China threatens death penalty for Xinjiang rioters

Li Zhi, a Communist Party secretary of Urumqi, said many people suspected of inciting the riots between ethnic Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese had now been arrested, including some students.
The official arrest rising to 1434 people, but has been popular complaints that the police arrested the Uighurs at random.



"For those who do not have an offense is cruel, we will take them," said Mr Li. "For small groups of violent people are already covered by the police. The situation is now under control."
Meng Jianzhu China's public security minister reflected on his promising that leaders of the riots, which began Sunday, would be punishable as "high severity".

China has accused Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the World Uighur Congress, who lives in exile in Washington, masterminding the riots.

Authorities also said to explore a number of websites that will help organize the events. Radio Free Asia has reported that Ilham Tohti, a plain-spoken economist, Uighur, who lives in Beijing and who was publicly named as a possible instigator 5 July, has disappeared.

"The police have been following my home for two days now," said Mr Tohti, a professor of economics in Central Nationalities University in Beijing on Tuesday. "They are calling me, and now we have to go. I may be out of touch for some time," he told RFA's Uyghur service. "I was not involved in anything, but I am not safe. The police called me," Tohti said, and then hung. Subsequent phone calls, rang unanswered.

Mr Tohti claimed he had collected information about confrontation, but it does not release it because the timing was too sensitive. His blog, Uighur Online, considered to be moderate and intellectual property and Internet pages, but it is closed with the authorities on several occasions, and it is directed in particular in his speech on Monday by Nur Bekri, the governor and the Xinjiang region.

It Urumqi, the apparent normal life returned to the city where people walk dogs, and practice Tai Chi, and parks. For the first day after the riots broke out, offices and shops reopened.
Xinhua, the state news wire, said that many neighborhood stores were sold out of food and bottled water, and that prices have doubled or tripled in the city, despite an emergency call from the 25 rail cars vegetables to alleviate the shortage.

A heavy police presence continued to blanket the city with the squads in each corner, convoys of trucks moving through the city and helicopters whirring overhead costs.

Jerla Isamuddin, mayor of Urumqi, it became apparent that some 100 and 156 reports of riot control victims had now been identified and their bodies returned to their families. Experts have DNA tests to identify the others.



Nine bodies to identify, because they are too badly burned. No breakdown is given of the dead, who were the Han, or Uighur, but witnesses who have been given access to the corpses said the majority of Han.








Source : telegraph.co.uk