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Current Tensions in Xinjiang-China

So some one please tell me how is this any different from Godhra riots in India?

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Twitter is reporting that there is discrimination being shown in treatment of victims of the riots
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The Mosque shown in the pics posted...the architecture looks Turkish.
I have been to lot of Mosques back in India but they some how have a very different feel to the ones shown in the pic.



Aimarraul,

Please check your PM and stop the inflammatory and derogatory posts.

You are only making a fool of yourself - if you wish to respond to the arguments made here then do so rationally and with civility

Thanks dear.

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this musilim woman is the wire-pulling. she had eloped to USA!!
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What are you talking about dude?We should support China.Next time you will say We love our Balochistan and it should be Independent.East Turkistan will always remain under China :china:.People like you should take up guns and fight for your muslims brothers instead of blabbing here.We only have few friends and China is one of them..you want Pakistan to be a Banana Republic.

I think Coolyo is right here.

It is the fundamental duty of Pakistan as being an Islamic Republic to support and save Muslims anywhere in the world. Recently 140 of them were killed in China. Pakistan would certainly be a banana republic if it does not stand up to its foundation of 'Save Islam and Muslims from Oppressors and Infidels'.

Millions of Muslims sacrificed their lives for the creation of Pakistan. Was it just that, Pakistan can sell itself to China, when China is actully killing Muslims?

Be a hypocrite in any sense. But, at least save the fundamental notion on which your country was founded.

You talk about Palentine brothers, Kashimiri brothers, Chechyn brothers. Now if Uhighers are not your brothers, then don't tell me it's not hypocrisy.
 
Now tell me how is this incident any different from Godhra?
Kashmir is India's Internal issue and India will solve it

Anyway

Please don't raise off topic issues in this thread.

A quick response on the kashmir part of your question - J&K is internationally recognized as disputed territory, and not part of India. It is disputed between India and Pakistan, and it is therefore not 'India's internal issue'.

This argument has been addressed countless times.

Back to topic please.
 
So some one please tell me how is this any different from Godhra riots in India?

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The Mosque shown in the pics posted...the architecture looks Turkish.
I have been to lot of Mosques back in India but they some how have a very different feel to the ones shown in the pic.

Thanks dear

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hey sir, i just want to tell you .(The Mosque shown in the pics posted...the architecture looks Turkish.) because Urumchi a chinese musilim city.. Turkish is also a musilim country!!
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Such pictures od violence are heart wrenching. I hope this stops. We can all live happily together only if we want to. All these 'ideas' of separation are artificial.
 
Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140
By Lei Xiaoxun, Cui Jia and Alexis Hooi (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-07-06 16:30

URUMQI: At least 140 people were killed and 828 others injured in riots that erupted in the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Sunday night, officials said Monday.

Death toll in Xinjiang riot rises to 140

Fifty-seven bodies were retrieved from the streets of Urumqi, while the other victims were confirmed dead in hospitals, said Liu Yaohua, the regional police chief, at a press conference.

"Several hundred people" have been arrested in the attacks and police are still searching for about 90 other key suspects in the city, Liu said.

"Police have tightened security in downtown Urumqi and at key institutions such as power and natural gas facilities, as well as TV stations, to prevent large-scale riots.”

Checkpoints have also been set up in Urumqi's key locations as well in the neighboring Changji and Turpan prefectures, to prevent any suspected rioters from fleeing, Liu said.

Similarly, more than 100 officials from adjacent areas have been transferred to the regional capital to help interrogate the suspects according to law, he said.

Initial investigations showed that the unrest was masterminded by the World Uyghur Congress (WUR) led by Rebiya Kadeer, regional authorities said.

"The unrest is a pre-empted, organized violent crime. It is instigated and directed from abroad, and carried out by outlaws in the country," a government statement said early Monday.

The WUR had recently started instigating unrest via the Internet among other means, calling on the outlaws "to be braver" and "to do something big", the authorities said.

Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, said in a televised speech Monday morning that the movement followed a dispute broke out between Xinjiang workers and local people in a toy factory in Guangdong province on June 26.


Two Uygur workers were reportedly killed during the factory brawl, which was allegedly triggered by a sexual assault by a Uygur worker toward a Han female worker.

More than 100 members of the Han and Uygur ethnic groups were injured, local media has reported.

Nur Bekri said the brawl was used by some overseas opposition forces to instigate Sunday's unrest and undermine the ethnic unity and social stability in the autonomous region, with an aim to split the country.

"We should bear in mind that stability is to the greatest interest of all people in China, including the people in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region," he said.

"Last night's attack was brutal and violent," Li Zhi, the Party Secretary of Urumqi, said Monday.

Kadeer had also told her accomplices in Urumqi on July 4 that "something big" would happen there the next day and asked them to collect relevant information, Li said.

About 10 minutes of the footage of Sunday night's riot was shown at the press conferences.

Rioters vandalized and burned 203 local stores and 14 residential houses, while 260 vehicles, including two police vehicles and 190 buses, were also reportedly torched.

Hai Mina, 23, was at home and less than 200m away from the landmark International Bazaar square when violence erupted in the Xinjiang regional capital.

"I saw youths, aged 17, 18, no one older than their early 20s, setting upon men and women. They beat two men in their 50s and 30s, right in the open. Cars and vehicles were thrashed," she told China Daily on the phone of the attacks on Sunday.

Hai is of the ethnic Hui minority group and said her family is the only Hui in her neighborhood, made up predominantly of Uygur people.

She said the violence seemed to have gone down but she is still terrified of stepping out of the house, let alone return to her herbal medicine and scented flower shop in the square's popular shopping mall.

"I wasn't feeling well yesterday and things didn't seem too right as well in the evening. I went home at 6:30pm and my sister took over the shop. She came back about an hour later and then we heard about the violence at the square. The security forces arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after the violence broke out," Hai said.

"I could see everything, all the people being beaten, from my home. We have also heard of the burnings and attacks in the other parts of the city. We heard about the fighting in Guangdong province's Shaoguan city," she said. "They say something is happening or going to happen in the Ili Kazak region as well. "I don't think it's safe yet. I'm not going anywhere."

Xinhua contributed to the story
 
Okay, stop flooding the thread with pictures that are unrelated to the riots please.
 
how many indian are living in URUMQI?zero.you have to twist the truth?
 
The death toll has risen to 140 following Sunday night's riot in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the regional government said Monday.
Fifty-seven dead bodies were retrieved from Urumqi's streets and lanes, while all the others were confirmed dead at hospitals, said Liu Yaohua, the region's police chief, at a press conference midday Monday.
He said the death toll would still be climbing.
At least 828 people were injured in the deadly violence that erupted Sunday night.
Rioters burned 261 motor vehicles, including 190 buses, at least 10 taxis and two police cars, said Liu.
Several vehicles were still seen ablaze on Urumqi's streets Monday morning, he said.
A preliminary investigation showed 203 shops and 14 homes were destroyed in the riot.
Police have arrested several hundreds in connection with the riot, including at least a dozen who were suspected of fanning the unrest, Liu said.
He said police are still searching for about 90 other key suspects in the city. "Police have tightened security in downtown Urumqi streets and at key institutions such as power and natural gas companies and TV stations to prevent large scale riots."
Checkpoints have been set up in Urumqi's key areas as well the neighboring Changji and Turpan prefectures to prevent the rioters from fleeing, Liu said.
He said more than 100 ethnic officials from adjacent areas have been transferred to Urumqi for interrogating the suspects.
 
