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Chinese riot police break up fresh ethnic protests

• Hundreds take to streets wielding sticks and shovels• Unrest breaks out after 1,434 arrests
Tania Branigan in Urumqi
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 July 2009 09.21 BST
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Soldiers in the back of a truck in Urumqi, China. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA
A new wave of violence swept through the capital of the Chinese region of Xinjiang today as riot police were forced to break up crowds of Han Chinese who marched through Urumqi attacking Muslim Uighurs two days after at least 156 people were killed in ethnic clashes.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of protesters from China's predominant Han ethnic group wielding wooden sticks, lead pipes, shovels and hoes amassed around People's Square in the centre of this large city before rampaging through a Uighur district smashing shops and stalls.
Large numbers of paramilitary police looked on, but little early attempt was apparently made to restrain them. Later riot police did intervene with teargas to try to break up the crowd.
Journalists were bundled away from the scene "for their own safety". Banks closed their doors and staff crouched inside, some holding staves. Hotel windows were taped up.
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The crowd was diverse: a young woman in a colourful pattern top and white diamante mules clutched a piece of metal pipe. A father held his young son in one hand and a length of wood in the other. No one seemed able to explain why they expected trouble or what had started rumours.
The ethnic Han Chinese were worst hit by the violence on Sunday, when as many as 3,000 Uighurs gathered to protest oppression and the death of some of their kin in a riot in southern China. Witnesses described brutal apparently random attacks on Han people.
Today Uighur residents erupted into protests again during an official media tour of the riot zone in the face of hundreds of officers. Thousands of riot and armed paramilitary police have flooded the southern part of the capital.
Women in the market place burst into wailing and chanting as foreign reporters arrived, complaining that police had taken away Uighur men. Authorities have arrested 1,434 people in connection with Sunday's unrest.
"The policemen took away my husband last night. I don't know why and I don't know where he is," said Abdurajit.
"Mine was taken too. They still have him," broke in another woman.
As they streamed out on to the main street, the crowd swelled to about 200, with Uighur men and more women joining them, shouting and waving their fists.
And then a single old woman, propped on a crutch, forced armoured personnel carriers and massed paramilitary ranks into a slow – if temporary – retreat.
No one noticed her at first. She emerged from the crowd and moved slowly down the street.
A Uighur police officer came forward to escort her away. She could not be persuaded.
As older residents stepped forward and attempted to calm the crowd, she advanced steadily towards the line of armoured vehicles. She halted inches in front of one. The driver started its engine.
For a long moment they faced each other.
Then the carrier slowly began to roll backwards and the line of officers inched away, back down the road.
She walked forward. They inched back. She continued while the officer pleaded with her to step away.
Suddenly, he turned to me and grabbed my notebook, ripped out a page and scribbled a note for her; apparently his name and identity number. He thrust it at her. Reluctantly, she agreed to leave.
For now, it seemed, tensions had ebbed in this riven city.
Earlier, the Guardian watched as the crowd surrounded a police van and smashed the windscreen. A woman thrust photographs of her family at a helmeted officer, screaming at him to look at them, but the mood soon turned nasty and hands in the crowd reached out to hit and punch him. He had to be pulled out by fellow officers.
Suddenly, the massed might of the Chinese authorities looked very much like one scared and vulnerable man – like many of the young officers stationed around the city.
As the crowd grew, paramilitaries began to move down the street and push them back. Officers lashed out with batons and shields, but were restrained by their superiors.
Then the old woman stepped forward. By the time she turned aside, about 30 minutes after the protests burst out, numbers had dwindled to just a few dozen, sandwiched between the paramilitaries and a second line of armed riot police who had emerged behind them.
Officials attempted to remove reporters – telling them that it was not safe and did not fit in with media arrangements – as the stand-off continued.
"You see old women and children now. But on Sunday night it was men – you should go to the hospital and see the victims," said one.
The Guardian and other media left today's confrontation only when protesters had left the road, a few at a time, returning to the market area.
Before the confrontation, many residents in the mainly Uighur area had been reluctant to talk about what happened on Sunday night.
"Not too clear," or "I'm not really sure," several said.
But one young Uighur man said it began because Uighur men were killed in mass violence at a factory in Guangdong last month and said there were other resentments.
"People just wanted to protest peacefully," he said.
"The Chinese want to keep us down. They will not let us have our own country."
Uighur Muslims make up almost half of the population of Xinjiang – an area three times the size of France. Many resent controls on their religion and growing Han immigration and accuse the government of eroding their culture. The region has seen sporadic eruptions of violence, but the scale of this weekend's mass killings staggered everyone.
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Uighurs cling to life in People's hospital as China's wounds weep
Tania Branigan
The Guardian, Tuesday 7 July 2009
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Four-year-old Aliya lay on a trolley, blinking at the commotion, amid scores of victims who had spilled out of the wards into the corridors.
