New Ethnic Protests Hit China Provincial Capital

A witness stated that as many as 2,000 ethnic Han Chinese had been demonstrating in the Xinjiang province capital Urumqi. Photo by BGNES

There have been fresh protests in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where almost 200 people were killed in ethnic violence in July.

A witness stated that as many as 2,000 ethnic Han Chinese had been demonstrating in the capital Urumqi, the BBC reported.

A trigger for the protests appears to have been a spate of unexplained stabbings using hypodermic syringes.

Local media said nearly 500 people, the vast majority of them Han, had been stabbed in the past few weeks.

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua said that 15 people had been arrested over the stabbings, and that four of them had already been prosecuted.

 

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