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| Angry Uighurs defy Chinese police | Angry Uighurs defy Chinese police |
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| New protests have flared in Urumqi, two days after 156 people died and 800 were injured in the western Chinese city. | New protests have flared in Urumqi, two days after 156 people died and 800 were injured in the western Chinese city. |
| At least 200 Uighurs faced off against police in Urumqi on Tuesday following news that 1,434 people were arrested in connection with Sunday's riots. | At least 200 Uighurs faced off against police in Urumqi on Tuesday following news that 1,434 people were arrested in connection with Sunday's riots. |
| Trouble also spread outside of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, with protests on Monday near a mosque in Kashgar. | Trouble also spread outside of Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, with protests on Monday near a mosque in Kashgar. |
| Beijing blames ethnic Muslim Uighurs for the violence, but exiled Uighurs say police fired on students. | Beijing blames ethnic Muslim Uighurs for the violence, but exiled Uighurs say police fired on students. |
| 'Extraordinary defiance' | 'Extraordinary defiance' |
| The BBC's Quentin Somerville, on the streets of Urumqi, says at least 200 people - mostly elderly women or women with children - have taken to the streets, complaining that their relatives had been arbitrarily arrested. | |
| XINJIANG VIOLENCE Quentin Somerville, Urumqi Many hundreds of people, mainly women, have come into the streets. | XINJIANG VIOLENCE Quentin Somerville, Urumqi Many hundreds of people, mainly women, have come into the streets. |
| They are screaming and shouting, "Give us our freedom, give us back our men." | They are screaming and shouting, "Give us our freedom, give us back our men." |
| The police are running at a trot with batons and shields. The Uighur men and women are standing their ground. Some are beginning to disperse. | The police are running at a trot with batons and shields. The Uighur men and women are standing their ground. Some are beginning to disperse. |
| This is a city where the Chinese authorities say they have regained control, but the scenes going on around me tell an entirely different story. Eyewitness: Urumqi protests | This is a city where the Chinese authorities say they have regained control, but the scenes going on around me tell an entirely different story. Eyewitness: Urumqi protests |
| Foreign journalists witnessed the protest during a tour led by government officials showing them parts of the city where shops and homes had been destroyed in Sunday's violence. | |
| Our correspondent says it was an extraordinary act of defiance. | Our correspondent says it was an extraordinary act of defiance. |
| He says riot police - armed with rifles and tear gas - charged the women and surrounded them. But they sat on the ground in defiance of orders from policemen to disperse. | He says riot police - armed with rifles and tear gas - charged the women and surrounded them. But they sat on the ground in defiance of orders from policemen to disperse. |
| He says the protesters finally began leaving as the journalists were ushered away from the area. | He says the protesters finally began leaving as the journalists were ushered away from the area. |
| But policemen were waiting in the side streets, he said, and it was unclear what had happened to the women. | But policemen were waiting in the side streets, he said, and it was unclear what had happened to the women. |
| Mass arrests | |
| The mass arrests have been going on since Sunday's clashes, says the BBC's Chris Hogg, in Shanghai. | |
| Our correspondent says reports are surfacing that police have been going from house to house, rounding up young men for questioning. | |
| The Chinese authorities say they have arrested the "ringleaders" of the protests, but that they are still seeking others. | |
| In Urumqi's hospitals, the victims are still being treated, our correspondent says. | |
| Many are reported to be ethnic Han Chinese, but there are Uighurs too and others from another Muslim ethnic group, the Hui. | Many are reported to be ethnic Han Chinese, but there are Uighurs too and others from another Muslim ethnic group, the Hui. |
| Demonstrators said they had been demanding justice for two Uighurs killed last month in a fight with ethnic Han Chinese at a factory in southern China. | |
| There has been widespread international concern at the clashes, which some analysts say are the most serious in China since Tiananmen Square in 1989. | |
| UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon led the calls for restraint, a sentiment echoed by Britain and the US. | |
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