{"id":45460,"date":"2015-02-16T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=45460 "},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:32:00","slug":"45460-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=45460","title":{"rendered":"\\’Deaths And Injuries\\’ Follow Clashes Between Uyghurs and Police in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Map showing Hotan’s Guma county.<\/div>
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Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have imposed an information blackout in Hotan prefecture after a violent incident on Friday involving ethnic minority Uyghurs and police, overseas rights groups and local sources said.<\/div>
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At least seven people died and at least seven more were injured in the clashes, in which a young Uyghur man reportedly set off an explosive device, an employee who answered the phone at a hospital in Hotan’s Guma (in Chinese, Pishan) county told RFA.<\/div>
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“There were seven or eight [injured] people brought here,” the Pishan County Hospital employee said, adding: “There was a bomb.”<\/div>
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“There were seven or eight [deaths] or thereabouts,” he said.<\/div>
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Asked if the bomb was detonated by a Uyghur youth, according to online reports, the employee replied: “Uhuh.”<\/div>
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But he hung up the phone when asked for further details.<\/div>
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Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC), said his group had also received reports of a violent incident in Guma on Friday.<\/div>
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“Our sources tell us that some people showed resistance to armed security personnel, which led to deaths and injuries,” Raxit said.<\/div>
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“But it’s very hard to get concrete figures, owing to the government’s tight information blackout.”<\/div>
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He added: “We are certain that clashes occurred between local Uyghur people and the police, and that these led to deaths and injuries.”<\/div>
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A business owner in Guma’s county town said the area has been under tight security since the attack.<\/div>
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“The riot police are here, with their batons, shields and sirens,” the business owner said. “If any emergency arises, I can raise the alarm immediately, and my shop will be immediately surrounded by police [within] five minutes.”<\/div>
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“There are police guarding the larger supermarkets,” he said. “There are frequent patrols, one every 10 minutes, and there are a lot of security personnel on all the major routes into the town.”<\/div>
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“They are checking Uyghurs and Han Chinese pretty much alike.”<\/div>
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Last October, two Uyghurs went on a stabbing spree in Pishan, killing three police officers and three government officials before they were gunned down by the authorities, local officials said at the time.<\/div>
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Abdurehim Tuniyaz, 25, and Ablikim Abdurehim, 26, may have been mounting a revenge attack over the death in police custody of one of their brothers, one source said.<\/div>
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The ruling Chinese Communist Party last year launched an anti-terror campaign in Xinjiang following a string of deadly attacks blamed by Beijing on Uyghur separatists and Islamist insurgents seeking to establish an independent state.<\/div>
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But rights groups accuse the Chinese authorities of heavy-handed rule in Xinjiang, including violent police raids on Uyghur households, restrictions on Islamic practices, and curbs on the culture and language of the Uyghur people.<\/div>
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Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness in Xinjiang despite China’s ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.<\/div>
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Reported by Qiao Long for RFA’s Mandarin Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.<\/div>
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