156 Die During Riots in Xinjiang, China
China's Xinhua News reports that at least 156 people died in the city of Urumqi, Xinjiang Province in ethnic riots between the local Uighur people and Han Chinese immigrants.
The violence has also left at least 800 people injured.
The Uighurs are a Muslim and ethnic-Turkic people, with a distinct culture and history from the Han Chinese majority. Beijing asserted control over the Uighur region after the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949; some Uighurs have been pushing for independence ever since.
What sparked yesterday's violence is not entirely clear. Rumors are swirling about violence against women of both ethnicities as the source of the fighting. Some reports also cite fighting between the two groups in southern China in June, or conflict over factory jobs.
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China kill???
How do you find it???
Are you at the scene???
Are you writing a novel so you needn’t find the truth?156 people were killed and most of them are Han Chinese.They will never know why they were killed.Are their lives cheaper than any other person???
楼上同胞，我觉得这句话的主语是“Riots in Xinjiang, China”，不是“China”，否则是作者用错第三人称单数？她的这篇报道有立场，但还没有到恶意歪曲的地步。
lie! Shameless!
lie! Shameless!
lie! Shameless!
lie! Shameless!
My sources include China’s official Xinhua news and western news sources.
Again, I did not specify if Han Chinese or Uighurs were killed, since I don’t know. Probably people from both groups died.
Please read carefully and think before you post comments.
911 in NY,US kill 3000
Oh good! Now we are getting into wacky conspiracy theories.
Well, folks, I appreciate the page-views, anyway.
Oh, and thank you very much “another Chinese” for trying to explain my meaning!
I changed the headline to try to make it clearer.
Thanks for translating.
Returned to American Indians
Returned to American Indians
911 US KILL 3000
Yes, ww, Chinese treatment of the Uighurs is terrible, just like European-American treatment of the American Indians. Our Congress has officially apologized for its crimes against the American Indians.
And yes, it was awful that 3,000 Americans died on 9/11. Thank you for your sympathy.
And of course, Han Chinese never committed genocide against the Uyghurs, unlike the whites to American Indians. The Manchu, however, did decimate the Uyghurs in the 1750s as a response to the Uyghur jihad at the time.
Part of the problem in Xinjiang and in much of the rest of the world is that the relatively recent European idea of nation-states with fixed borders has been imposed on the whole world.
These borders cut ethnic groups in half, stop people from moving away in times of conflict, drought or other disaster, and force traditional foes to live together under a single political system.
Islamic jihad has been going on long before the rise of Europe. And what happened in Xinjiang is a part of their global jihad. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have those attacks on Uyghur women in short skirts simply because it’s against the religious fundamentalist dress-code.