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Four dead in police station clash in China's Xinjiang
At least four people including a police officer were killed when a crowd
attacked a police station in China's restive Xinjiang region on Monday, the
official Xinhua news agency reported.
The attackers, who were apparently from the region's mainly Muslim Uighur
minority, set fire to the building in the remote city of Hotan in the far
northwest and took a number of hostages, the report said.
Two of the dead were hostages, one was a security worker and the fourth was
the police officer, the report said, citing sources at the Ministry of
Public Security.
It said police had shot and killed an unspecified number of attackers, but
gave no further details and said the situation had now been brought under
control.
Police "quickly converged on the scene and shot a number of rioters while
freeing six hostages", the report said, citing the ministry sources. The
injured -- including a security worker -- were taken to hospital, it added.
A spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress said the clashes
erupted after a group of Uighurs tried to take away a number of police
officers so they could demand the release of family members who had been
arrested.
"The Uighurs rushed to the police station to take away some police officers
and ask them to release the Uighurs who had been arrested," Dilxat Raxit
told AFP by telephone.
"A clash ensued. Police then opened fire. Thirteen people have been detained
by police, and one was seriously injured."
Raxit said women and students were among the group, and urged Chinese police
to "respect the political demands of Uighurs", pointing to religious
restrictions in Hotan and the removal of land from Uighur residents.
A hotel employee in Hotan told AFP by telephone the clash had happened in an
area of the city dominated by Uighurs, adding, "us Han Chinese very rarely
go there".
The far-western Xinjiang region, whose Uighur minority has seethed under
Chinese rule for decades, has experienced several violent bouts of unrest in
recent years.
The worst came in July 2009 when Uighurs in the regional capital Urumqi
vented decades of resentment with savage attacks on members of China's
dominant Han group.
Han mobs took to the streets in the following days seeking revenge, but a
second bloodletting was averted.
Nearly 200 people were killed and 1,700 injured in all, the government says,
in the worst ethnic violence to hit China in decades.
According to Amnesty International, hundreds of people have been detained
and prosecuted since those riots, with several dozen sentenced to death or
executed and many more sentenced to long prison terms.
Hotan, which also is variously known as Khotan or as Hetian in Chinese, has
seen its share of unrest in recent years.
In March 2008, authorities there said extremist forces tried to incite an
uprising in a marketplace. Uighur exiles quoting sources in the city said up
to 1,000 people were involved in two protests.
China is composed of 56 different ethnic groups, some of which agitate under
Communist Party rule, resulting in sporadic bouts of unrest erupting in
different parts of the country.
In May and June, thousands of ethnic Mongols in the country's north staged a
series of protests against resource exploitation and environmental damage
in the region.
Tensions also run deep in Tibet, where many Tibetans accuse the government
of trying to dilute their culture, citing concerns over what they view as
increasing domination by the Han.
Disquiet spilled over into violent anti-government riots in Tibet's capital
Lhasa in March 2008, which then spread to neighbouring provinces with
significant Tibetan populations.
But the Chinese government says it has markedly improved living standards
for its ethnic minorities.
Xinjiang -- a vast, arid but resource-rich region that borders Central Asia |
