An unusual admission though they are pitching the "to maintain security one has to use any means possible" which is so familiar with America from the Bush years. Of course, the Uighurs are the same ethnic group that China allegedly interrogated at Gitmo in 2002. The Guardian:
The Chinese authorities today acknowledged shooting dead 12 Uighur rioters in Xinjiang this month, in a rare acknowledgement of deaths at the hands of security forces.
Nuer Baikeli, governor of the north-western region, said police had exercised "the greatest restraint" as they sought to suppress riots in the capital Urumqi.
Brutal inter-ethnic violence over several days left 197 dead and more than 1,700 wounded. Last week the government offered the first breakdown of fatalities, saying 137 Han and 46 Uighurs died. But until now officials have given few details of when and how people met their deaths.
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