The little Uighur boy was dazed by the hubbub, his head injury and his pregnant mother's disappearance. He was clinging to her hand in the chaos on the streets when a bullet tore into her, said doctors; now surgeons were operating. All he could do was wait.
Twenty six more patients were clinging to life in the People's hospital after the bloodiest violence in decades erupted in the centre of Urumqi on Sunday night, killing at least 156 and injuring 828, the Chinese authorities said.
Outside, thousands of riot officers and armed paramilitary police blanketed the southernmost part of the city, where the riots broke out around the Grand Bazaar. Trucks full of troops lined streets and armoured personnel carriers were parked on the People's Square, where we watched as two men were detained outside a shopping centre and marched away. Early today the official Xinhua news agency said police had arrested 1,434 suspects in connection with the rioting in the capital of the north-western region, Xinjiang.
Turkic-speaking Uighur Muslims make up almost half of Xinjiang's 19 million inhabitants – but many are resentful of controls on religion, increasing Han Chinese immigration and policies they believe favour the Han.
Despite the underlying grievances and sporadic outbreaks of violence, no one had predicted the vicious ethnic violence which scarred the city.
Around the riot zone burnt-out buses and buildings still smouldered, the noxious smoke drifting in the heat. Odd shoes lay scattered, abandoned by fleeing owners; broken glass was sprayed across the road. Emerald flies glinted on the street corner, lighting on the sticky, brownish patch of blood.
Groups of Uighur men in the traditional four-cornered caps crouched on the pavements.
Ten people died on this street alone, officials said; they handed out graphic footage from the previous night. It showed corpses strewn along the road, blood pouring from their heads, and bricks and rocks tossed away beside them, no longer needed. A pile of bodies heaped up on a corner.
But exactly who died, how – and why – remains unclear. While witnesses reported brutal and apparently indiscriminate assaults by young Uighur men on Han Chinese, Uighurs and other ethnic minorities were also injured.
"We were all afraid," said one Uighur man.
Already there are conflicting explanations of why an apparently peaceful protest by young Uighurs led to mob violence and slaughter. The Chinese authorities blame Uighur exiles for orchestrating the riots. But the World Uighur Congress allege that police shot and beat to death demonstrators as they crushed a peaceful protest.
"It's not good to talk about it," said one Han worker in Urumqi. Like many residents, he was reluctant to talk and refused to be identified. Then he added: "Before this I felt safe, but a lot of Uighur people don't like us. They say there are too many Han people here."
Down the road, a Uighur agreed that the causes of unrest lay within China. "Uighur and Han people here don't get on," he said. "There was a lot of fighting, but it was mostly Uighurs who got hurt."
The events in Urumqi have obvious echoes of last year's fatal riots in Tibet, which began in Lhasa and quickly spread. In that case, too, the authorities blamed ethnic minority exiles for fomenting violence while Tibetans accused the government of killing scores of people.
But the official response is markedly different. While authorities banned the foreign media from entering Tibet and large swaths of Tibetan areas last year, this time they set up a special media centre, arranged an official tour of the riot zone and the People's hospital, and distributed footage.
Stung by the criticism China experienced last year, they want the world to see the aftermath of Sunday's unrest.
But internet access was cut off throughout the city – and possibly through the entire region – and calls could not be made to overseas. Some photographers had memory cards, or even cameras, taken from them after photographing armed police.
Despite the heavy security, residents were allowed to go about their business. Customers still gathered in a local market, but many shops were shuttered and residents simply stood and watched as the paramilitary police marched past.
Bright yellow haulage trucks had begun to shift the hundreds of buses and cars torched across the city. But on the forecourt of Guo Jianxing's car showroom, the charred skeletons of a dozen cars were parked neatly in an eerie parody of their former gleaming perfection. The plate glass windows of the building had shattered and fire had consumed the interior.
He said a crowd of young Uighur men had swept into the property on Sunday, injuring a worker and causing hundreds of thousands of yuan of damage.
Further along, on Tuanjie Lu, red-eyed workers loaded sooty trays of coke bottles on to a trolley at Liu Jie's store, trying to salvage what little remained.Her hands were black and her clothing reeked of smoke; her eyes filled with tears as she described how she crouched in the courtyard behind her home as the mob returned again and again.
"It was getting worse by 7pm and I told my workers to go home. When people broke the windows I fled myself. They were using big rocks," she said.
"They beat and killed Han people in the street. I was hiding in the courtyard behind the shop and they tried to break the gate, then the second group came. We were attacked five times, the last time at about 11pm and they set [the shop] on fire. We hid in the backyard until the armed police and fire service came to help. There were people killed on the street, they were chased, beaten and knifed. Physically I was not hurt but mentally I was seriously attacked." Liu Hongtao was heading home when the unrest broke out. "I took the bus home, but a gang of people stopped it and beat us – they cut me in three places," he recalled.
He staggered to the People's hospital, passing out as he crossed the threshold – one of hundreds of victims who made their way there overnight.
