Reply #3: Chinese mob armed with meat cleavers and iron bars take bloody revenge [View All]

[ohio2007]

Life as we know it enters the second decade of the 21st century



A Han Chinese man carries a spiked steel bar while using his cell phone to take photos as he joins a mob

of Han Chinese men attacking Uighur properties in Urumq

Chinese mob armed with meat cleavers and iron bars take bloody revenge on Uighurs

By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 5:20 PM on 07th July 2009

Han Chinese armed with iron bars, machetes and even spades spilled on to the streets today looking for Muslim Uighur targets two days after bloody ethnic clashes killed 156 and wounded more than 1,000.
Riot police used tear gas to try to break up protests in the capital of the Muslim region of Xinjiang and will enforce an overnight curfew. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
Hundreds of protesters from China's predominant Han ethnic group, many clutching meat cleavers, metal pipes and wooden clubs, smashed shops owned by Uighurs, a Turkic largely Islamic people who share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia.

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The violence, which has showed signs of spreading in the volatile region, appeared to have little impact on China's financial markets. Stocks slipped on technical factors while the yuan was trading higher against the dollar.
Xinjiang has long been a hotbed of ethnic tensions, fostered by a yawning economic gap between Uighurs and Han Chinese, government controls on religion and culture and an influx of Han Chinese migrants who now are the majority in most key cities.
Beijing has poured cash into exploiting Xinjiang's rich oil and gas deposits and consolidating its hold on a strategically vital frontierland that borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.......

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1198035/Chinese-riot-police-use-tear-gas-quell-protesters-violence-flares-again.html

btw

how is tha Afghan pipeline project to america comming along ?
:sarcasm: