Tuesday, July 19, 2011

This is where the attack took place.

Sometimes I wish I can teach all those pundits on how to search photos in Chinese.


The red banner reads "To build a happy family", Harmonious society indeed






14 rioters shot down in Xinjiang attack
Updated: 2011-07-20 06:57
(Xinhua)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-07/20/content_12938621.htm

HOTAN, Xinjiang - Police shot down 14 rioters who attacked a police station in Hotan city of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Monday noon, a Communist Party official in Hotan said Wednesday.

The official, who declined to be named, said the attack left four people dead, including an armed police officer, a security guard, a woman and a teenage girl. At least three others were injured.

Rioters hacked security guard Memet Eli to death while they were trying to break into the Na'erbage police station shortly after 12 pm Monday, said Ablet Metniyaz, chief of the police station.

"He is just 25. He planned to get married in September," said Abliz, an officer of the police station.

In addition to Eli, an armed police and two civilians died in the incident, according to Metniyaz, 38, who has been serving as chief of the police station for three years.

The rioters had taken six civilian people and some police staff hostage, and set fire and smashed things in the police station, leaving damaged computers, printers, furniture and clothes scattered around, Metniyaz said.

Shouting frantic religious slogans like "Allah the only God", the rioters ran to the top floor and police opened fire to stop them, said an anonymous policeman with the police station.

When the attack took place, most of the police station's staff were following Metniyaz to visit local residents in an effort to seek their opinions about safeguarding public security.

The rioters had occupied the police station when Metniyaz led his team back.

"I shouted in Uygur language, asking the rioters to stop doing things that run against the law and to settle disputes in peaceful way. But they kept casting gasoline bottles and rocks to us," said Metniyaz.

"I saw the rioters hacking innocent people, some of them got injuries on their faces, noses and ears."

Rioters also attacked the adjacent industrial and commercial bureau, injuring two staff there.

All the rioters were male aged between 20 to 40. They spoke with non-Hotan accent and wore sneakers -- "probably to prepare for running away," said Metniyaz.

4 comments:

Justin said...

This kind of behaviour is sort of why I find it hard to feel sympathetic one way or the other about situations like this. While I'm sure the Uyghurs have their legitimate grievances, disgusting shit like this is only going to harden the already non-too-empathetic Han attitude towards Uyghurs.

Justin said...

"Sometimes I wish I can teach all those pundits on how to search photos in Chinese.

The red banner reads "To build a happy family", Harmonious society indeed"

I hope you're being rhetorical, since you're probably familiar with the glossy jaunt of revolutionary sloganeering. Besides subtlety and irony are probably lost on most pundits.

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Coatepeque said...

Justin,

First of all, my condolences to the family of the victims. My joke does not work all the time.