China: Jihad/martyrdom suicide bombing fails, eleven jihadists killed

Note Reuters’ use of sneer quotes around the word “terrorist,” as if there were reason to doubt the Chinese account despite the fact that Reuters itself records a leader of the Uighurs acknowledging that the incident happened: “A leading member of the ethnic Turkic Uighur community in exile said such attacks were a response to heavy-handed Chinese rule in the region.” Note also how Reuters highlights the Uighurs’ grievances and complaints, clearly favoring their side of the story over the Chinese side as the mainstream media always and in every case favors the Islamic supremacist version of events over that of defenders of freedom.

“China says 11 ‘terrorists’ killed in new Xinjiang unrest,” by Ben Blanchard for Reuters, February 14 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

(Reuters) – Eleven “terrorists” were killed during an attack in China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, state news agency Xinhua said, in the latest violence to hit a part of the country with a large Muslim population.

A leading member of the ethnic Turkic Uighur community in exile said such attacks were a response to heavy-handed Chinese rule in the region and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, on a visit to Beijing, expressed concern over the state of human rights in Xinjiang, to the annoyance of his hosts.

“The terrorists, riding motorbikes and cars, attacked a team of police who were gathering before the gate of a park for routine patrol at around 4 p.m. in Wushi County in the Aksu Prefecture,” Xinhua said in an English-language report.

“Police said the terrorists had (an) unknown number of LNG cylinders in their car which they had attempted to use as suicide bombs. Several terrorists were shot dead at the scene,” it added.

Eight were killed by police and three died “by their own suicide bomb”, Xinhua said.

Wushi lies close to China’s border with Kyrgyzstan. Last month the Kyrgyz government said its border guards had killed 11 people believed to be members of a militant group of Uighurs.

Xinjiang, home to the ethnic Turkic, mainly Muslim Uighur people and strategically located on the borders of central Asia, has been dogged for years by violence, which Beijing blames on Islamist militants and separatists who want to establish an independent state called East Turkestan.

“SYSTEMIC REPRESSION”

Exiles and many rights groups, however, say the real cause of the unrest is China’s policies, including restrictions on Islam and the Uighur people’s culture and language, charges the government strongly denies….

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