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Kína "terrorista támadásnak" minősítette a hszicsiangi zavargásokat, az áldozatok száma 35

2013. június 28./Reuters/Tibet Sun/TibetPress

Jelenleg csak angolul olvasható. Magyarul később.

http://www.tibetsun.com/news/2013/06/28/china-calls-xinjiang-unrest-a-terrorist-attack-ups-death-toll-to-35

By Sui-Lee Wee and Li Hui

China’s state media has raised to 35 the death toll from unrest this week in far western East Turkistan (Ch: Xinjiang) region, and denounced the clashes, the deadliest in four years, as a “terrorist attack”.

East Turkistan is home to a large Muslim Uighur community and violence focusing on its discontent had been confined recently to southern districts. The altercations in Shanshan county on Wednesday marked a return of unrest to East Turkistan’s north.

Many Uyghurs, Muslims who speak a Turkic language, chafe at what they call Chinese government restrictions on their culture, language and religion. China says it grants Uyghurs wide-ranging freedoms and accuses extremists of separatism.

On Wednesday, gangs with knives attacked a police station and a government building and set fire to police cars. Twenty-four people died in clashes with police, including 16 Uighurs, state news agency Xinhua said.

According to Xinhua’s latest dispatch on Thursday night, eight more died in the police response. It called the incident a “violent terrorist attack” and said the overall situation was now “on the whole, stable”.

An officer at Shanshan county’s public security, or police, bureau told Reuters by telephone that the cause of the riots and the ethnic origin of the attackers remained unclear.

East Turkistan government officials could not be reached.

A resident of Shanshan, speaking by telephone, said police officers were patrolling town streets, though he was unable to say if their presence was heavier than usual.

A clash two months ago in Xinjiang’s south, involving axes, knives and at least one gun, culminated in a house being burned down, with 21 people dead. The local government also described that incident as a “terrorist attack”.

Uyghurs make up 88 percent of residents in Shanshan county, according to the Global Times, a tabloid owned by the Communist Party’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily.

Dilxat Raxit, the Sweden-based spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, blamed the “continued suppression and provocation” in East Turkistan for the conflict.

Duncan Innes-Ker of the Economist Intelligence Unit said the latest deaths highlighted the failure of Chinese authorities to resolve the region’s ethnic and religious tensions.

“The government needs to come up with a new approach to dealing with ethnic and religious strains in China’s minority regions, as its past efforts to address them with tight security and economic development have been a manifest failure,” Innes-Ker said in a statement.

The Global Times renewed accusations by the authorities that “overseas terrorist forces” were to blame.

“Many foreign forces would like to see turbulence in East Turkistan, but those with a little analytical sense know this can hardly be reality,” it said in an editorial.

Wednesday’s unrest was the deadliest in East Turkistan since July 2009, when nearly 200 people were killed in riots pitting Uyghurs against ethnic Chinese in the region’s capital Urumqi, about 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Shanshan.

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