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Riot policemen lead men who are about to be executed into a police van in this still image taken from a video in an unknown location in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, on June 16, 2014. (Reuters/CCTV/via Reuters TV)
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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)
Chinese police shoot dead 13 attackers in restive Xinjiang
Shanghai, Reuters—Chinese police shot dead 13 attackers in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang on Saturday after they rammed a car into a police station and detonated explosives, Xinhua news agency said, in the latest of a series of attacks to worry Beijing....Caption:
A man lays a wreath on the square outside the railway station in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan province on March 2, 2014. (AFP Photo)
China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead
Kunming, Reuters—Witnesses to chilling violence at a Chinese train station placed under heavy security on Sunday recalled moments of fear and chaos after at least 29 people were killed in what authorities called a terrorist attack by Xinjiang militants. Officials said...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:
In this file picture taken on June 12, 2010, University professor, blogger, and member of the Muslim Uighur minority, Ilham Tohti, pauses before a classroom lecture in Beijing. (AFP Photo/Files/Frederic J. brown)