Uighurs claim 400 killed in unrest in western China
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Police killed 400 Uighurs in the capital of China’s Xinjiang region during ethnic unrest there, exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer claimed yesterday.Ms Kadeer said Uighur sources within “East Turkestan”, the separatist name for the northwest region, had told her 400 Uighurs had died “as a result of police shootings and beatings” in Urumqi since violence erupted there on Sunday.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal Asia, the president of the World Uighur Congress said unrest was spreading across the region and unconfirmed reports indicated more than 100 Uighurs had been killed in Kashgar, another major city in Xinjiang.
Chinese authorities have said 156 people died in Sunday’s violence in Urumqi. They have not made clear how many of the victims were Han Chinese and how many were Uighur, or how they died.
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TumenTourGuide
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Lessons to be learned from western China are important.
Anybody who has been to Tibet can sympathize with the
Uighers. They've been struggling for a very long time.
Right now we should send a letter to every senator in
America asking them to draft some kind of resolution.Everybody should look down the road. What if the 400
Uighers killed in Urumqi become 4000 Tibetans or maybe
North Korean refugees living up in northeastern China?
Aren't you worried that China is becoming more brutal? - 7 months ago
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