Not less than sixteen people have been killed in a clash
happened in China’s fidgety province of Xinjiang which has a large population of
the Muslim Uighur minority. These clashes are happening just two months after a
deadly attacked carried by the same group at Beijing’s
Tiananmen Square.
The police are busy in detaining criminal suspects in the
Shufu area of the country which is nearer to the Silk Road city of Kashgar a remote place in far western China. The
police too were attacked by several militants who were armed with arms,
explosives and knives. This was reported by the Tianshannet news website which
is run by the regional government of the Xinjiang provincial government. Two of the
police officers were also killed by them. 14 militants were also killed in
retaliation, said the website.
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16 killed in clashes in China’s Xinjiang region
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On the other hand the overseas sympathizers of the Uighur rights group have claimed that the policemen broke into the houses where its
members were busy in a religious gathering and opened the fire first. The World
Uyghur Congress spokesman Dilxat Raxit claimed from Munich that two of the 14 people killed by
the police were minors. He termed the use of force by the police as “abusive
use of force by the authorities” and “are deprived to the Uighurs rights to
live.”
The Xinjiang police official claimed that all 14 people
killed were terrorists who were promoting extremist religious ideas and were
involved in manufacturing explosives for terror attacks across the country. He even
claimed that 6 terrorists were also captured in the process. This operation is
significant as it has come only two months after an explosion killed two people
and injured 40 at the historic Tiananmen Square at the heart of Beijing, the national
capital. The explosion happened after a car crashed into a few other vehicles and
setting them ablaze. All three attackers involved named as Usmen Hasan along
with his wife and mother died at the spot immediately after they got their work
done.
