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Riots in Xinjiang, western China, ethnically divided, Wednesday (06/26/2013), killing at least 27 people. Similarly, state media said. "Seventeen people have been killed before police shot dead 10 rioters," Xinhua news agency said, as quoted by AFP.
The report comes after 21 people died in violence in the region last April.
China.org news site reported, riots took place around 06.00 am in town Lukqun in Shanshan region in Turpan Prefecture. Location clash was about 100 kilometers from the city of Turpan Desert and approximately 280 kilometers from the capital city of Urumqi.
Mob armed with knives attacked the municipal police station, a local government building and a construction site. They stab people and burning police cars. Similarly, officials said Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China.
Of 17 people were killed before police opened fire, nine of whom are members of the police or security guards and eight civilians.
Three people were arrested rioters at the scene and police are pursuing those who fled.
Xinjiang, which covers the area twice the size of Turkey, is home to approximately nine million ethnic Uighur minority largely Muslim. Many of them complain of persecution on the basis of religion and culture of the Government of China.
The area is often hit by riots. In April, 21 people were killed in clashes between police and local communities in the area. Chinese authorities in blaming the case on a "terrorist" recently jailed nine people in the region as they relate to "religious extremism".
More than 100 people on a motorcycle and brandishing a knife attacked a police station in Xinjiang region, in western China, state media reported on Saturday.
Attacks in the city of Hotan, a remote desert region inhabited by ethnic Uighurs, came two days after deadly violence in the region in four years that claimed 35 lives. China called the incident "a terrorist attack".
Reuters reported that Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs who speak Turkish. China says it gives freedom and blamed Uighur extremists intend to break away.
Hostility between the ethnic majority Han Chinese and Uighur be a big challenge for the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. President Xi Jinping who rose to power in March has called for unity all ethnic groups in China.
In the latest incident, "the rioters" gathered at religious places before riding a motorcycle to attack a police station in Hotan, Moyu county, said the Global Times daily newspaper owned by the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party.
Authorities are counting the number of victims and search for suspects, said the Global Times.
In a separate incident, as many as 200 people trying to "trigger a scene" in the main shopping district in Hotan, the daily said. The newspaper reported police managed to control the situation.
Chinese authorities have increased security in Urumqi, the capital of the region, the daily said.
Kasghar People's Court sentenced two men to death for post-riot that occurred in Xinjiang, China.
In addition to the death penalty, the court also handed down jail terms ranging from nine years old to life to three others allegedly involved in the incident.
Riots took place on April 23 in Kashgar and resulted in 21 people dead.
Not only civilians killed, but also 15 security personnel died in the riots in Xinjiang.
The Chinese government in the post-riot statement blaming the so-called "terrorists" as the cause.
The Chinese government-owned media said, a person sentenced to death helped the establishment of "terrorist groups".
In the latter case, two people were sentenced to death, Moses Hesen and Rehman Hupur assessed convicted of murder and terrorism.
Xinjiang is a region inhabited by ethnic minorities, mostly Muslim Uighurs.
Population they account for about 45 percent of the total population in the province.
However, in line with the recent arrival of ethnic Han Chinese residents, they said they were increasingly marginalized traditional culture.
Government in a number of cases of violence in Xinjiang has always blamed Uighur extremist groups accused of demanding action against the autonomy of their region.
Exaggerating the threat
Meanwhile, Beijing accused Uighur activists exaggerate the threat so that they can act repressive.
BBC tried to visit the site and clarify a number of events unrest, but hindered by local security officials.
The police brought the BBC into government offices before finally asked to abandon the region.
During this time it is difficult to verify reports of violence in Xinjiang.
Foreign journalists entering the region will face a number of intimidation while performing tasks inspect riot report says the government will fight.
Never Xinjiang Uighur Muslim humility 'Live Ramadan
never-ever-solemn-live-ramadanPemerintah China using subtle strategies to prevent Muslim Uighur mosques and fasting. They came home umah-Uighur Muslim during Ramadan to give them fruits and beverages by force in order to break their fast eating.
VIOLENCE violence waged by the Chinese government on the Uighurs in Xinjiang, China, do not stop. Ahead of Ramadan even rampant. Last month, at least 27 people were killed in clashes with security forces Muslim Uighurs and ethnic Han majority, as reported by the newspaper The New York Times (26/6).
