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China's Xinjiang hit by violence




The city of Urumqi in China's restive Xinjiang region has been hit by violence with cars burned and traffic blocked, Chinese state media says.

An unspecified number of people also attacked passers-by and damaged property, Xinhua news agency said.

Police had rushed to the area to maintain order, the agency said.

Xinjiang, in the far west of China, is home to about eight million Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence.

The Xinhua report did not say how many people were involved, or suggest a motive.

But an eyewitness told a Reuters source in Beijing that the rioters were Uighurs, numbering in their thousands.

Uighur activists in Japan and Germany said the same - and said that there had been arrests, AFP news agency said.

China enforces tight controls in Xinjiang and rejects calls from its Muslim Uighur people for self-rule.

The US state department accuses Beijing of human rights abuses in the region.

In a report released earlier this year, it said that "severe cultural and religious repression" of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang had increased.

Dissidents were being detained and harassed, and tight controls on freedom of speech and the internet were being maintained, it said.

Uighur separatists, meanwhile, have waged a low-level campaign against Chinese rule for decades and there are sporadic outbreaks of violence.

But campaigners accuse China of exaggerating the threat to justify tough security clampdowns in the region.

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[ErgenekondiyarBakir]

FREEDOM EAST TURKISTAN

[osmanli0709]

TERÖRRIST CHINE

[jedalo777]

HAN are fucking Rateaters

[nyckhusan]

These events of July 05,2009 were provoked by Shaoguan killings of 56 uyghurs ( mostly from Kashgar Region) who were sent to Guandun province by Xinjiang Government. Unwillingness of local police to punish crimers and State cover of event by media who reported about only 2 killed uyghurs points out to real crimer and instigater of ethnic conflicts-Communist Party of China. What this Party can bring to the World? It holds power only by coping Capitalism system and raising Nationalism= Fascism.

[TheJason999s]

free uyhurs my ass... they are living in china not turkey, heck they shouldnt even be living in china in the first place. the chinese government should just sent them back to turkey and give the city to han chinese.

[KAYALI64]

FUCK CHINA !!!!!

[almatinec111]

Free Uyghurs!!!!

[EmperorTiger]

the only way for East turkistan to be free is to remain under Chinese rule.

[EmperorTiger]

pigs can easily fly

[jonnyLeeOnSG]

maybe pigs will fly

[EmperorTiger]

yea maybe but East Turkistan will still be free under and Chinese rule.

[EmperorTiger]

East Turkistan is free and will always be free until separated from China.