Τα κρατικά μέσα ενημέρωσης μεταδίδουν ότι έχουν αυξηθεί τα μέτρα
ασφάλειας στην Ξινχιάνγκ καθώς συμπληρώνονται τέσσερα χρόνια από την
εξέγερση στην πρωτεύουσα της επαρχίας που είχε στοιχίσει τη ζωή σε 200
ανθρώπους. Σχεδόν ο μισός πληθυσμός της περιοχής ανήκει στην εθνοτική
μειονότητα των μουσουλμάνων Ουιγούρων, οι οποίοι κατηγορούν τους
Κινέζους Χαν για καταπίεση της πολιτιστικής τους κληρονομιάς.
Μέλος του Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος-σύμφωνα με το πρακτορείο Σινχουά-απηύθυνε έκκληση προς τους κατοίκους για ηρεμία ενώ διαμήνυσε
ότι οι αρχές θα λάβουν όλα τα απαραίτητα μέτρα για να πατάξουν τις
τρομοκρατικές και εξτρεμιστικές ομάδες. Καθώς το Σάββατο-σύμφωνα με το
Γαλλικό Πρακτορείο-ήταν προγραμματισμένη στρατιωτική άσκηση στην
περιοχή, η πρόσβαση σε αρκετούς δρόμους είχε απαγορευτεί.
Δεδομένου ότι η ενημέρωση προέρχεται σχεδόν αποκλειστικά από τα
κινεζικά μέσα και η ευρύτερη περιοχή της επαρχίας Ξινγιάνγκ είναι αρκετά
στρατοκρατούμενη, δεν έχουν γίνει γνωστές περισσότερες πληροφορίες για
το συμβάν της Παρασκευής.
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China to strike hard on violent terrorist attacks...
ReplyDeleteURUMQI, June 29 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese leader said Saturday that the country will strike hard on violent terrorist attacks according to law and maintain social stability in Xinjiang.
Yu Zhengsheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Xinjiang was hit by violent terrorist attacks in the past few days.
Yu, leading a work team, arrived in Urumqi early Saturday, after President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Friday to arrange the work of safeguarding social stability and the interests of the people in Xinjiang.
China will impose severe punishment on those taking part in violent crimes, Yu said at Saturday's meeting, which was attended by officials from across Xinjiang.
"We will step up actions to crack down upon terrorist groups and extremist organizations and track the wanted," he said.
Xinjiang has achieved sound economic development in recent years, but separatists in and outside the country have been escalating their efforts and those deep-seated problems challenging Xinjiang's social stability have not been completely solved, Yu said.
A few criminals have continuously masterminded and conducted violent terrorist attacks, causing serious losses to the lives and properties of the public, he said, slamming the attacks as "key threats to national unity and social stability in Xinjiang."
Safety precautions must be taken, especially for key areas and institutions, he said, calling for efforts to mobilize the public and CPC members.
Yu called on local people to stay calm and keep vigilance.
Yu also said authoritative information on the attacks should be released in a timely manner, and efforts must be taken to promote China's ethnic and religious policies as well as laws and regulations.
Also at the meeting, Meng Jianzhu, secretary of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the CPC Central Committee, made detailed anti-terror arrangements in Xinjiang.
Meng said that the recent violent terrorist attacks have revealed the anti-human nature of the terrorists, who are the common enemy of all ethnic groups.
Law enforcement agencies should severely crack down on violent terrorist activities, with precautionary and preemptive measures, to guarantee social stability in Xinjiang, Meng said.
The meeting was also attended by Zhang Chunxian, secretary of the CPC's Xinjiang committee, Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun and Wang Zhengwei, minister in charge of state ethnic affairs commission.
http://english.cntv.cn/20130629/104711.shtml
29/6/13
China ramps up security in Xinjiang after unrest...
ReplyDeleteHong Kong (CNN) -- In a show of force after unrest last week that left 35 people dead, Chinese authorities have ramped up security in the far-western region of Xinjiang.
Armed police held rallies in several cities in Xinjiang over the weekend, the local government news website Tianshannet reported. The site carried images showing convoys of armored vehicles and trucks full of police officers in riot gear.
China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs defended the action Monday, saying the government will "make every effort to ensure the long-term stability and development in Xinjiang."
The measures follow an outbreak of violence Wednesday in which a group attacked police stations and other government buildings in a remote Xinjiang township, Chinese state-run media said. Authorities have described it as a "terrorist attack," but overseas Uyghur groups have questioned the official version of events......http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/01/world/asia/china-xinjiang-violence/index.html
1/7/13
Uighur leader questions China's account of Tiananmen attack...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - The exiled leader of China's Uighur ethnic minority community called on Wednesday for an international investigation into an incident in which a car ploughed into pedestrians in Beijing, after Chinese authorities arrested five suspected Uighurs over the attack.
The SUV vehicle burst into flames after being driven into a crowd on Tiananmen Square on Monday. The three occupants and two bystanders were killed, while dozens were injured. Police said it was a terrorist attack.
Rebiya Kadeer, president of the Munich-based World Uighur Congress, called the attack tragic but was equivocal on whether Uighurs - a Muslim people from China's far western region of Xinjiang - had carried it out.
Kadeer, who lives in the Washington area, warned against accepting at face value China's account of the incident.
"Chinese claims simply cannot be accepted as facts without an independent and international investigation of what took place in Beijing on Monday," Kadeer said.
China, which almost certainly will ignore Kadeer's call for an international investigation, said it caught five suspected Islamist militants - all of whom have names that suggest they are Uighur. Chinese authorities have also moved to tighten security in Xinjiang.
Asked whether she believed Uighurs were responsible, Kadeer said: "Maybe and maybe not. It is difficult to tell at the moment, given the strict control of information by the Chinese government on this tragic incident."
"If the Uighurs did it, I believe they did it out of desperation because there is no channel for the Uighur people to seek redress for any kind of injustice they had suffered under Chinese rule," she added.
Her comments were made in written replies to Reuters questions, translated from the Uighur language by an aide......http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/31/us-china-tiananmen-kadeer-idUSBRE99U00F20131031?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
31/10/13
Anschlag auf Tiananmen-Platz.....China verschärft Kontrollen in Tibet und Uiguren-Provinz...
ReplyDeleteMehr Patrouillen und Checkpoints, strengere Kontrollen von Fluggästen: Die chinesische Polizei verschärft die Sicherheitsbestimmungen in den Provinzen Tibet und Xinjiang.
Als Reaktion auf den mutmaßlichen Anschlag auf dem Tiananmen-Platz in Peking haben die chinesischen Behörden in den beiden Provinzen Tibet und Xinjiang ihre Sicherheitsbestimmungen erhöht. Lokalen Medien zufolge patrouillieren auf den Straßen in Ürümqi, der Hauptstadt der Uiguren-Provinz Xinjiang, mehr Polizisten; Händler und Autos würden zusätzlich kontrolliert. Laut Staatsmedien sollen zudem Flüge aus der und in die Region strengeren Sicherheitsvorschriften unterliegen......http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2013-10/tiananmen-peking-anschlag-uiguren-tibet
31/10/13
China security chief blames Uighur separatists for Tiananmen attack...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - China's domestic security chief believes a fatal vehicle crash in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in which five died was planned by a Uighur separatist group, designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and United Nations.
Meng Jianzhu, a member of the 25-member Politburo responsible for domestic security, said the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was behind the attack. This is the first time Beijing has accused the group of carrying out the attack.
On Monday, an SUV ploughed through bystanders on the edge of the capital's iconic Tiananmen Square and burst into flames, killing the three people in the car and two bystanders, in what the government called a terrorist attack.
Beijing police have arrested five people it says were radical Islamists who were planning a holy war. Security has been strengthened in both Beijing and in Xinjiang, the restive far western region the Muslim Uighurs call home.
"This violent terrorist incident that's happened in Beijing was organized and premeditated," said Meng told Hong Kong's Phoenix TV, in comments carried by the official Xinhua news agency on Friday.
"The group that stood behind the scenes inciting it was the East Turkestan Islamic Movement," Meng said.
Many Uighurs call Xinjiang East Turkestan, and the government often blames the frequent outbreaks of violence there on extremists agitating for an independent state.
Some experts have expressed skepticism about China's characterization of the Tiananmen Square incident as a premeditated and coordinated attack.
"If it's a deliberate act, it's unsophisticated," said Joanne Smith Finley, a lecturer in Chinese studies at Newcastle University who studies Xinjiang. "It doesn't carry any of the hallmarks that we would expect to see if it was something that was plotted and carefully deliberated with overseas extremists."
The United Nations and U.S. placed ETIM on lists of terrorist organizations after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The group entered the public eye ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when it claimed to have caused a series of fatal explosions across the country.
Police said the driver of the SUV as a man called Usmen Hasan, whose name suggests he is a Uighur, and said his mother and wife were in the car with him, along with devices filled with gasoline and a flag with "extreme religious content" on it.