Konfrontas broke early morning local time after dawn prayers in Lukqun City, Xinjiang Province. Unsheathed swords attacked a police station, damaging government buildings, burning cars and officers. Those killed included nine security.
A spokesman for the World Uighur Congress be one of the initiators of the establishment of an Islamic state Uighurs say this happened because of clashes triggered massive detentions of ethnic minorities in recent months.
"This split did not happen by accident," said a spokesman Dilxat Raxit Uighur living in Sweden. According to him there is a deliberate sweep clean and quell the ethnic Chinese from the earth. The man disappeared and police ignored me about their existence. It is believed Raxit as intentional.
Muslim Uighur East Turkistan was speaking immigrants from Turkey. As these ethnic immigrants experienced a rapid increase in welfare to make Han jealous. The major tribes as China. Indeed Uighur-Han conflict has begun to subside little by little and they are relatively quiet. But there just wanted warring parties.
Chinese government clearly worried by the development of Uighur. Until now, the population increased to 46 percent in Xinjiang, the Han population while only 40 percent. While the center of the conflict broke out in Lukqun, Uighur has 30 thousand inhabitants or 90 percent. They are the majority of Muslims, which is why various methods are used to prevent any religious activity deemed capable of damaging national stability.
This year the Chinese government appears to be using subtle strategies to prevent Muslim Uighur mosques and fasting. They came home umah-Uighur Muslim during Ramadan to give them fruits and beverages by force in order to break their fast eating, as reported onislam.net (16/7).
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Human rights groups have condemned the Chinese government gave prison sentences on two Muslim Uighurs unknown crimes after being deported from Cambodia where they have requested asylum, Reuters reported on Friday, January 27th.
"Imprisonment these people, who were forcibly deported from their refuge, should serve as a wake-up call to the world about the brutal treatment of the Uighurs seeking asylum," Uighur American Association president Alim Seytoff said in a statement posted on the website The advocacy group.
Back in December 2009, 18 Muslim Uighurs seeking asylum in Cambodia, China deported at the request of the Cambodian government after ignoring objections from the United States and international rights groups.
Under stressful circumstances, a court in the western Xinjiang region sentenced Nurahmet Kudret, 35 years old and Islam Urayim, 32, to life in prison. Relatives of the men told the Uighur American Association and the US-based radio, Free Asia.
The men were serving their sentences in separate prisons in the capital, Urumqi, after they were convicted of crimes that are not known, the broadcaster said.
A third man, Mohammed Musa, 25, was sentenced to 17 years in October by a court in Kashgar city of Xinjiang, he said.
The three men were among a group of 20 people who sought asylum in Cambodia at the outbreak of riots between Uighurs and majority Han Chinese in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi in July 2009.
Citing rights groups, Radio Free Asia said the asylum seekers had fled persecution because they had witnessed Chinese security forces arresting and using lethal force against Uighur demonstrators during the riots in July 2009.
Xinjiang capital, Urumqi, is a bloody eruption of violence targeting the Muslim Uighurs in July 2009. In the following days, the mass of angry Han took to the streets to hurt Muslim Uighurs in China's worst ethnic violence in decades.
Unrest left nearly 200 people dead and 1,700 injured, according to government figures. But Uighurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim minority, say the toll is much higher and mainly from their community.
Chinese government has sentenced about 200 people, most of them Uighurs, over the riots and sentenced 26 of them to death
China and Cambodia have long maintained close relations, as China provided large amounts of aid to the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
Two days after Cambodia deported the Muslim Uighurs in December 2009, Chinese Vice President Xi visited Phnom Penh and signed 14 trade deals worth $ 850 million.
The Cambodian government has denied that the deportation was linked to the announcement of the Chinese loan of 1.2 billion dollars.
Based World Uighur Congress in Munich last year said that the Asian countries has repatriated at least 180 Uighurs to China since 2001.
Xinjiang and its Uighur people, a Turkish-speaking minority, a population of over eight million, continues to be the target of safety crackdown massive.
Muslims accuse the government put millions of ethnic Han in their territory with the ultimate goal of obliterating its identity and culture.
Beijing views the vast region of Xinjiang as an invaluable asset because of its strategic location, close to Central Asia and the importance of oil and gas reserves are large.
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