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THE UIGHURS OF XINJIANG ARE AN ETHNIC MUSLIM MINORITY.
For years, many Uighurs and other smaller Muslim minorities in Xinjiang have agitated against China’s authoritarian government. Their protests are a reaction, Uighur groups say, to oppressive official policies, religious restrictions and widespread discrimination.
5 questions on Xinjiang separatists, Uighurs and the knife attacks at …
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The Wall Street Journal
China News
A makeshift memorial of candles was arranged in a heart shape around the numerals 3-01, for the March 1 date of the attack that resulted in 33 people killed at a train station in Kunming.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304071004579414243691552578
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RTHKGreaterChinaNews Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:18:24 +0800 3 suspects arrested over Kunming attack http://t.rthk.hk/cc2vu
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The Wall Street Journal
China News
Xinjiang Separatists Said to Be Behind Attack at Train Station
More Than 10 Assailants With Knives Stormed Kunming Station
BEIJING—A mass knife attack at a train station that left 33 dead over the weekend signaled Chinese authorities are facing a significant escalation of a long-simmering separatist movement.
Saturday’s assault marked the second time in a little over four months that Chinese authorities say separatists from the Xinjiang region—which borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and former Soviet Central Asia—have carried out a relatively complex and carefully planned attack outside their home territory.
At least 10 assailants armed with long knives and dressed in black stormed through a crowded train station Saturday night in the southwestern city of Kunming, slashing people at random, according to state media. Police shot and killed four assailants, arrested one, and were searching for five others, state media said. Thirty-three died, including the attackers, and at least 130 were injured.
It was the deadliest attack ever attributed to Xinjiang separatists outside their home territory and marks a departure in tactics.
Targets in the past have usually been police, paramilitary barracks and other symbols of Chinese government authority, and attacks have mainly been staged inside Xinjiang.
The scale and relative sophistication of the Kunming attack poses a test for President Xi Jinping and the new commission he established to improve coordination among security agencies, which often have conflicting agendas and compete for resources, according to Chinese security analysts.
“This attack in Kunming was not something that could have been planned in one or two months,” said Li Wei, director of the Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations.
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The attacks in Beijing and Kunming—although still relatively crude, without firearms or explosives—suggest that some separatists are becoming more radical and better-organized, according to Mr. Li and other Chinese experts on security and Xinjiang.
Reports that the attackers all wore black suggested that they were organized and trying to maximize psychological impact, said Mr. Li. The reported involvement of women in the Beijing and Kunming attacks also showed that separatist groups were no longer only recruiting men, he said.
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云南昆明火车站上周六晚突受疆独恐怖分子血洗，至今增至33人死、143人伤，其中75人重伤，震惊全球。此为疆独势力首次大规模跨省犯案，并屠杀平民。由于部分凶手在逃和小道消息满天飞，当局恐事件向其他城市蔓延，全国多地包括北京、成都和广州等纷纷加强戒备，一时间风声鹤唳，草木皆兵。
恐袭发生后，小道消息满天飞。有传在逃的恐怖分子将发动第2波袭击，也有传昆明只是恐袭目标之一，共有5个小组已分赴各地，发动连环报复。中国各大城市都加强防范。
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The Guardian 
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TERROR AND DEATH AT KUNMING RAILWAY STATION!
Kunming, about 1,300 miles southwest of Beijing, is a bustling university town and major commercial hub on trade routes linking southern China to neighbouring Vietnam.
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At least 27 dead, dozens injured in knife-wielding spree in China; officials call attack a terrorist strike
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NBC News
33 Dead, 130 Injured in China Knife-Wielding Spree
A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and injuring more than 130 others in what Chinese officials called a terrorist strike, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Four of the attackers were also shot dead and only one was captured alive after the mayhem, which broke out about 9 p.m. (8 a.m. ET) at the Kunming Railway Station in the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
The Kunming government said the “serious violent terrorist attack was planned and organized by Xinjiang separatist forces,” Xinhua reported.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/33-dead-130-injured-china-knife-wielding-spree-n41966
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BEIJING (AFP) – Separatists from China’s northwest region of Xinjiang orchestrated the attack on a train station which left 29 dead, the Xinhua news agency reported Sunday, quoting the city government.
It said evidence from the scene of the attack late Saturday in Kunming by a group of knife-wielding people pointed to separatists from Xinjiang, a vast region home to the mostly-Muslim Uighur minority.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2014/03/02/Xinjiang-separatists-behind-deadly-China/
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02 March 2014| last updated at 08:25AM
Mass stabbing at China rail station leaves 28 dead in ‘terrorist attack’
BEIJING: A mass stabbing at a Chinese train station late Saturday left 28 people dead and 113 injured in a “violent terrorist attack”, state media said.
Read more: Mass stabbing at China rail station leaves 28 dead in ‘terrorist attack’ – Latest – New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/latest/mass-stabbing-at-china-rail-station-leaves-28-dead-in-terrorist-attack-1.496375#ixzz2ulIYdfhk
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市内人心惶惶
云南昆明火车站发生恐怖袭击后，当地流传该批凶徒仍有馀党潜伏市内，准备到处投毒，发动更大的恐怖袭击。现时，昆明市内人心惶惶，谣言满天。亦有网民猜测，昆明可能只是一个试点，更多的恐怖袭击可能将在全国爆发。而凶徒穿着统一服饰，证实事件早有预谋。
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