Word: urumqi
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Thousands of Han residents armed with clubs poured onto the streets of Urumqi on July 7, raising the risk of more racial violence in this western Chinese city. Just two days ago, the Xinjiang capital was thrown into chaos when protests by more than 1,000 members of the Uighur minority turned into a riot. Sunday's events left 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured, the deadliest eruption of public violence in China since People's Liberation Army soldiers killed several hundred people during the 1989 crackdown on demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The club-wielding...
...Chinese government efforts at media management backfired dramatically, as a large group of women besieged an official tour of visiting journalists to protest the arrests of their husbands, sons and brothers. Six buses full of foreign and Chinese reporters had been taken to a neighborhood southeast of Urumqi's Grand Bazaar to see an auto dealership that was burned by rioters on July 5. (See pictures of the March 2008 riots in Tibet...
...before, but still they took him." The women estimated that thousands of men had been arrested. They dumped out plastic bags that held more than 100 pairs of footwear and trousers, which they said police had forced the detainees to take off when they were arrested. Urumqi Party Secretary Li Zhi had said earlier at a press conference that more than 1,000 people were arrested but that they were all taken while actively rioting...
...Urumqi is home to a number of universities, and students were reportedly well represented among the protesters. According to Alim of WUC, after the street protests had been stopped, Chinese security forces "stormed into Xinjiang University and several other universities, entering the dormitories and arresting students." He said many students were killed in front of the gates of the university by armed security forces shooting automatic weapons and using armored personnel carriers...
...large influx of Han from other parts of China, whom they believe are given preferential treatment by both private and government employers. Gladney said he also believes that the street protests in Tehran and other Iranian cities that followed the recent presidential election there may have influenced protesters in Urumqi...