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Following reports of ill-treatment of a Uighur migrant worker in Guangdong province, Uighurs in Xinjiang started a riot in the provincial capital, Urumqi. Before police managed to quell the ethnic inspired unrest, nearly 200 people had been killed[1] — mostly Han Chinese[2]

The Chinese government came down hard against the Muslim Uighurs in the name of anti-separatism and counter-terrorism[3]

References

  1. ↑ Death sentences for Xinjiang riot
  2. ↑ Most Xinjiang dead Han Chinese
  3. ↑ China: Religious Repression of Uighur Muslims April 2005 Human Rights Watch
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