Xinjiang erupts again, many killed

[jha]

Be it rioters or, terrorists..Those who kill innocent people , must be brought down with iron hand...

 

[xLancex]

Xinjiang police attack was terrorism, China says​

Chinese officials have blamed Monday's deadly attack at a police station in Xinjiang province on "terrorists" from the ethnic Uighur minority.

A local official told state media that one of the attackers had unfurled a banner with separatist slogans.

But Uighur activists said the security forces had provoked clashes by opening fire on a peaceful demonstration.

Officials said several police and a number of civilians were killed in the violence in the city of Hotan.

State media reports claimed a mob attacked the police station and took a number of people hostage.

Security forces managed to rescue some of the hostages, but others were killed.

The state-run Global Times quoted local official Hou Hanmin as saying it was "an organised terrorist attack".

"The rioters carried explosive devices and grenades. They first broke into the offices of the local administration of industry and commerce and the taxation bureau that are close to the police station," he said.

"When they realised the targets were wrong, they started to attack the police station from the ground floor to the second floor where they showed a flag with separatist messages."

But a Germany-based exile group, World Uyghur Congress, said 14 Uighurs were killed and 70 arrested after police opened fire on a peaceful protest, leading to fighting between the two sides.

"In order to avoid a further destabilisation of the situation, the Chinese authorities should immediately stop the systematic repression," the group said in a statement.

The majority of Xinjiang's population is ethnically Uighur - who are Muslims with strong cultural ties to Central Asia.

They have complained that waves of Han Chinese migrants have marginalised their culture.

In 2009, riots erupted in Xinjiang in which nearly 200 people died after tensions flared between the Uighurs and the Han Chinese.

BBC News - Xinjiang police attack was terrorism, China says

 

[Juice]

Why western media still label them as rioters instead of terrorists???

They are absolutely terrorists!!!

It is known here that there are Uighur terrorist. You live in the US, and you know of it. Think man.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

I wonder if al Qaeda will threaten China like last time.

I do remember a terrorist saying he will fight for muslim rights in China.

 

[Indrajith]

Would appreciate comments of people from china's close friend

 

[DkBose]

where the chinese who says we dont have single armed insurgency??

 

[Ganges Zephyr]

@ Chinese members

Yes, that was a terrorist act. So, how does it feel??? We feel pain and anger
This is what you support when you support Pakistan
Think about it.

 

[huzihaidao12]

@ Chinese members

Yes, that was a terrorist act. So, how does it feel??? We feel pain and anger
This is what you support when you support Pakistan
Think about it.

What you feel the news from the West? We are different and the West, China's position is clearly against terrorism, while India? To stop the little things, then China will be able to advise Pakistan.

 

[huzihaidao12]

where the chinese who says we dont have single armed insurgency??

No, if you have some common sense.

 

[PteX]

Rioters? More like terrorists.

 

[Guest01]

Yes rioters hold civilians hostage and kill them with knives. Doesn't matter though. Chinese lives are cheap, right?

Look no lives are cheap. And for a moment think that the Uighur lives are also Chinese right?

Riots break out with unrest. Poorly or even unarmed people take to streets and it is a mob who turns violent. And you know that the terrorist do not come unarmed. Terrorism is carefully planned and executed while the riot is mostly a spontaneous eruption of public protest in response to a general grievance.

 

[arihant]

I am always against Terrorism. But remember Terrorism is same on both sides of coin. If people start saying this act is good terrorism (freedom fighter) and another is bad terrorism (al qiada, LeT, HuJi) than its going to cost you lot than thought.

 

[Guest01]

Just like how the 9/11 perpetrators and Mumbai attacks perpetrators killed thousands of people due to "hopeless" struggles against "imperialism"?

Killing people is no excuse.

So are you conceding that China is imperialist?

On the topic, forceful land aquisition and religious supression can be a really dangerous mix for revolt in the public sentiment. May be if China does it with more sensitivity then it could work out better. Unfortunate losses of lives though.

 

[somebozo]

Its true that Chinese muslims' freedom is restrained,well even Hans dont get full freedom,Muslims are even worse and underdeveloped.

They are thousand times better than Kashmir muslims in India which are being guarded by world largest concentration of armed forces per land mass!

The ughairs are self professed Muslims..no Islamic school of though admissions their heretic religion!

I have come across of these ughairi sufis on a business trips to Saudi arabia..they are vigilant, rough and provocative to deal with. The issues lies in their culture and upbringing..being turkic also means being aggressive by nature.

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

China does a very good thing to keep these events as low key as possible.