Uighur activist calls for probe on unrest in China

Source: Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — A Uighur activist called Friday for a U.N. investigation of recent violence in western China, as 100 people demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Melbourne.

Rebiya Kadeer told protesters waving the light blue flags of the World Uyghur Congress that Beijing had blamed her for inciting the violence in Xinjiang province in order to cover up "their heinous crime."

China says July clashes between minority Muslim Uighurs and members of the dominant Han Chinese group left 197 people dead and more than 1,700 injured. The 62-year-old exiled activist said many more died, including at the hands of government forces, but has provided no proof for her claims.

"We'd like to call on the international community, the United Nations and also the Australian government, to call on the Chinese government to reveal the truth of the people who were killed, wounded, injured, imprisoned and those who died in Chinese government custody," Kadeer said in her native Uighur language to the crowd.



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