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Chinese police shoot dead two Uighurs on Vietnam border
Two ethnic Uighurs shot and killed by police on China-Vietnam border as tension escalates in Xinjiang region
Fully armed Chinese paramilitary police patrol a street in Urumqi, the capital of farwest China's Muslim Uighur homeland of Xinjiang Photo: GOH CHAI HIN/AFP
By Nicola Davison, Shanghai
2:16PM GMT 19 Jan 2015
Police shot dead two ethnic Uighurs in southern China as they tried to illegally cross the border into Vietnam, state media reported.
The shooting occurred when police intercepted a van carrying five Uighur “stowaways” at a motorway tollbooth on Sunday evening near Pingxiang in the Guangxi region, according to the China Daily, a state-run newspaper.
Two of the Uighurs “violently resisted arrest” and attacked police with knives before being killed. Two members of the group were detained and one is at large.
Hundreds of people have been killed around China in the past two years in violence between majority Han Chinese and Uighurs, a Muslim minority from China's western Xinjiang region.
News of the border violence came two days after police shot dead six Uighurs in Xinjiang who were trying to detonate a bomb.
“China is using extreme means like shooting and killing these people in order to intimidate other Uighurs who wish to escape,” Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, told AFP news agency.
"There is a direct relationship between China's repressive policies and the increase in those trying to escape."
Xinjiang has been the focus of a year-long government crackdown on “terrorism driven by religious extremism”, which has included the banning of the burka in Urumqi, the regional capital.
It is difficult for Uighurs to obtain a passport; state media has claimed “separatists” have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State.
Rights groups say the government is violating the Uighurs' right to worship and its hardline policy is driving Uighur youth to extremism.
Since China’s Ministry of Public Security set up a special task force to patrol the country’s borders last April, some 350 alleged people smugglers have been arrested and 850 people attempting to flee across the border have been detained.
The smuggling is “mainly organised abroad and controlled behind the scenes ... in efforts to spread religious extremism, and bewitch and incite people to flee abroad to take part in jihadist activities,” a statement on the ministry’s website said.
Last year hundreds of people claiming to be Turkish but believed to be Uighur were detained in Thailand. In November nine Uighurs and 10 Turkish nationals were arrested in Shanghai in a fake passport plot. The Turks, who had entered China legally, provided the Uighurs forged passports for 60,000 yuan (£6,400) each.
Two ethnic Uighurs shot and killed by police on China-Vietnam border as tension escalates in Xinjiang region
Fully armed Chinese paramilitary police patrol a street in Urumqi, the capital of farwest China's Muslim Uighur homeland of Xinjiang Photo: GOH CHAI HIN/AFP
By Nicola Davison, Shanghai
2:16PM GMT 19 Jan 2015
Police shot dead two ethnic Uighurs in southern China as they tried to illegally cross the border into Vietnam, state media reported.
The shooting occurred when police intercepted a van carrying five Uighur “stowaways” at a motorway tollbooth on Sunday evening near Pingxiang in the Guangxi region, according to the China Daily, a state-run newspaper.
Two of the Uighurs “violently resisted arrest” and attacked police with knives before being killed. Two members of the group were detained and one is at large.
Hundreds of people have been killed around China in the past two years in violence between majority Han Chinese and Uighurs, a Muslim minority from China's western Xinjiang region.
News of the border violence came two days after police shot dead six Uighurs in Xinjiang who were trying to detonate a bomb.
“China is using extreme means like shooting and killing these people in order to intimidate other Uighurs who wish to escape,” Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, told AFP news agency.
"There is a direct relationship between China's repressive policies and the increase in those trying to escape."
Xinjiang has been the focus of a year-long government crackdown on “terrorism driven by religious extremism”, which has included the banning of the burka in Urumqi, the regional capital.
It is difficult for Uighurs to obtain a passport; state media has claimed “separatists” have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State.
Rights groups say the government is violating the Uighurs' right to worship and its hardline policy is driving Uighur youth to extremism.
Since China’s Ministry of Public Security set up a special task force to patrol the country’s borders last April, some 350 alleged people smugglers have been arrested and 850 people attempting to flee across the border have been detained.
The smuggling is “mainly organised abroad and controlled behind the scenes ... in efforts to spread religious extremism, and bewitch and incite people to flee abroad to take part in jihadist activities,” a statement on the ministry’s website said.
Last year hundreds of people claiming to be Turkish but believed to be Uighur were detained in Thailand. In November nine Uighurs and 10 Turkish nationals were arrested in Shanghai in a fake passport plot. The Turks, who had entered China legally, provided the Uighurs forged passports for 60,000 yuan (£6,400) each.
I think we should let them cross the border and your police will handle them just like the last time