Video footage shot by hospital officials shows the arrival of patient after patient with bloody head wounds. Some limped in supported by friends; others had to be carried. Two victims, bandaged around the head and hooked up to intravenous drips, lay on the fruit barrow that friends had brought them on, still strewn with apples.
Dr Wang, the hospital's head, said 274 patients were still undergoing treatment today. All those the Guardian saw appeared to have been beaten, but the authorities said some had been knifed and seven had been shot.
Most of them – 233 – were Han. But 39 were Uighur, 15 were Hui – another Muslim minority – and four came from other ethnic groups. Whatever caused the violence, it has hit every community. There were women in headscarves on the corridors of the hospital and men wearing traditional caps.
In the intensive care unit, swollen faces lay motionless on the pillows. Dr Ge Xiaohu stood amid the beds in a rare moment of calm; staff had been working through the night. "We have never had a situation like this. It's terrible," he said. They had failed to save 17 patients; he hoped the rest could survive.
Seven floors below, Aliya lay patiently on his trolley. He closed his eyes and awaited his mother's return.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/06/china-uighur-urumqi-victims-deaths

Fresh protests flare in China as hundreds confront police

Tania Branigan in Urumqi
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 July 2009 05.42 BST
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Uighur people take to the streets in Urumqi. Photograph: Guang Niu/Getty Images
Chinese armed police and Uighurs clashed in extraordinary scenes in the capital of the north-western region of Xinjiang this morning – two days after at least 156 people were killed in vicious ethnic violence.
Uighur residents erupted into protests during an official media tour of the riot zone in the face of hundreds of officers. Thousands of riot and armed paramilitary police have flooded the southern part of the capital.
Women in the market place burst into wailing and chanting as foreign reporters arrived, complaining that police had taken away Uighur men. Authorities have arrested 1,434 people in connection with Sunday's unrest.
"The policemen took away my husband last night. I don't know why and I don't know where he is," said Abdurajit.
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"Mine was taken too. They still have him," broke in another woman.
As they streamed out on to the main street, the crowd swelled to about 200, with Uighur men and more women joining them, shouting and waving their fists.
And then a single old woman, propped on a crutch, forced armoured personnel carriers and massed paramilitary ranks into a slow – if temporary – retreat.
No one noticed her at first. She emerged from the crowd and moved slowly down the street.
A Uighur police officer came forward to escort her away. She could not be persuaded.
As older residents stepped forward and attempted to calm the crowd, she advanced steadily towards the line of armoured vehicles. She halted inches in front of one. The driver started its engine.
For a long moment they faced each other.
Then the carrier slowly began to roll backwards and the line of officers inched away, back down the road.
She walked forward. They inched back. She continued while the officer pleaded with her to step away.
Suddenly, he turned to me and grabbed my notebook, ripped out a page and scribbled a note for her; apparently his name and identity number. He thrust it at her. Reluctantly, she agreed to leave.
For now, it seemed, tensions had ebbed in this riven city.
Earlier, the Guardian watched as the crowd surrounded a police van and smashed the windscreen. A woman thrust photographs of her family at a helmeted officer, screaming at him to look at them, but the mood soon turned nasty and hands in the crowd reached out to hit and punch him. He had to be pulled out by fellow officers.
Suddenly, the massed might of the Chinese authorities looked very much like one scared and vulnerable man – like many of the young officers stationed around the city.
As the crowd grew, paramilitaries began to move down the street and push them back. Officers lashed out with batons and shields, but were restrained by their superiors.
Then the old woman stepped forward. By the time she turned aside, about 30 minutes after the protests burst out, numbers had dwindled to just a few dozen, sandwiched between the paramilitaries and a second line of armed riot police who had emerged behind them.
Officials attempted to remove reporters – telling them that it was not safe and did not fit in with media arrangements – as the stand-off continued.
"You see old women and children now. But on Sunday night it was men – you should go to the hospital and see the victims," said one.
Most of those injured on Sunday night appear to have been Han Chinese, although Uighurs and other ethnic minorities were also injured and a full breakdown of casualties is not yet available. Witnesses described brutal, apparently random attacks on Han people.
Uighur Muslims make up almost half of the population of Xinjiang – an area three times the size of France. Many resent controls on their religion and growing Han immigration and accuse the government of eroding their culture. The region has seen sporadic eruptions of violence, but the scale of this weekend's mass killings staggered everyone.
The Guardian and other media left today's confrontation only when protesters had left the road, a few at a time, returning to the market area.
Before the confrontation, many residents in the mainly Uighur area had been reluctant to talk about what happened on Sunday night.
"Not too clear," or "I'm not really sure," several said.
But one young Uighur man said it began because Uighur men were killed in mass violence at a factory in Guangdong last month and said there were other resentments.
"People just wanted to protest peacefully," he said.
"The Chinese want to keep us down. They will not let us have our own country."

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