Chinese authorities have tightened security following an attack in the country's northwestern Xinjiang province, which killed 16 police officers and injured 16 more.
China blames Muslim separatists for the attack in the city of Kashgar, which is home to many ethnic Uigher Muslims. State media report that two separatist militants threw homemade explosive at a group of 70 police officers jogging near their barracks. The province's eight million largely Muslim Uighurs have been the Halal, Kosher Slaughter Unacceptable, say German Vets ...
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Dalai Lama critical of Chinese "suppression" ... focus of intense scrutiny in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics that open on Friday. The Chinese government has repeatedly said that it is threatened by terrorism in Xinjiang. Meanwhile the human rights commissioner of the German parliament, Guenther Nooke, is due to begin a four day fact-finding mission in Beijing, to get an impression of human rights in China on the eve of the Olympics.
(Deutsche Welle)
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