QURAN STUDY LEADS TO VIOLENCE

[NUKE MECCA]

CHINA SAYS CLASH SUSPECTS MET TO STUDY QURAN
April 30, 2013

BEIJING (AP) -- The perpetrators of deadly violence last week in
China's Xinjiang region held secret Quran study sessions and possessed
extremist religious literature, authorities said Tuesday, accusations
likely to be used by Beijing as justification for its strict rules on
Islam in the vast northwestern territory.

The claims came amid new revelations about the April 23 clash in which
25 assailants, police officers and local government workers were
killed near the city of Kashgar. It was one of the deadliest incidents
of violence in Xinjiang since nearly 200 people were killed in a July
2009 ethnic riot in the regional capital, Urumqi. Police say they
arrested 19 suspects and killed six others, all of them from the
region's native Turkic Uighur Muslim ethnic group.

The group was led by Kasmu Memet, who began hosting the Quran study
sessions in September, according to an account from the Xinjiang
police that was posted to official websites. In March, they began
manufacturing swords and conducting test explosions in preparation for
carrying out a major attack this summer in densely populated areas of
Kashgar, the account said.

Although official media accounts of the incident have differed,
Tuesday's report said the clash began after government inspectors
discovered bomb making materials. The inspectors were then grabbed by
the attackers and forced into their hideout.

Other attackers then arrived at the hideout and ambushed officers
rushing to the scene before setting the building on fire, killing
those held inside, the report said. Two assailants were shot to death
in the fighting.

Members of the group then began rampaging through a market in the area
and attacked the local township government headquarters, leading to
the shooting death of one attacker, the report said. Three others then
attacked a police barracks and records offices and were all killed, it
said.

The report did not further identify the literature that was found, but
said the group also possessed three flags inscribed with slogans
promoting Islamic holy war.

A sprawling region that borders Central Asia, Afghanistan and
Pakistan, Xinjiang sees recurrent violence pitting members of the
Turkic Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) group against the
authorities and majority ethnic Han Chinese migrants. Beijing says
China faces an organized terrorist threat from radical Muslim groups
supported from overseas, but has provided little hard evidence. Many
believe violence to be the product of resentments over Han migration,
economic marginalization, and restrictions on Uighur culture and
religious life.

China imposes a raft of religious restrictions on Uighur religious
life, including barring children and government employees from
mosques, ordering young men to trim their beards and banning the
wearing of veils by women.

Beijing says it treats minorities fairly and spends billions of
dollars on improving living standards in minority areas.

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