140 Dead Following China Protests
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 6th, 2009 4:42 am by HL
140 Dead Following China Protests
Chinese state media are reporting 140 people dead and more than 800 injured from what China Daily describes as “unrest” on the part of Uighur “outlaws.” Those figures and the nature of the protests are fiercely disputed by Uighur groups abroad who say police fired on peaceful demonstrators.
Uighurs are a minority ethnic group of Muslims who live mostly in China’s northwest frontier.
BBC:
Several hundred people were arrested after a protest, in the city of Urumqi on Sunday, turned violent.
Beijing says Uighurs went on the rampage but one exiled Uighur leader says police fired on students.
The protest was reportedly prompted by a deadly fight between Uighurs and Han Chinese in southern China last month.
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