{"id":32900,"date":"2013-03-09T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=32900 "},"modified":"2013-03-09T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:10:00","slug":"32900-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=32900","title":{"rendered":"Knife attack in China\\’s Xinjiang province kills four"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four people have been killed and eight injured in a knife attack in western China’s Xinjiang, officials said.<\/div>
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The attack happened in Korla, the centre of Xinjiang’s oil industry, on Thursday.<\/div>
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A suspect had been arrested, regional spokeswoman Hou Hanmin said. She could not confirm the ethnicity of the suspect or the victims.<\/div>
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In 2009, riots between Xinjiang’s Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese killed nearly 200 people.<\/div>
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Few details have been given about the incident – one report said several attackers were involved. Some reports suggest they were from the Uighur ethnic minority, but these cannot be independently verified.<\/div>
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Another report suggested that it was a criminal incident related to a gambling parlour.<\/div>
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The attack comes as China’s leaders meet at the National People’s Congress, in the final stage of the country’s once-in-a-decade leadership change.<\/div>
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Xinjiang party chief Zhang Chunxian said the situation in Xinjiang was improving<\/div>
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Speaking at the congress yesterday, Xinjiang party chief Zhang Chunxian said: “Although the situation [in Xinjiang] remains tough, the overall stability in Xinjiang is improving and under control.”<\/div>
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Some rumours on the internet were fabricated, and some disputes in Xinjiang exaggerated to sabotage national unity, he added.<\/div>
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Uighurs have long complained that they are being displaced by Han Chinese as Beijing invests heavily in the western region – which it sees as a gateway to Central Asia, the BBC’s Martin Patience in Beijing<\/div>
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Since the 2009 riots, which was China’s deadliest ethnic violence in decades, tensions have been high and armed police patrol parts of the streets.<\/div>
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Exiled Uighur groups accuse the Chinese state of trying to crush their culture and subjugate their religion.<\/div>
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But the Beijing authorities say they are fighting only violent extremists who want to take over the region and form an independent Islamic state.<\/div>
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