Mobs attack XinJiang, PRC police station

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Occured at Hotan(和田) city of XinJiang Uygur Autonomous Region(新疆维吾尔自治区),southwest of RPC, which close to Afghanistan.

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BEIJING - Police gunned down several rioters after they attacked a police station in Hotan of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, sources with the Ministry of Public Security said on Monday.

Rioters rushed into the police station, took hostages and set fire to the station, according to the ministry. A member of the armed police, a security personnel and two hostages were killed during the ordeal, the ministry added.

The police quickly converged on the scene and shot a number of rioters while freeing six hostages, the ministry said, adding that the injured are currently hospitalized.
The national counter-terrorism office of China has dispatched a working team to Xinjiang.​

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Peace to the families of local policemen and security personnel that lost their lives.

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Those aren't mobs... they've killed two policemen and two hostages. If those aren't terrorists I don't know what qualifies as terrorists.

siegecrossbow said:

Those aren't mobs... they've killed two policemen and two hostages. If those aren't terrorists I don't know what qualifies as terrorists.

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Yeah, I don't know why they're called "mobs" or "rioters". Mis-translation from Chinese, perhaps? Those are clearly terrorists.

Mobs are not that organized. Are these possibly "outside agitators"???..trying to drum up trouble like two years ago??

solarz said:

Yeah, I don't know why they're called "mobs" or "rioters". Mis-translation from Chinese, perhaps? Those are clearly terrorists.

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I am not quite sure about that. Terrorist is someone who targets civilians. When someone target government organs, it's something else.

nemo said:

I am not quite sure about that. Terrorist is someone who targets civilians. When someone target government organs, it's something else.

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No, government workers, including Law Enforcement, are very much civilians.

nemo said:

I am not quite sure about that. Terrorist is someone who targets civilians. When someone target government organs, it's something else.

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Most government organs contain mostly civilians. Also, would you not call the Cole bombing or the Beirut bombing acts of terrorism?

nemo said:

I am not quite sure about that. Terrorist is someone who targets civilians. When someone target government organs, it's something else.

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Dude. Going by your definition the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon is not a terrorist attack and neither is the attack on U.S.S. Cole.

bd popeye said:

Mobs are not that organized. Are these possibly "outside agitators"???..trying to drum up trouble like two years ago??

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Same thoughts as I read the title of this thread. This one SHAN'T garner any "sympathy" from the international community because clearly there's nothing to sympathize about when they take hostages. And I don't think mobs take hostages. That already is not your usual ways of day-to-day protests.

solarz said:

Yeah, I don't know why they're called "mobs" or "rioters". Mis-translation from Chinese, perhaps? Those are clearly terrorists.

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Yes, it's a mistranslation. The Chinese report says, literally "a group of religious extremists carrying jihadist slogans, swords, axes, molotov cocktails among other weapons." I think they translated the words 一群， which means a group or a bunch of something into mob.