Εθνικές διαφωνίες σε Κίνα - National disagreements in China

Την Κυριακή, 5η Ιουλίου στην Κίνα, χιλιάδες κάτοικοι συνεπλάκησαν με την αστυνομία έξω από ένα εργοστάσιο παιχνιδιών, που τελείωσε με τουλάχιστον δύο θανάτους. Οι πολίτες ξύπνησαν το επόμενο πρωί για να μάθουν ότι πάνω από 1.000 άνθρωποι ήταν τραυματισμένοι και 156 σκοτωμένοι στην πόλη τους.

On Sunday, July 5th in Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang region, thousands of minority ethnic Uighur residents marched, demanding a government investigation into an earlier incident - a brawl between Han Chinese and Uighurs in a toy factory in Shaoguan that ended with at least two Uighur deaths. Sometime during the July 5th protest the situation became very violent, Uighurs clashing with police and attacking local Han Chinese. Urumqi citizens woke the next morning to learn that over 1,000 people had been injured and 156 killed in their city. Government forces worked to quell the violence and to separate the newly-formed Han vigilante groups and the Uighurs still in the streets. Communications were shut off, streets closed, curfews imposed, hundreds arrested, and thousands of troops poured into Urumqi, which remains tense - several clashes reported even today.