There will be a harsh crackdown but the basic problems won't disappear
There will be a harsh crackdown, but the basic problems won't disappear."The Chinese video website Youku () ran footage titled "Urumqi riot" that showed smoke rising from an expressway as a firetruck stopped at the scene.An overseas Chinese news website, Boxun (peacehall ), showed pictures it said were of the Urumqi riot, including hundreds of civilians pressed against a row of police, burning wreckage on a city street, and anti-riot police in shields and helmets.Almost half of Xinjiang's 20 million people are Uighurs. There were thousands of people shouting to stop ethnic discrimination, demanding an explanation. World | ChinaThe official Xinhua news agency said rioters "illegally gathered in several downtown places and engaged in beating, smashing, looting and burning" in the regional capital Urumqi.The dead were "three ordinary people of the Han ethnic group," Xinhua said. BEIJING (Reuters) - Three people died in rioting in China's restive far west Xinjiang region on Sunday, state media reported, in a confrontation that underscored the tense divide there between Han Chinese and the Uighur ethnic minority.
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