Posts Tagged ‘Ethnic Violence’
Monday, July 6th, 2009
To our brave brothers and sister fighting for freedoms in china, you have our love and support and wishes for success.
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At least 140 people have been killed and more than 800 others injured as ethnic violence erupted in China’s restive Xinjiang region.
A government spokesman confirmed on Monday that at least 140 people were killed, after hundreds of locals took to the streets of the regional capital Urumqi on Sunday — burning and smashing vehicles and confronting police and anti-riot troops — state media Xinhua news agency reported.
Xinhua did not say how many people were involved or how many have been arrested, but AFP said that the confrontation involved around 3,000 Uighurs, and that at least 300 had been arrested.
The unrest had followed a protest against government handling of a clash between Han Chinese and Uighur factory workers in far southern China in late June, when two Uighurs died.
Police used electric cattle prods and fired gunshots into the air to try to quell the unrest. Three people from China’s majority Han Chinese ethnic group died in the attacks and an overnight curfew was declared.
On Monday morning, however, order was restored "the situation was under control", according to Xinhua.
China has called Sunday’s unrest in Urumqi, "a crime of violence that was pre-meditated and organized", saying that it was masterminded by the World Uighur Congress led by Rebiya Kadeer, who lives in exile in the United States.
The unrest is the latest in more than a year of violence to hit Xinjiang, home to eight million Muslim Uighurs — many of whom say they have suffered political and religious persecution under Han Chinese rule for decades.
During this long period of time Uighur separatists
140 dead in bloody riots in China’s Xinjiang
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
Israel’s opposition party leader Tzipi Livni says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not really believe in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Netanyahu doesn’t really believe that two states, a Jewish state and a Palestinian state, even a demilitarized one, is an Israeli interest," Livni said Monday, while addressing lawmakers at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
"But the prime minister was surprised to encounter the outside world and placed Israel, to my great sorrow, in the position of the party that is rejecting peace and then he understood that at this stage he needs to utter the words ‘two states’," the Kadima leader also underlined.
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