At least 42 people were injured.............http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/01/us-china-tiananmen-idUSBRE9A003L20131101?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
1/11/13
Xinjiang: China löst Top-General in Uiguren-Provinz ab
ReplyDeleteDie Personalie in der Uiguren-Provinz Xinjiang steht wohl im Kontext mit dem Anschlag auf dem Tiananmen-Platz. Offiziell nennen chinesische Behörden keine Gründe.
Der oberste General in der chinesischen Uiguren-Provinz Xinjiang ist seines Postens enthoben worden. Das berichteten staatliche Medien. Ein Grund wurde offiziell nicht genannt. Der Zeitpunkt der Amtsenthebung deutet jedoch darauf hin, dass die Entscheidung im Zusammenhang mit dem mutmaßlichen Anschlag auf dem Tiananmen-Platz in Peking in der vergangenen Woche steht.
Bei dem Zwischenfall waren die drei Insassen des Wagens und zwei Touristen getötet worden. Fast 40 Menschen wurden verletzt. Die Polizei vermutet Uiguren hinter dem Anschlag, nahm fünf von ihnen fest.
Die Uiguren leben in der nordwestlichen Region Xinjiang, wo es seit Jahren Auseinandersetzungen mit der Bevölkerungsmehrheit der Han-Chinesen gibt. Sie fordern seit Jahrzehnten mehr Autonomie, immer wieder kommt es zu Selbstmordanschlägen und Attacken auf die chinesische Obrigkeit.
Die chinesische Regierung wirft den Uiguren einen Kampf nach dem Vorbild radikaler globaler Gruppen vor. Allerdings äußerte sich die Wut der Uiguren nur selten außerhalb der Provinz Xinjiang. Kaum eine Nachricht aus diesem zentralasiatischen Gebiet dringt nach außen.
Experten gehen davon aus, dass die Täter vom Platz des Himmlischen Friedens genau dies ändern wollten: Sie wagten sich mit ihrem Protest in die Hauptstadt. "Ist diese Grenze einmal überschritten, ist der Protest kaum einzudämmen", schätzt der Chinaexperte Philip Potter von der University of Michigan.
http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2013-11/china-tiananmen-platz-anschlag-uiguren-provinz
4/11/13
Clashes in northwestern China in Beijing called terrorist attacks...
ReplyDeleteClashes of local groups with the police that occurred on Sunday in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China are acts of terrorism, declared the Chinese media on Tuesday.
They recalled that in an attack on police officers in the Sufu district, two policemen and 14 attackers were killed. Police officers were trying to arrest suspects in a criminal offense, when they were attacked by a few locals with knives and explosives.
According to media reports, the attackers were members of a terrorist group and it has been established that Hasan Ismail heads this group. Chinese media have described the incident as a planned act of terrorism. The English-language Chinese newspaper “Global Times”, on Tuesday called on the government to undertake measures for the elimination of ethnic strife.
Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2013_12_17/Clashes-in-northwestern-China-in-Beijing-called-terrorist-attacks-9324/
17/12/13
China Blames Terrorists for Deadly Clash in Xinjiang...
ReplyDeleteChina is blaming an Islamic "terror gang" for an incident during which police shot and killed 14 people in the far western region of Xinjiang.
Two policemen were also killed in Sunday's clash, which officials say broke out as police tried to arrest suspects near the town of Kashgar.
The official Xinhua news agency called the incident an "organized, pre-meditated, violent terror attack," noting that six people were arrested.
It said police believe the suspects were part of a 20-member terrorist group that had tested explosives and were planning attacks.
Xinjiang has been the scene of numerous incidents of deadly unrest, which Beijing often blames on foreign-backed Muslim Uighur separatists.
Exiled Uighur groups dispute the claim, saying China is exaggerating the threat in order to justify its repression of Muslim religious life.
It is often difficult for foreign journalists to verify the claims made by either side, as Beijing severely restricts all but state-backed reporting in the region.
http://www.voanews.com/content/china-blames-terrorists-for-deadly-clash-in-xinjiang/1811819.html
17/12/13
8 terrorists killed in Xinjiang....
ReplyDeleteEight people have been shot dead by police in the city of Kashgar, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Local website Tianshan reports that the incident occurred after nine men armed with knives attacked a county police office early on Monday morning.
The attackers threw explosives at the office and set a police car on fire. Eight of them were shot and killed, and the ninth was arrested.
http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131230/103637.shtml
30/12/13
Chinese Police Detain Prominent Uighur Activist ....
ReplyDeleteChinese police have detained a university professor who is also an outspoken critic of Beijing's harsh policies against Uighur Muslims in far western China.
Ilham Tohti, an economics professor at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, was taken by police during a raid on his home Wednesday.
