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   (Reuters) - Chinese police shot dead dozens of knife-wielding   
   attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two   
   towns in the western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua   
   news agency said on Tuesday.   
      
   A gang armed with knives had first attacked a police station and   
   government offices in the town of Elixku, in Shache county, it   
   said, quoting local police. Some moved on to the nearby town of   
   Huangdi, attacking civilians and smashing and setting fire to   
   six vehicles.   
      
   "Police officers at the scene shot dead dozens of members of the   
   mob," the brief report said.   
      
   An initial investigation showed that it was an "organised and   
   premeditated terrorist attack", Xinhua added.   
      
   The dead and injured include not just Uighurs but members of   
   China's majority Han Chinese population, the report said.   
      
   The U.S.-based Rebiya Kadeer, president of the exiled World   
   Uyghur Congress (Eds:Correct), called for restraint, saying in a   
   statement that she was worried "China will use this incident to   
   step up repression, causing more people to loose their freedom."   
      
   The attack took place at the end of the holy month of Ramadan,   
   which officials had tried to get Muslims in Xinjiang to ignore,   
   in an indication of what rights groups say is discrimination   
   targeting the Uighurs.   
      
   Shache, also known by its Uighur name of Yarkant, is located in   
   Xinjiang's heavily Uighur southwestern part, close to the   
   borders of Tajikistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.   
      
   Xinjiang, home to many Turkic-speaking Uighurs, has for years   
   been beset by violence, which the government blames on Islamist   
   militants or separatists who it says are bent on establishing an   
   independent state called East Turkestan.   
      
   China says Uighur militants have based themselves in countries   
   including Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years, and this   
   week China's special envoy for the Middle East said some had   
   also likely been trained in Syria and Iraq.   
      
   It was not clear why the attack was only being reported on   
   Tuesday, more than a day after it took place, though China's   
   ruling Communist Party, which values stability above all else,   
   had a habit of suppressing or delaying bad news.   
      
   Exiled Uighur groups and human rights activists say the   
   government's repressive policies in Xinjiang, including controls   
   on Islam, have provoked unrest, a claim Beijing denies.   
      
   China exercises tight control over Xinjiang, making vists by   
   foreign reporters there to independetly assess the situation   
   extremely difficult.   
      
   Xinjiang, resource-rich and strategically located on the borders   
   of central Asia, is crucial to meeting China's growing energy   
   needs.   
      
   Exiles, rights groups and many foreign experts say that most of   
   the proceeds have gone to the Han Chinese, stoking resentment   
   among Uighurs.   
      
   More than 200 people have died in unrest in Xinjiang in the past   
   year or so, the government says, prompting a tough crackdown by   
   Beijing.   
      
   Violence blamed by China on Uighur extremists has begun to   
   spread outside of Xinjiang. In March, 29 people were stabbed to   
   death at a train station in the southwestern city of Kunming.   
      
   (Additional reporting by Megha Rajagopalan and Chen Aizhu,;   
   Editing by Angus MacSwan)   
      
   http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/29/china-xinjiang-   
   idINKBN0FY1GL20140729   
      
       
      
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