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This picture taken on June 6, 2014, shows security forces participating in a military drill in Hetian, northwest China’s Xinjiang region. China vowed a year-long campaign against terrorism after attackers in Xinjiang killed 39 people in a suicide raid. The statement said the campaign would last until June 2015 and is aimed at “preventing the spread of religious extremism” from Xinjiang to the country’s interior. (AFP Photo)
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Participants playing the role of attackers confront riot policemen during a security drill in Urumqi, Xinjiang province, in a file photo taken April 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Blast at train station in China’s Urumqi, some injured
Beijing, Reuters—An explosion hit a railway station in the capital of China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday injuring some people, in what is likely to be seen as an embarrassing security lapse for the government. The blast happened at...Caption:
In this Jan. 7, 2014 photo, paramilitary policemen train in a snow in Kashgar, in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. China’s restive Xinjiang region is doubling its budget for fighting terrorism following an unusually bloody year of anti-government attacks. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
Twelve dead in fresh violence in China’s Xinjiang province—Xinhua
Beijing, Reuters—Chinese police shot dead six people during a “terrorist” attack in the restive western region of Xinjiang and six more died when explosives they were carrying detonated, the official Xinhua news agency said. Police came under attack on...Caption:
A merchant of the Uighur ethnic group sits outside his shop selling Muslim headwear in the old town of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, 24 May 2013. Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority group in China, make up about 40 per cent of the 21.8 million people in Xinjiang, a vast, ethnically divided region that borders Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Tensions have been high between the Uighurs and the dominant Han Chinese as Uighurs complain of cultural and religious repression and claim that Han Chinese migrants enjoy the main benefits of develop. (EPA Photo)
Unrest leaves 27 dead in China’s troubled Xinjiang – Xinhua
Beijing, Reuters— Gangs armed with knives attacked a police station and a local government building on Wednesday in China’s restive far western Xinjiang region, leaving 27 dead in clashes with police, the government news agency Xinhua said. The unrest in the...Caption:
Shepherds lead flocks of sheep and cattle in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, March 24, 2013. REUTERS/China Daily