The information was passed on by Tohti's wife, who said police also confiscated phones and computer equipment from the home.
Police have not yet commented on any charges against Tohti, who has been detained or harassed several times in the past because of his commentaries.
The 45-year-old told VOA in November that plain-clothes police rammed his car, took his phone, and threatened to kill him because of his comments to the media.
He regularly criticizes what he views as China's heavy-handed policies in the western Xinjiang region, where Beijing says it is fighting foreign-backed separatists.
Human rights groups and exiled Uighurs say China is exaggerating the threat in order to justify its repression of Muslim religious life.
Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic ethnic minority group. They complain of government discrimination resulting from a large influx of majority Han Chinese to Xinjiang.
Beijing has blamed much of Xinjiang's recent unrest on what it calls Uighur terrorists affiliated with the banned East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). China claims the group receives training in neighboring Pakistan.
The U.S. State Department designated ETIM as a terrorist group following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. China has warned the group has connections to al-Qaida and Osama Bin Laden.
Tohti, a Uighur himself, had questioned those links, telling VOA in 2011 that anyone "who thinks they can connect Osama bin Laden to the Uighurs should just shut their mouths if they are smart enough."
http://www.voanews.com/content/chinese-police-detain-prominent-uighur-activist/1831166.html
16/1/14
Fresh clashes kill 12 in China's Xinjiang region.......
ReplyDeleteSix die in explosions and another six shot dead by police in Xinjiang, home to ethnic minority Uighurs.
Six people have died in explosions and another six have been shot dead by police in fresh violence in China's restive western region of Xinjiang, home to the ethnic minority Uighurs, state media reported.
Assailants threw explosives at police in Xinhe county in the Aksu prefecture on Friday, triggering a clash in which police killed six and captured five suspects, according to the Tianshan news outlet, which is run by the regional Communist party.
Another six people died in blasts, the news outlet said, without providing details.
The official Xinhua news agency reported that the Uighur town of Xinhe was shaken by three blasts that hit a hair salon, a produce market and a vehicle that exploded after it was surrounded by police. The case is under investigation.
Xinjiang is home to low-intensity insurgency by native Turkish Muslim Uighurs against what they see as discrimination and religious suppression by China's majority Han people. The government has responded with a crackdown on what it calls terrorism incited by separatists who are influenced by radical Islam.
The Tianshan report called Friday's violence an act of terrorism.
Last year, clashes between authorities and members of the minority group left scores dead, including 40 police officers................http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/25/fresh-clashes-kill-12-china-xinjiang-uighurs
25/1/14
China Kills 'Several Terrorists' in Xinjiang...
ReplyDeleteChinese police have shot dead what state media say are "several terrorists" in the western Xinjiang region where Beijing says it is fighting an Islamic separatist movement.
The official Xinhua news agency said Friday the "terrorists, riding motorbikes and cars, attacked a team of police" in front of a park in Wushi County in the Aksu Prefecture.
The brief report said the "terrorists had unknown number of LNG cylinders in their car which they had attempted to use as suicide bombs."
Clashes occasionally break out between state security forces and ethnic Uighur Muslims who complain of religious and cultural persecution by the Beijing government.
The government blames most of the attacks on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. China says the group is fighting for independence and is backed by foreign extremists.
Many international human rights groups say China is exaggerating the threat in order to justify its repression of Muslim religious life.
When such clashes occur, exiled Uighur activists almost invariably blame China's heavy-handed police tactics for the violence.
http://www.voanews.com/content/china-kills-several-terrorists-in-xinjiang/1851249.html
14/2/14
Police shoot dead "several terrorists" in China's Xinjiang....
ReplyDeleteBEIJING: Chinese authorities shot dead "several terrorists" during an "attack" in Xinjiang on Friday, state media said, the latest violent incident in the restive far-west region home to mostly Muslim ethnic minority Uighurs.
"Several terrorists were shot dead by police during a terrorist attack Friday afternoon," the Xinhua news agency said, without immediately providing any further details.
Xinjiang police and information officers reached by phone declined to comment to AFP.
The vast region has for years been hit by occasional unrest carried out by Uighurs, which rights groups say is driven by cultural oppression, intrusive security measures and immigration by Han Chinese.
Authorities routinely attribute such incidents to "terrorists", and argue that China faces a violent separatist movement in the area motivated by religious extremism and linked to foreign terrorist groups.
Experts question the strength of such a network, however, and information in the area is hard to independently verify.
Triple explosions hit the region in late January, killing at least three people, according to a Xinjiang government website. Police shot dead six people soon afterward.
- AFP/nd
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/police-shoot-dead-several/998148.html
14/2/14