At least 21 persons, including community workers and police officers, were killed in China’s volatile Xinjiang province in a series of “terrorist bomb attacks,” officials said today.
Confirming reports of incidents of “terrorist violence” which took place yesterday in Bachu county near Kashgar city in the Xinjiang province, Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, in a media briefing here today, said that 21 persons were killed.
She said the area witnessed a series of bomb attacks in which 21 people were killed including six suspects who were shot dead by the police. Eight suspects have been arrested.
State-run Xinhua news agency said that the dead included 15 community workers and police officers. This is the first major attack here since the new leadership headed by President Xi Jinping took over power last month.
The trouble began when three community workers found suspicious individuals and knives in the home of a local resident. They then reported the matter to their supervisors over phone, but were taken hostage by the suspects who had been hiding in the house, the Xinhua report said.
The police officers and community officials who rushed to the scene were attacked and killed.
The three community workers who had been taken captive were also killed and their house burnt. Police reinforcements which then arrived there shot at the suspects and brought the situation under control.
An initial investigation has indicated that the suspects were all terrorists who were planning violent attacks, the report said.
Besides the six suspects, the dead included 10 Han Chinese, two Uygur Muslims and three Chinese Mongolians, the spokesperson said.
Uygurs who constitute over 45 per cent of Xinjiang province, bordering Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Afghanistan resent the growing settlement of Hans, the majority Chinese race, who now constitute 40 per cent of the population. — PTI
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Xinjiang has been frequently hit by heavy violence between native Uygurs, Muslims of Turkic origin and Han Chinese settlers in the past few years
French president starts China visit
BEIJING - French President Francois Hollande arrived in Beijing on Thursday, starting his state visit to China.
During his trip, President Xi Jinping will hold talks with Hollande. Premier Li Keqiang and Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, will also meet with him.
At Xi's invitation, Hollande will visit China from April 25 to 26.
No first use of nuclear weapons
China has not changed the policy it has persistently upheld for half a century and other countries should also commit to it
On April 16 the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China released its latest defense white paper. As usual, this document attracted immediate media attention and triggered wide-ranging discussions about the intentions and capabilities of China's armed forces. One speculation has been that China might have changed or be considering changes to its long-held nuclear weapons policy of no first use, because for the first time the white paper has failed to reiterate China's pledge not to use nuclear weapons first.
However, a careful reading of this year's white paper and a study of all such papers since 1998 easily explains the conspicuous absence of this key phrase, which is usually repeated in Chinese official documents on defense and nuclear policy.
First, unlike previous white papers, which have been about China's national defense, the latest edition was on the diversified employment of China's armed forces. It has changed from a comprehensive elaboration of China's national defense to a more focused discussion on a specific aspect.
Major General Chen Zhou, a senior researcher and a key author of the white paper, explained in an interview that this is the first white paper that adopted a thematic approach so that the subject could be dealt with more thoroughly. Compared with previous editions, this year's white paper has no section on national defense policy, which is the section that usually contains the commitment to no first use of nuclear weapons
Second, in the section on The Building and Development of China's Armed Forces, the force structure, missions and roles of the People's Liberation Army Second Artillery Force are specified, stating that its nuclear component is "responsible for deterring other countries from using nuclear weapons against China, and carrying out nuclear counterattacks". This conforms with China's policy of no first use.
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