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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| Renewed violence in Xinjiang |
| 2008-08-12 |
| Three security staff have been stabbed to death in China's Xinjiang region, the third attack there in eight days. Assailants killed the men at a checkpoint near the city of Kashgar, Chinese state media said. Sixteen police officers were killed in an attack in Kashgar earlier this month, but state media said there was no evidence linking the two attacks. Xinjiang is home to many Muslim Uighurs, some of whom want independence in the region they call East Turkestan. There has been a rise in violent incidents in Xinjiang in recent months, which China has blamed on separatists seeking to disrupt the Olympic Games. Suspected Muslim separatists also launched a series of bomb attacks in Kuqa, in southern Xinjiang, on Sunday, which left 11 dead. Tuesday's attack happened at a checkpoint about 30 km (18 miles) from the border city of Kashgar. Attackers - it is not clear how many - jumped out of a passing vehicle and stabbed the men to death. Three men died and a fourth was injured, Xinhua news agency said. News of the attack emerged hours after Chinese state media announced that the situation in Kuqa, scene of Sunday's attacks, had returned to normal. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #2 Let the Muslims mess with the chicoms. They only THINK they hate us (the west). |
| Posted by: DLR 2008-08-12 18:24 |
| #1 I don't know a damned thing about Uighurs, but my first impulse is that China should nip this in the bud. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-08-12 17:27 |