URUMQI, China - Scattered mobs of Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese roamed the streets and beat passers-by Tuesday as the capital of China's Xinjiang region degenerated into communal violence, prompting the government to impose a curfew in the aftermath of a riot that killed at least 156 people.
Members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic group attacked people near the Urumqi's railway station, and women in headscarves protested the arrests of husbands and sons in another part of the city. Meanwhile, for much of the afternoon, a mob of 1,000 mostly young Han Chinese holding clubs and chanting "Defend the Country" tore through streets trying to get to a Uighur neighborhood until they were repulsed by police firing tear gas.
Panic and anger bubbled up amid the suspicion. In some neighborhoods, Han Chinese — China's majority ethnic group — armed themselves with pieces of lumber and shovels to defend themselves. People bought up bottled water out of fear, as one resident said, that "the Uighurs might poison the water."
>>>News media in the west snow-balled the relatively mild, but important, demonstrations in Iran in the aftermath of election disputes. However, the mass demonstration, violance and order of magnitude killing of Chinese is not given any weight. Why? Is it possible that as some have hypothesized on this forum and elsewhere, the iran events were sponsored by British coupers, while china's affair is not? More killings in China, more in jail, people poisoned by their own govenrment in China, and on and on. Not so in Iran. What gives?
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We care about Iran , NOT you Arabs and Palestinians
by IranFirst (not verified) on Tue Jul 07, 2009 02:35 PM PDTWhy is it so hard to understand ?! This is an IRANIAN Site, yes we care much much more about Iran and the crimes of its illegal foreign occupiers than China, Palestine, Israel, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, ....
Iranians are much more educated than you Arabs, we don't need any other country to decide for us what to do. Iran has always been on the forefront of fighting for freedom in this part of the world. After getting rid of the Islamic republic, the whole middle East will be different and it will be the start of the demise of the whole terrorist Islamic movement in the world (another gift from Iranians to the world).
Sorry, Arabs have to find your own solutions to your problems.