Secretary of State Clinton urges restraint on all sides in ethnic-based riots in western China
By APTuesday, July 7, 2009
Clinton urges restraint in riots in western China
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging restraint in clashes in western China.
Clinton told reporters Tuesday that the United States is “deeply concerned” about worsening ethnic violence in China’s oil-rich Xinjiang territory.
She says the United States is “trying to sort out” the situation. Meanwhile, she says, “the most immediate matter is to bring the violence to a conclusion.”
She says the United States is “calling on all sides to exercise restraint.”
Han Chinese, the ethnic majority, wielding steel pipes, meat cleavers and sticks, rampaged Tuesday responding to riots by Muslim Uighurs that killed 156 people Sunday. Uighurs have been angered by the June 25 deaths of Uighur factory workers killed in a brawl in the southern Chinese city of Shaoguan.
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