A large group of Han Chinese walk up a street carry sticks and shovels on the streets in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province Photo: AFP/GETTY From Yahoo News/AP:
URUMQI, China – Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes, meat cleavers and sticks rampaged through the streets Tuesday as ethnic tensions worsened in China's oil-rich Xinjiang territory, forcing officials to declare a curfew.
The new violence in Xinjiang's capital erupted only a few hours after the city's top officials told reporters the streets in Urumqi were returning to normal following a riot that killed 156 people Sunday. The officials also said more than 1,000 suspects had been rounded up since the spasm of attacks by Muslim Uighurs against Han Chinese, the ethnic majority.
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More News On The Unrest In Xinjiang
China lockdown as decades of suspicion boil over -- The Guardian
Factory Clash Triggered Ethnic Collision -- Wall Street Journal
How unrest in China flared to violence -- Times Online
Ethnic mobs overrun Chinese city -- BBC
Eyewtiness: tensions high on the streets of Urumqi -- The Telegraph
In Latest Upheaval, China Applies New Strategies to Control Flow of Information -- New York Times
China's Uighur Conundrum -- John Gittings, The Guardian opinion
Xinjiang: From Class Struggle to Ethnic Strife -- Jian Junbo, Asia Times opinion
My Comment: Even with thousands of police and soldiers on the street, the Chinese Government is still not capable of stopping the violence. Martial law/curfews will need to be imposed (if not already).
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