சீன கம்யூனிஸ்டு போலீஸார்களை வாளால் வெட்டி துண்டம் துண்டமாக்கிய இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள்

சீன கம்யூனிஸ்டுகளை வாளால் வெட்டி துண்டம் துண்டமாக்கியுள்ளனர் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள்.

துண்டுதுண்டாக கிடந்த சீன கம்யூனிஸ்டு போலிஸாரை கண்டு சீனா அதிர்ந்து போயுள்ளது.

Terror gang hacked at police with swordsBy Dan Martin in Kashgar, China
August 06, 2008 03:16am
Details emerge of terrorist attack in China
Witnesses says police were hacked with swords
Blame laid on Muslim group calling for holy war

GRUESOME details emerged yesterday of Monday's terrorist attack in western China as Beijing vowed to run a safe Olympic Games.

Witnesses said attackers in the Muslim northwestern city of Kashgar ran down police officers with a truck, set off explosives and hacked the injured with machetes.

Sixteen officers were killed in the attack, with state media blaming separatists from the Uighur ethnic group - a Turkic-speaking people who have long rebelled under Chinese rule.

"It was quite sickening to watch - my wife almost threw up and had to lie down afterwards," said Wlodzislaw Duch, a Polish tourist who watched the gruesome scene unfold across the street from his hotel room.

Mr Duch said two men who appeared to be dressed in police uniforms ploughed a truck through the group of officers.

They then tossed small explosives at the stunned police, who numbered "at least a couple of dozen".

He said the attackers leapt out of the truck and hacked at the officers on the ground with short swords resembling machetes.

Muslim men who carried out the attack were carrying documents calling for a "holy war", police said yesterday.

"On the scene, police also found two knives used in the attack and some propaganda material advocating a 'holy war'," a public security ministry statement said.

The statement said the men used explosives similar to those found in a raid on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a UN-listed terrorist organisation.

The Beijing Olympic organising committee yesterday moved to quell security fears and said authorities were confident they could deal with any kind of threat to the Games opening on Friday.

"We can guarantee a safe and peaceful Olympic Games," spokesman Sun Weide said.

He said there was still no information directly linking the attack in the Xinjiang region with the Olympics.

The massacre has also sparked a row between Japan and China.

A Japanese Nippon Television Network reporter and a Chunichi Shimbun newspaper photographer suffered minor injuries when they were detained and beaten by paramilitary police as they covered the attack in Kashgar.