Beijing I would read English language news at a hotel restaurant near my apartment. I was surprised a couple of times to read stories that I would have expected to be suppressed. One was an explosion that killed a large number of people, and another was stating six people had been hospitalized for SARS.

However, ethnic tensions were never reported. They were obvious, too. A person dare not speak of it, though.
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BreitbartVictoriousJul. 21, 2011 - 01:48PM JST

Add China to the list of nations being besieged by Mohammedan killers and fanatics.
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just-a-guyJul. 21, 2011 - 10:52PM JST

The Uyghurs are Sufi Muslims who strongly advocate peace and harmony. There is no evidence what so ever of radical Arabic Islamic ...........................That was the biggest 'propaganda' ever fabricated. Thankks for sharing!
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Elbuda MexicanoJul. 23, 2011 - 11:56AM JST

China has as any country, many problems, and if Beijing keeps trying to crush the Muslims, well the rest of the Muslims around the world will make China and Chinese targets right? I think Al Qaeda has already declared China and Chinese in Africa as targets because Beijing keeps trying to push their Muslim minorities into corners, so our Chinese amigos should not be surprised when they start getting attacked by angry Muslims anywhere in China and around the world.