China launches terrorism crackdown after Xinjiang region attack

May 23, 2014

HONG KONG - China is an open market , a series of explosions in Xinjiang , state news agency western China killed dozens in a day after the crackdown launched against terrorism, told Xinhua on Friday .
Without any details , authorities reported at least 39 people dead and over 90 injured, according to state media , after an explosion in the heavily fortified city of Islamabad in the volatile region, "offensive a year on violent terrorist activities "took . The figure does not include dead attackers .
Five attackers were responsible for the explosion of the state news agency reported on Friday ; The explosion killed four , and a fifth was arrested Thursday . They were identified through DNA testing, Xinhua said.
We visited in Bangkok, including the smuggling of weapons , in an attempt to curb the security checks at ports of entry tighter , luggage transport services at land borders and postal delivery , Xinhua reported Friday .
After visiting the wounded and the scene of the explosion, Guo Shengkun , called for severe punishment for those responsible for public security minister , state media reported .
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Two SUVs 7:50 am Thursday, shoppers gather in Urumqi market crashed and the explosives were thrown out of the vehicle , Xinhua said.
Vehicles, according to the news agency , exploded.
Burning debris scattered on the ground in some of the pictures circulating on social media agency offering a hellish scene. Others are protected by the police at the end of a tree lined street and smoke coming out of the flames showed .
' A great word '
"I have a great sound, and then I looked up from my ear balcony, " only his surname, Dong, who said that a resident of a building near the blast.
Believed to be a lot of trees obscured the scene, but told CNN that " the injured person , could see what was chaos . "
Who regularly visited the market was caught in the explosion , many of the victims are elderly , reported Xinhua.
"It's mainly vegetables, cooked vegetables and buy early to get those people coming to trade, particularly in the elderly ," Shan said.
The U.S. government condemned the attack.
"This is a disgusting and terrible act of violence against innocent civilians , and the United States all forms of terrorism are strongly opposed ," said press secretary Jay Carney White House said in a statement .
The recent series of attacks
Chinese authorities in the region and in other major Chinese cities in a series of attacks in recent months has intensified security measures in Xinjiang.
Wednesday, Xinhua 39 people in Xinjiang " inciting violence " has been sentenced to prison in the last two months of the report.
But Thursday's devastating explosion suggest that the government is facing a determined enemy to wreak havoc.
Three people died in the attack and 79 others were injured in an explosion struck a railway station in Bangkok, comes less than a month later.
April 30 explosion occurred just after Xi was possessed of a visit to the region.
Ethnic tensions
Islamic separatists in Xinjiang to Chinese authorities in the southwestern city of Kunming is a train station in March that killed 29 people on a link band knife attack .
They crashed a car on a pedestrian bridge and burst into flames , and the three occupants of the car , killing two tourists in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in October separatists blamed for attacks you .
Tiananmen Square and the attack hit the car in Kunming knife - wielding attackers after lungi , a Turk who speaks of Xinjiang , ethnic group mainly Muslim is identified as .
After Lungi and racial tensions between the Chinese have , millions of whom have migrated to Xinjiang is rich in resources in recent decades , several times in recent years has spilled over into deadly riots and clashes with the authorities.
After lungi took the lion's share of economic opportunities Xinjiang and Han Chinese security forces have expressed resentment over the harsh treatment of the people. Over 90 % of the total population of the Han , the dominant ethnic group in China.
Objectives change
Pattern of ethnic violence in the region, James Leibold , Melbourne, Australia La Trobe University in China, according to an expert in race relations back decades .
" But what 's new, and what I think is important , we have a change in the target," Leibold said. " We meet every innocent civilians, innocent civilians , the place has a purpose - . Enormous amounts of innocent civilians in an attempt to maul "
Other changes on the other side of the Chinese border violence of Xinjiang " filtered out " were said .
It is unclear who is behind the recent high-profile attacks .
Chinese officials responsible for the violent incidents in the past , which is an unknown separatist group , the East Turkestan Islamic Movement , said . Groups Read Xinjiang Uyghur East Turkestan is the name used .
But analysts say the group's activities and global terrorist networks like al- Qaeda is divided on the extent of their links .
"In general, the reaction is to blame the terrorists without giving too many details, " Leibold said. "This is like the previous ones, so I doubt that's going to be very difficult to get to the bottom of . "