{"id":169230,"date":"2014-02-18T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T01:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=169230"},"modified":"2014-02-18T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T01:46:28","slug":"uyghur-advocates-share-different-account-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/uyghur-advocates-share-different-account-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur Advocates Speak Out After Deadly Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times on the<strong> <a title=\"Differing Accounts of Recent Violence in Xinjiang\" href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/17\/china-details-bombing-attack-by-uighur-gang\/\">differing accounts of the recent violence in Xinjiang<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0which left\u00a0<a title=\"8 Shot Dead In Xinjiang While Attacking Police\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/02\/8-shot-dead-xinjiang-attacking-police\/\">11 people dead in the county of Wushi last Friday:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey listened to audio products and watched videos of terrorism content and carried out physical training,\u201d the report read. \u201cThey purchased vehicles, made explosive devices and hacking knives since January and did trial explosions several times to prepare for attacks on police vehicles, according to the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But advocates of Uighur self-determination say the Chinese authorities\u2019 own overbearing security measures have fueled primitive convulsions of violence by dispossessed Uighurs. The government has distorted and exaggerated the ethnic violence to undermine legitimate Uighur demands, the advocates say.<\/p>\n<p>The World Uyghur Congress, a group with headquarters in Munich that campaigns for self-determination for Xinjiang (and uses an alternative spelling of Uighur),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=21965%20WUC%20IS%20ALARMED%20BY%20THE%20INCIDENT%20IN%20UCHTURPAN\">said\u00a0<\/a>the government\u2019s account of bloodshed in Wushi County had followed that template.\u00a0[<a title=\"Differing Accounts of Recent Violence in Xinjiang\" href=\"http:\/\/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/17\/china-details-bombing-attack-by-uighur-gang\/\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more on <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/xinjiang-violence\/\">violence in Xinjiang<\/a>,\u00a0see prior CDT coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Buckley reports for The New York Times on the 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