Uighur children ate lunch at a local bazaar, Saturday (5/4) in Hotan, autonomous region Xinjiang Uygur. Blâmé Chinese authorities a group of Muslim citizens as the riots that took place recently in Xinjiang. This region also wanted independence from China.
WASHINGTON - A leader of the Uighur ethnic Chinese minority, Monday, concerned the safety of dozens of people that he thought the injury in a clash with police in the region of Xinjiang and then arrested.
Rebiya Kadeer, head of the World Congress of the Uighurs based in the United States, said about 70 citizens of Uighur moving injury to a civilian prison to a military hospital after prison violence, on 18 July, in the city of Hotan desert. "They collect citizens Uighur and taken to a military hospital." It is obvious that if a Uighur residents were taken to a military hospital, he will never be released living, "said Rebiya told AFP.
He says that the Uighurs filed a complaint over the years on military prisons. He accused, prisoners in the past, assassinated, perhaps to take the bodies of the body, a long practice alleged militants. Media said Government China, 18 people were killed in Hotan, oasis of the Silk Road in the region, in an action violent to the police station.
Media Government says that it was a terrorist attack. A group to attack a police station and killed four people. Police then shot and killed the attackers.
Call this number and said Rebiya dead may be higher. A spokesman for his Group expressed last week told AFP that 20 protesters had been killed. He said that the Uighurs inhabitants came to the police station and try to see the personnel of the security apparatus to request an explanation of the disappearance of their members. The Rebiya action, saying: they are not violent action.
"I certainly oppose the action violent, but in this case, the pemerotes attacked the Chinese police and they respond to defend themselves." They have the right to know where their relatives have been arrested, "he said." "" It is very different from Western countries where the police were there to protect people against the attacks. In China, police detained easily if this person is suspected of criminals, "he said." "They are people of portfolio whenever they want, they hit the people when they want to".
Xinjiang, a vast arid region is rich in natural resources but bordering Central Asia. There are more than eight million people are ethnic Uighurs, who speak the language of the Turkey and most of the religion of Islam. Many are not happy with the condition that they designate as tens of years are the pressure of the authorities. They are not as happy with the arrival of people ethnic Han, which is the majority ethnic group in China.
The Government said nearly 200 people have died and 1,700 injured people in a riot of 2009 in the area of the capital of Urumqi, where eyewitnesses describe as a retaliatory attack against ethnic Chinese ethnic Uighur Han in the worst bloodshed in decades in China.
Group of human rights Human Rights Watch (HRW) based in New York in the last annual report, hundreds of people were arrested after riots in Urumqi their fate remains unknown. Said Rebiya hold Chinese authorities citizens are the Uighurs in searches from House to house in Hotan causing frustrated frustration. He said citizens are looking for information on their detained colleagues.
Rebiya, authorities have executed some 40 residents of the Uighurs in recent months. He accused sends it to the United States the wrong sign to China, referring to the Communist Party in Xinjiang Chief visits, Zhang Chunxian in Washington last month.
Rebiya, former owner of the convenience stores conglomerates and the mother of 11 children, spent six years in prison until China he released in 2005 and has now settled at the United States. China has claimed since he incited the riots. Rebiya has denied the allegations.
