[quote]The death toll in a knife attack orchestrated by alleged “separatists” at a coal mine in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has climbed to at least 50 people—including five police officers—with as many as 50 injured, according to local security officials who say nine suspects are on the run.
The attack occurred on Sept. 18, when a group of knife-wielding suspects set upon security guards at the gate of the Sogan Colliery in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Bay (Baicheng) county, before targeting the mine owner’s residence and a dormitory for workers.
When police officers arrived at the mine in Terek township to control the situation, the attackers rammed their vehicles using trucks loaded down with coal, sources said.
Three sources, including a ruling Communist Party cadre from a local township government, told RFA’s Uyghur Service in recent days that at least 50 people were killed and as many as 50 injured in the attack—with most casualties suffered by the mine’s largely majority Han Chinese workers.
“The damage of the attack was very severe—that is why we are controlling [the flow of] information about the incident so strictly, lest we frighten Han migrants in Aksu,” said the cadre, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Last week, sources had estimated that at least 40 people were either killed or injured in the incident, including police officers, security guards, mine owners and managers, and attackers.
Other sources within the ethnic Uyghur exile communities in Sweden and Turkey have since put the number of dead as high as 110 and said the worker dormitory was the focus of the attack, although these accounts could not be independently verified by RFA.
Ekber Hashim, a police officer who inspected the mine’s dormitory following the incident, told RFA that “nearly all the workers who were not on shift at the time were killed or injured.”
“Some workers were sleeping while others were preparing to work when the attackers raided the building after killing the security guards,” he said.
The Sogan Colliery, consisting of three separate coal mine shafts, maintains a six-story dormitory to house its 300-400 workers—around 90 percent of whom are Han Chinese, according to official sources.
At least five policemen were also killed in the attack, including Terek township chief Wu Feng, 45, and officers Xiao Hu, 25; Zakirjan, 28; and Zayirjan Kurban, 27. The fifth officer has yet to be identified.
An auxiliary officer from the neighboring Bulung township police department told RFA that Terek township deputy police chief Kurbanjan and his assistant “survived the incident by throwing themselves into the river next to the colliery.”
“They went [to the mine] as part of a second team after five police officers, including police chief Wu Feng, were killed,” said the officer, who also declined to provide his name.
“The second team had no idea everyone in the first team had been killed when they left the station. They turned their motorcycles around and fled when they saw the dead and injured, but the attackers pursued them in trucks and they were forced to drive the bikes into the river to escape.”[/quote]
[url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/attack-09302015174319.html]Radio Free Asia[/url]
Holy shit, 50 people? Curious as to how many attackers there were.
Holy shit, not often you see a mass knifing.
Jesus..
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48878042]Holy shit, not often you see a mass knifing.[/QUOTE]
They're actually really common in China.
In confined places knife attacks are probably worse than shootings
[QUOTE]“The damage of the attack was very severe—that is why we are controlling [the flow of] information about the incident so strictly, lest we frighten Han migrants in Aksu,”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]China has vowed to crack down on the "three evils" of terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism in Xinjiang, but experts outside China say Beijing has exaggerated the threat from Uyghur "separatists" and that domestic policies are responsible for an upsurge in violence that has left hundreds dead[/QUOTE]
Not to support the terrorists but China reaps what it sows. Empires really should just die out.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;48878082]In confined places knife attacks are probably worse than shootings
Not to support the terrorists but China reaps what it sows. Empires really should just die out.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it would be great if those "separatists" who knife innocent people at their sleep would have their own country and put in power.
This seems like a vaguely relevant time to point something out I've always thought but never said: I'm pretty sure "knifing" is a term only used in video games.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;48878092]Yeah, it would be great if those "separatists" who knife innocent people at their sleep would have their own country and put in power.[/QUOTE]
People have a tendency to turn to violence when not given a voice. It doesn't justify what they do but they may not have ever resorted to such methods if China hadn't deemed them a threat and began acting more harshly than was justified at the time.
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;48878042]Holy shit, not often you see a mass knifing.[/QUOTE]
Mass knifings are not that uncommon in china.
