This doesn't sound like a very serious, modern country to me. Riots can obviously occur in any country for many reasons but killing 140 people while putting down the riots is quite unusual in the developed world. The communist Chinese can never move beyond the old thugs who ran the country for decades before the new team started wearing fancy suits. Beijing is blaming all of the violence on the World Uyghur claiming separatist violence but with that government, their truth is never quite as clear as they like to suggest. Again, 140 killed?
But exiled Uighur groups adamantly rejected the Chinese government claim of a plot. They said the riot was an outpouring of pent-up anger over government policies and Han Chinese dominance of economic opportunities.
"They're blaming us as a way to distract the Uighurs' attention from the discrimination and oppression that sparked this protest," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress in exile in Sweden.
"It began as a peaceful assembly. There were thousands of people shouting to stop ethnic discrimination ... They are tired of suffering in silence."
The government's claims of conspiracy by pro-independence exiles echo the handling of rioting across Tibetan areas in March last year, which Beijing also called a plot hatched abroad.
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