Chinese President calls for a sharp response to deadly attack in Xinjiang

Chinese President Xi Jinping has has responded sharply to terrorism after the attack with bombs and stabbing at a train station in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, home to the Muslim Uighur minority, in which three people died, among them, the two attackers, and 79 wounded. “The battle to combat violence and terrorism will not allow a moment of carelessness, and we must take strong action to remove firmly unbridled momentum of terrorist actions “, said Xi, as reported on Thursday the official Xinhua news agency.

The attackers jumped on people downloading knife and detonated bombs at 7:10 in the afternoon “in an area that had baggage on the floor between the exit of the station, and a bus stop. ” The agency described the violence of terrorist attack, according to the regional government of Xinjiang, was executed by two religious extremists. Only one of them has been identified: Sedierding Shawuti, a man of 39 Xayar County in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, reports Reuters. Judging by its name, is Uighur.

At other times, Beijing has also accused religious extremist groups with support from outside China, but has been careful not to blame the Uighur population. In the post-incident review, Xi said that the authorities are engaged in a long-term battle against separatists in Xinjiang.

The People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – has said on its official microblog that “two gangsters did explode bombs they carried in their bodies and died,” reports Reuters; but has taken great care to describe what occurred attempting suicide, which may indicate an attempt to not publicize the incident in order to halt a possible effect of copy. The third deceased person is a resident.

This is the first time in 17 years that a bomb attack in Urumqi occurs, and the time seems to have been carefully chosen to challenge the government. The attack occurred in the final stage of the visit of the Chinese president  to Xinjiang, but has not disclosed where he was at that time. During the trip, Xi visited a police officials to emphasize the support from central to security in this region of western China Government.

Xinjiang regularly suffers armed attacks and outbreaks of violence, but increasingly seem to be better organized and seek to produce casualties among the civilian population, whereas before they were mainly directed against police and military. Two months ago, 29 people who were in the train station of Kunming died and 143 were injured by asustadas stabbed indiscriminately by a group of ” Xinjiang separatist terrorists,” according to the government. Four of the attackers, including a woman, were shot dead by the police, a fifth – well, woman was injured, and the remaining three were arrested. The attack shocked the nation for its brutality, because it was aimed at civilians and that spread to other provinces of China the ethnic violence that regularly shakes Xinjiang, and, until recently, was confined to this region.

Many Uighurs harbor strong resentment against Beijing for what they consider repression of their culture and religious practices, and discrimination by the Han, the majority ethnic group in China, which controls the political and economic life of this area rich in natural resources. According to some exile organizations and human rights, this is the cause of outbreaks of violence. Peking attributed to separatist organizations. More than 100 people have died in the last year in separate incidents in Xinjiang, according to Chinese media.

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