2009年7月19日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - China


China says recent Urumqi unrest was premeditated (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 08:23 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo taken on Sunday, July 5, 2009 and released by the Xinjiang Government Press Office on Tuesday, July 7, 2009, a body and a burnt out car are left in a street following a riot in Urumqi, China. Police killed 12 people during the July 5 rioting in the western city of Urumqi, a senior official said, a rare acknowledgment by the government that security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic clashes to hit the region in decades. (AP Photo/Xinjiang Government Press Office, File)AP - The Chinese government acknowledged for the first time that police killed 12 people during July 5 unrest in western China but put the blame squarely on rioters, saying they stockpiled weapons and planned synchronized attacks on targets across the city of Urumqi.


China says police killed 12 people in Urumqi unrest (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 06:47 AM PDT

A Chinese soldier stands guard outside the Grand Bazaar in the Uighur district of Urumqi. Chinese police shot dead 12 people during unrest in Xinjiang, the government said in a rare admission security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic violence in decades.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Chinese police shot dead 12 people during unrest in the western Xinjiang region, the government said Sunday, in a rare admission security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic violence in decades.


China rioters planned attacks: state media (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2009 04:55 AM PDT

The burnt wreckage of a bus on a street in Urumqi on July 6. Chinese police shot dead 12 people during unrest in Xinjiang, the government said in a rare admission security forces opened fire in the worst ethnic violence in decades.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - Deadly ethnic unrest in China's Muslim Xinjiang region was planned and coordinated in a bid to ignite violence across the regional capital Urumqi, state media reported on Sunday.


Xinjiang riots pre-planned at 50 places: state media (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jul 2009 10:09 PM 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 - Ethnic rioting in China's far western region of Xinjiang was well planned and co-ordinated to take place at more than 50 locations across the regional capital Urumqi, the official People's Daily reported Sunday.


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