The Fabulous Tales of The Ubiquitous Traveller » Riots in Urumqi http://silkroadtraveller.com/blog The diary of a traveller on the silk road... Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:11:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 The Life of a Uyghur http://silkroadtraveller.com/blog/2009/12/02/the-life-of-a-uyghur/ http://silkroadtraveller.com/blog/2009/12/02/the-life-of-a-uyghur/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:41:25 +0000 David Vilder http://silkroadtraveller.com/blog/?p=502
Tursun Gul, a local Uighur woman on a crutch, shouts at Chinese armored personnel carriers and soldiers wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi on July 7, 2009. Click on the image to access more pictures. Warning, some photos are shocking.

Tursun Gul, a local Uighur woman on a crutch, shouts at Chinese armored personnel carriers and soldiers wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi on July 7, 2009. Click on the image to access more pictures. Warning, some photos are shocking.

I found a testimony on a blog on Le Monde.fr, a French newspaper. Here is an excerpt.

I was in Urumqi on July 5th. The demonstration started at 5 pm. It had been announced on the web the day before. That was mainly students who were asking for justice after what had happened on June 26th at Shaogan. Rebiya Kadeer has nothing to do with that. Around 5 pm we started to gather on the People’s square, in front of the prefecture, with black t-shirts to show our message. I was with my girlfriend. We were around 200, 300 people, mostly students. Then some more came to support us. Ultimately we were more than 3000. Among us were even some Uyghurs officials working for the government.

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