Ethnic Uighurs waited with sticks behind a barricade in their neighborhood in Urumqi on Wednesday. Nir Elias/ReutersCommunist Leaders Vow Stability After China Riots -- Yahoo News/AP
URUMQI, China – China's top communist leaders vowed to maintain stability in the west of the country in their first public comments Thursday on the ethnic riots that killed more than 150 people. They accused overseas forces of orchestrating the violence.
An urgent nine-member Politburo Standing Committee meeting, led by President Hu Jintao, called on Communist Party members and officials at all levels to mobilize to restore order, promising punishment to rioters and leniency to participants who were misled by agitators.
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More News On The Violence In the Chinese Province Of Xinjuang
China's Hu says maintaining stability paramount -- Yahoo News/Reuters
China keeps tight security grip on Urumqi -- Yahoo News/AFP
China ramps up efforts to stop deadly ethnic violence -- L.A. Times
Calm returns to riot city as troops patrol the streets -- Times Online
China's Urumqi Returning to Normal, Following Bloody Violence -- Voice of America
Urumqi Residents Hope Ethnic Tensions Will End Soon -- Voice of America
Accounts of violence in Xinjiang -- BBC
Central Asia evacuates citizens from riot-torn Xinjang -- Reuters
Video: Shocking footage shows brutality of China riots -- The Telegraph
China begins the hunt for Xinjiang rioters -- The Telegraph
China Warns of Executions as Riots Ebb -- New York Times
Beijing threatens to execute 'key rioters' -- Washington Times
China's ethnic tinderbox -- BBC
In Wake of Turmoil In China, Minorities Face Painful Options -- Washington Post
Strife shows ethnic tension China hopes to ignore -- AP
China extends hand to foreign media, but tightens grip elsewhere -- AFP
The Uighurs’ cry has echoed round the world -- Times Online commentary
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