geneva
07-09-2009, 11:33 AM
"On Sunday, Mr. Lu was among at least 156 people killed in the deadliest ethnic violence in China in decades. Raging Uighurs battled security forces and attacked Han civilians across Urumqi.
The riot had evolved from a protest march held by more than 1,000 Uighurs to demand that the government investigate an earlier brawl between Han and Uighurs in southern China.
The government, apparently hoping to tamp down racial violence, has not released a breakdown of the ethnicities of the 156 dead. But Mr. Lu’s father said that of more than 100 photographs of bodies that he looked through at a police station to identify his son, the vast majority were Han Chinese, most with their heads cut or smashed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/asia/09han.html?hpw
Although the Times of London was saying this days ago:
"At one point the ethnic tensions spilled over with Han eager to take revenge for the dozens of deaths – mainly of Han stabbed by marauding gangs of Uighurs – at the weekend. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article6655225.ece
The riot had evolved from a protest march held by more than 1,000 Uighurs to demand that the government investigate an earlier brawl between Han and Uighurs in southern China.
The government, apparently hoping to tamp down racial violence, has not released a breakdown of the ethnicities of the 156 dead. But Mr. Lu’s father said that of more than 100 photographs of bodies that he looked through at a police station to identify his son, the vast majority were Han Chinese, most with their heads cut or smashed."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/asia/09han.html?hpw
Although the Times of London was saying this days ago:
"At one point the ethnic tensions spilled over with Han eager to take revenge for the dozens of deaths – mainly of Han stabbed by marauding gangs of Uighurs – at the weekend. "
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/china/article6655225.ece