2009年7月18日星期六

Yahoo! News: World - China

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - China


Chinese police shot dead Urumqi 'mobsters': state media (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 12:37 PM PDT

People pass the burnt wreck of a car in a street in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province on July 6, 2009. Chinese police shot dead 12 AFP - Chinese police shot dead 12 "mobsters" during unrest in Urumqi on July 5, state media reported Sunday, quoting a local official saying the action was taken to prevent further bloodshed.


China says police shot dead 12 Uighurs this month (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 07:16 AM PDT

Armed Chinese paramilitary policemen in riot gear stand guard at a roadblock during Friday's Muslim prayers near the Dong Kuruk Bridge mosque in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region July 17, 2009. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - Chinese police shot dead 12 Uighur rioters in Xinjiang this month, regional governor Nuer Baikeli said on Saturday, in a rare government admission of deaths inflicted by security forces.


Report: Group tied to al-Qaida threatens China (AP)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 06:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, a Uighur woman faces off Chinese paramilitary police in Urumqi, China. A U.S. group that monitors militant Web sites said an offshoot of a secessionist group with ties to al-Qaida is threatening revenge Thursday, July 16, 2009 on China for the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in clashes this month. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)AP - A group linked to al-Qaida that threatened to disrupt last year's Beijing Olympics is vowing to avenge Muslim Uighurs who died in ethnic violence with Chinese earlier this month.


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