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http://www.dossiertibet.it Uighurs attacked a police station More than a hundred people, riding motorbikes and wielding knifes, attacked a police station in the latest unrest to hit the region in the past week.The attack in the remote desert city of Hotan,comes two days after the region's deadliest unrest in four years that resulted in the deaths of 35 people.China called the incident a "terrorist attack".In a separate incident, some 200 people attempted to "incite trouble" at a major shopping area in Hotan.Chinese authorities have increased security in Urumqi. Photographs on Chinese microblogs showed dozens of military trucks with riot police patrolling the streets. The increased security comes almost a week before the fourth anniversary of the July 2009 riots in Xinjiang that pitted Uighurs against Chinese, resulting in nearly 200 people being killed. In a sign of the gravity of the situation, Xinjiang's top party chief Zhang Chunxian said: "We should be clearly aware of the complex and acute nature of the long-term struggle against separatism," according to the Xinjiang Daily, the official newspaper of the region. "For those who dare to defy the law, the criminals who engage in violent terrorist activities have to be punished. We can't tolerate them, we have to hold no punches," the People's Daily said in a front-page editorial.
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