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Coventina

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Thu Sep-03-09 10:02 AM
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New protests in western China

Source: BBC

There have been fresh protests in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where almost 200 people were killed in ethnic violence in July.

A witness told the BBC that as many as 2,000 ethnic Han Chinese had been demonstrating in the capital Urumqi.

A trigger for the protests appears to have been a spate of unexplained stabbings using hypodermic syringes.

Local media said nearly 500 people, the vast majority of them Han, had been stabbed in the past few weeks.

State-run news agency Xinhua said that 15 people had been arrested over the stabbings, and that four of them had already been prosecuted.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8235305.stm

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David__77

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Thu Sep-03-09 09:49 PM
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1. Hopefully the culprits are caught.

Some small group is probably trying to instigate strife and terror. Or maybe just a couple crazy people with no political agenda.

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