A NIGHTMARISH NIGHT
According to police report, in the early hours on Sunday, the police department of Urumqi was tipped that information was spreading on Internet forums, calling for demonstrations at the People's Square and South Gate at 7 p.m. Sunday.
At 6:20 p.m., more than 100 people gathered at there. Violence began around 8 p.m., when some rioters started beating pedestrians and smash buses on Heping Road.
The violence soon spread to many other downtown areas.
Kadi Liya, a 23-year-old female Uygur, said she was returning home on No. 106 bus when her bus was smashed at around 7:30 p.m. at Shanxi Alley, with window glasses battered. She was beaten in the head by someone with a wood baton. She suffered slight cerebral concussion and is being treated in the regional People's Hospital.
Police said buildings in the residential compounds of the traffic police department and the taxation bureau in Tianshan District were severely scorched. "Some residents had to hide themselves in forests nearby and dared not to return home," a policeman said.
"It was like a war zone here, with many bodies of ethnic Han people lying on the road," said Huang Yabo, deputy director of the Urumqi Public Security Bureau.
Two workers of a scorched massage house on Yan'an Road were beaten to death. Fourteen people along the road said they were homeless.
A witness said an injured person was lying under the Tuanjie Road viaduct, bleeding, late Sunday night. On another street, a woman lay dead, with a bag on her back.
On Xinhua South Road, a sedan and a truck were overthrown. Their windows were smashed and doors deformed.
Rioters also set fire to a large hotel near the office building of the regional foreign trade department.
 
The death toll has risen to 140 following Sunday night's riot in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the regional government said Monday.

Also to remember that BBC is calling worse than Tienanmen square.

And the number of dead are only the official figures.

We all know how Chinese official figures work.!
how many indian are living in URUMQI?zero.you have twist the truth?
You need to give up your obsession with Indians, dude.

A quick response on the kashmir part of your question - J&K is internationally recognized as disputed territory, and not part of India. It is disputed between India and Pakistan, and it is therefore not 'India's internal issue'.
Okay.....lets not compare Kashmir..Lets compare it with Godhra

How is it any different from Godhra ?
 
ORDER PARTIALLY RESTORED
Traffic blockades were partially lifted Monday morning in parts of Urumqi, but tension still exists in the city.
With the exception of Yan'an Road, Tuanjie Road, a road near Xinjiang University, and Ningxiawan in the suburbs of Urumqi, blockades in downtown Urumqi have been removed.
Debris has been cleared from the roads and normal traffic has resumed. Workers are still pulling away damaged vehicles from the worst-affected roads in the city.
But most shops in areas where the violence occurred remained closed.
At a market on Guangming Road, only ten vegetables and fruit stalls opened Monday, compared with dozens on normal days. The market was usually crowded.
Li Guifang, a resident near the market, said they had heard the violence last night and few residents came to the market in the morning.
Armed police are patrolling streets that are still blockaded.
MASTERMIND BEHIND VIOLENCE
Initial investigations showed the violence was masterminded by the separatist World Uyghur Congress led by Rebiya Kadeer, according to the regional government.
Rebiya Kadeer, a former businesswoman in China, was detained in1999 on charges of harming national security. She was released on bail on March 17, 2005 to seek medical treatment in the United States.
"The violence is a preempted, organized violent crime. It is instigated and directed from abroad, and carried out by outlaws in the country," a government statement said early Monday.
According to the government, the World Uyghur Congress has recently been instigating an unrest via the Internet, calling on supporters "to be braver" and "to do something big."
Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, said in a televised speech Monday morning that three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism made use of a fight between Uygur and Han ethnic workers in a toy factory in Guangdong Province on June 26, in which two Uygur workers died, to create chaos.
The fight was triggered by the sexual assault of a female Han worker by a Uygur coworker, he said.
"We should bear in mind that stability is to the greatest interest of all people in China, including the 21 million-plus people from all ethnic groups in Xinjiang," he said.
Xinjiang, the far western autonomous region, is home to more than 10.96 million of ethnic minority people, including Uygur, Mongolian and Hui.
 
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