Attacks like this happened like 1-2 times a year, for the last 8 years or so, in (or in relation to) the Xinjiang region in China.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;48878138]This seems like a vaguely relevant time to point something out I've always thought but never said: I'm pretty sure "knifing" is a term only used in video games.[/QUOTE]
uh knifing was around long since before video games even existed and im pretty sure there was an equivalent in nearly every living and dead language till date :/
[QUOTE=Mbbird;48878138]This seems like a vaguely relevant time to point something out I've always thought but never said: I'm pretty sure "knifing" is a term only used in video games.[/QUOTE]
Man those people in the 40s sure were playing a lot of video games!
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6U0iBar.png[/IMG]
Huh, neat to know. I don't mean to dispute this, but might the drop near the turn of the century be because it's more associated with vidya than other things in aware authors' work?
[QUOTE=Mbbird;48878275]Huh, neat to know. I don't mean to dispute this, but might the drop near the turn of the century be because it's more associated with vidya than other things in aware authors' work?[/QUOTE]
It peaked in the 40s cause of the War.
Then went down a bit but stayed around the same level for Vietnam and to some extent The Cold War, Falklands War and Gulf War. These wars were written about a lot, so there would be lots of books using the word "Knifing" leading into the early 2000s.
That is why we need knife control
[QUOTE=Swiket;48878031]Holy shit, 50 people? Curious as to how many attackers there were.[/QUOTE]
9 suspects, if you had read the first sentence you would have known
[QUOTE=TG2;48878582]9 suspects, if you had read the first sentence you would have known[/QUOTE]
9 suspects doesn't necessarily mean 9 perpetrators.
This wouldn't of happened if knives were banned.
[QUOTE=proch;48878527]That is why we need knife control[/QUOTE]
not really comparable since this is literally a terrorist/separatist organization perpetrating the attack, first world states worrying about gun control rarely have active military groups trying to procure territory and murder as many people as possible
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[QUOTE=Gump;48879548]9 suspects doesn't necessarily mean 9 perpetrators.[/QUOTE]
the article states multiple times that it was a group of people
[QUOTE=Toro;48879558]This wouldn't of happened if knives were banned.[/QUOTE]
buh knives weren't designated to kill, like spoons or cars.
[QUOTE=Toro;48879558]This wouldn't of happened if knives were banned.[/QUOTE]
this wouldn't have happened if the victims had knives (yes it would have, police with guns arrived on the scene and this organized group still managed to run them off and kill some, stealing their weapons)
this isn't some lone wolf or some idiots in a parking lot letting a fight get out of hand, it was an organized militarized group aimed at subverting the state
fucking knife militarization man
i bet they were using assault knifes
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[QUOTE=BrickInHead;48879693]this wouldn't have happened if the victims had knives (yes it would have, police with guns arrived on the scene and this organized group still managed to run them off and kill some, stealing their weapons)
this isn't some lone wolf or some idiots in a parking lot letting a fight get out of hand, it was an organized militarized group aimed at subverting the state[/QUOTE]
The joke > pluto > your head.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;48880100]The joke > pluto > your head.[/QUOTE]
I got it just fine. It's poking fun at people who respond to gun violence with "this wouldn't have happened if guns were banned"
to which I responded that it's an entirely different situation
Haha let's joke about the 50 fucking dead people lmao hahahha nice zing zing
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[QUOTE=Toro;48879558]This wouldn't of happened if knives were banned.[/QUOTE]
I don't even know how this would work
[QUOTE=Billy-Bobfred;48880186]Haha let's joke about the 50 fucking dead people lmao hahahha nice zing zing
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but SH doesn't have ratings :downs:
not extremely surprising, considering the political tensions in the region have been growing steadily over the last 20-30 years after the Mao era ended
the western analogous counterpart to this would probably be the southern US/Mexico borders, except this is more politically influenced rather than cartel influenced
[QUOTE=AntonioR;48878092]Yeah, it would be great if those "separatists" who knife innocent people at their sleep would have their own country and put in power.[/QUOTE]
Croatian nationalists committed genocides and Irish nationalists still shoot at cops in North Ireland. Not seeing what you're getting at.
China makes people go through checkpoints and doesn't give them rights. They're also encouraging/forcing migration to make Han the majority.
I'd love to visit Xinjiang one day, especially the far north-west where it borders Russia and Kazakhstan, but not while these horrible incidents still happen. Hopefully justice is delivered for the families of those murdered.
[QUOTE=AntonioR;48878092]Yeah, it would be great if those "separatists" who knife innocent people at their sleep would have their own country and put in power.[/QUOTE]
Riot is the language of the unheard.
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