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   From: mormoninfo@yahoo.com   
      
   CHINA SAYS CLASH SUSPECTS MET TO STUDY QURAN   
   April 30, 2013   
      
   BEIJING (AP) -- The perpetrators of deadly violence last week in   
   China's Xinjiang region held secret Quran study sessions and possessed   
   extremist religious literature, authorities said Tuesday, accusations   
   likely to be used by Beijing as justification for its strict rules on   
   Islam in the vast northwestern territory.   
      
   The claims came amid new revelations about the April 23 clash in which   
   25 assailants, police officers and local government workers were   
   killed near the city of Kashgar. It was one of the deadliest incidents   
   of violence in Xinjiang since nearly 200 people were killed in a July   
   2009 ethnic riot in the regional capital, Urumqi. Police say they   
   arrested 19 suspects and killed six others, all of them from the   
   region's native Turkic Uighur Muslim ethnic group.   
      
   The group was led by Kasmu Memet, who began hosting the Quran study   
   sessions in September, according to an account from the Xinjiang   
   police that was posted to official websites. In March, they began   
   manufacturing swords and conducting test explosions in preparation for   
   carrying out a major attack this summer in densely populated areas of   
   Kashgar, the account said.   
      
   Although official media accounts of the incident have differed,   
   Tuesday's report said the clash began after government inspectors   
   discovered bomb making materials. The inspectors were then grabbed by   
   the attackers and forced into their hideout.   
      
   Other attackers then arrived at the hideout and ambushed officers   
   rushing to the scene before setting the building on fire, killing   
   those held inside, the report said. Two assailants were shot to death   
   in the fighting.   
      
   Members of the group then began rampaging through a market in the area   
   and attacked the local township government headquarters, leading to   
   the shooting death of one attacker, the report said. Three others then   
   attacked a police barracks and records offices and were all killed, it   
   said.   
      
   The report did not further identify the literature that was found, but   
   said the group also possessed three flags inscribed with slogans   
   promoting Islamic holy war.   
      
   A sprawling region that borders Central Asia, Afghanistan and   
   Pakistan, Xinjiang sees recurrent violence pitting members of the   
   Turkic Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) group against the   
   authorities and majority ethnic Han Chinese migrants. Beijing says   
   China faces an organized terrorist threat from radical Muslim groups   
   supported from overseas, but has provided little hard evidence. Many   
   believe violence to be the product of resentments over Han migration,   
   economic marginalization, and restrictions on Uighur culture and   
   religious life.   
      
   China imposes a raft of religious restrictions on Uighur religious   
   life, including barring children and government employees from   
   mosques, ordering young men to trim their beards and banning the   
   wearing of veils by women.   
      
   Beijing says it treats minorities fairly and spends billions of   
   dollars on improving living standards in minority areas.   
      
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