Deadly Attack in Chinese Train Station by Bob Cummins

     Recently, police in Kunming, China interrogated many residents in a Muslim Uighur district.  Hours before this, a knife attack in a Kunming train station killed 29 people.  China suspects that the killer(s) could have been Uighur.  Chine is doing all it can to crack down on a group it says are militants who want to transform  Xinjiang, a remote region of China, into East Turkestan, an independent state.  Xinjiang is home to the Uighur, who chafe at restrictions the Chinese have put on them.  In Kunming, which is hundreds of miles away from Xinjiang, the Uighur community is under suspicion.
     "I alone have already been checked three times.  The police point their guns at us," said an Uighur restaurant worker.
     Uighurs said that they were interrogated for hours.
     "It's very tense now.  You can feel it," said a man running a stall.
     The event on Saturday was the first major attack blamed  on Xinjiang people since a car drove into tourists in Beijing in October, killing five total.  This attack is increasing worries that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement is spread.  It is listed as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council.  Before this incident, and the Beijing incident, the attacks were confined largely to Xinjiang, bordering former-Soviet Central Asia, Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.  More than 100 people have been killed there in the past year.

     I have mixed feelings about this.  Uighurs, according to this article, have had their houses searched, have had guns pointed at them, and have been interrogated.  If they are the ones behind the attacks, then they should be interrogated, unless maybe there is an ultra extremist branch of Uighurs.  China should do some more research and narrow it down, if so.  There is much violence coming from the Uighur community, Xinjiang, though, so I don't know what to think.  If I ruled China, I might be doing exactly what the current ruler is doing.  I'm not sure.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-train-station-attack-risks-driving-ethnic-wedge-123611434.html