37 civilians, 59 'terrorists' killed in earlier China Attack
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[Quote=yahoo]Chinese state media said Sunday that 37 civilians and 59 "terrorists" had been killed in an attack earlier in the week in Xinjiang, home to China's mainly Muslim Uighur minority.
The total toll makes the incident by far the bloodiest since rioting involving Uighurs and members of China's Han majority killed around 200 people in the regional capital Urumqi in 2009.
Police had arrested 215 "terrorists" while 13 civilians were also wounded in Monday's attack on a police station and government offices in Shache county, or Yarkand in the Uighur language, in Kashgar prefecture, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
It was the latest in a series of violent incidents over recent months in and connected with the vast resource-rich region, where rights groups accuse China's government of cultural and religious repression they say fuels unrest.
News of the clash first emerged late on Tuesday when Xinhua reported that dozens of people had been killed or wounded by knife-wielding assailants.
In its report Sunday, Xinhua said that 35 of the dead civilians were Han Chinese while two were Uighurs.
"A gang armed with knives and axes attacked a police station and government offices," it said, with some later moving on to another township, "attacking civilians and smashing vehicles as they passed".
"The gangsters also set roadblocks and stopped vehicles passing by, before slashing passengers indiscriminately and forcing civilians to join them in the terror attack," it added, citing police.[/quote]
The "Religion of peace" AGAIN.
I came in this thread expecting it to be Xinjiang. Situation seems pretty fucked up.
While I support a free Xinjiang, murdering people isn't the way to get that.
[QUOTE=antimonycat;45578959]The "Religion of peace" AGAIN.[/QUOTE]
i think its more of a regime of intolerance in this case
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