Five Dead After 'Terror Attack,' Explosion in China's Xinjiang - RFA

[TomSea]

Five Dead After 'Terror Attack,' Explosion in China's Xinjiang

UPDATED at 5:40 P.M. EST on 2016-12-29

Chinese police have shot dead three suspects who they said killed two people in a "terrorist" attack on a branch office of the ruling Chinese Communist Party in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, official media reported on Thursday.

The "rioters" detonated an explosive device during the attack on Wednesday afternoon, as well as launching a knife attack, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

"At around 4:50 p.m. Wednesday ... rioters entered the yard of Moyu County Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in a vehicle, attacked workers with knives and detonated an explosive device," it cited the ministry of public security as saying.

The attack killed an official and a security worker and injured three others, the report said, adding that three people were shot dead at the scene and that the case is now under investigation.

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Looks like it's hard to get a real full blown terrorist attack going in China, they are such a police state and some of these regions like this one, seem fairly remote.

[240B]

Looks like it's hard to get a real full blown terrorist attack going in China, they are such a police state and some of these regions like this one, seem fairly remote.

Also, China and Japan have very strict policies concerning Muslims.

[HonestJohn]

This isn't an Islam issue, but a Uyghur issue.  There are two Islamic ethnicities in Xinjiang, the Hui (descendants of Islamic merchants from the Middle East) and the Uyghurs.  The Uyghurs want to kick the Chinese out and create their own state, but China (obviously) and the Hui do not.

To combat this, China has been moving large numbers of Han and Hui into Xinjiang over the decades and, as a result, the Uyghurs know that the demographic clock is ticking.

However, with every bomb and knife attack, China incentivizes more Han and Hui to move to Xinjiang.  Some get a free home and land if they move.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/china-seeks-new-wave-migrants-restive-xinjiang/#.WGqFsh5OnxA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_Xinjiang#People.27s_Republic_of_China

http://www.economist.com/news/china/21578433-region-plagued-ethnic-strife-growth-immigrant-dominated-settlements-adding