WSJ:
Xinhua quoted Liu Yaohua, a senior police official in Xinjiang, as saying that rioters had burned 261 vehicles, including 190 buses and two police cars, several of which were still ablaze as of Monday morning. Mr. Liu said the death toll of 140 “would still be climbing.”
NYT:
The casualty toll, if confirmed, would make this the deadliest outbreak of violence in China in many years.
The death toll has finally climbed to 156. BBC has the images from the riots and the confrontations with police.
If there is something that strikes me, is that MSM refer to this as an “ethnic” problem. It’s true that Uighurs are a different race from mayority Chinese Han, but it’s not the only difference. The other is religion: Uighurs are Muslims and are asking independence from China for some years now. As we can see, the police has employed itself fully against them.
Cross-posted from Tea And Politics.
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