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Police chief stresses stability as situation in Urumqi comes under control
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-05 03:50 URUMQI: China's Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu labeled maintaining stability as "the central task of overriding importance" in Xinjiang, as situation in Urumqi City came under control Friday. Meng, who arrived in Urumqi Friday, a day after five people died in massive protests against syringe attacks Thursday, urged local governments and Communist Party of China (CPC) committees at all levels in Xinjiang "to restore social order as soon as possible." "Maintaining stability is the central task of overriding importance in Xinjiang at the present time," he said. Tens of thousands of people in Urumqi took to streets on Thursday to protest against syringe attacks, and the city did not quiet down until late in the night. Situation was under control Friday, as there were no major protests in the city, said Executive Deputy Mayor Zhang Hong. Small crowds, which gathered "in a few locations" Friday, were soon dispersed and nobody was killed, said Zhang. STABILITY OF OVERRIDING IMPORTANCE The recent syringe attacks, which were premeditated, masterminded and conducted by law-breakers and instigated by ethnic separatist forces, were a continuation of the July 5 incident in the city, Meng said.
The syringe attacks came less than two months after the July 5 Urumqi riot when 197 people, mostly from the Han ethnic group, were killed, and 1,600 others injured. "They plotted to undermine ethnic unity and stir up ethnic division. Fellow citizens of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang should sharpen their vigilance and not be fooled by law-breakers," Meng said Friday. "Social stability is the guarantee and precondition of Xinjiang's development. Without it, nothing can be accomplished and everything we have achieved will be lost," he said. Meng said those involved in violence, assaults, vandalism, looting and burning, and those who disrupt social order by different means or undermine ethnic unity, shall be punished according to the law without exception, whatever their ethnicity is. |
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