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China: Police Kill 8 Assailants in a Clash in Xinjiang China: Police Kill 8 Assailants in a Clash in Xinjiang
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Security officers on Monday killed eight attackers and detained one person as the police repelled an assault on a police station in the western region of Xinjiang, government officials said. A report on Tianshan News, the official news website of Xinjiang, said nine people armed with knives attacked a police station in Shache County, near Kashgar. The attackers also threw explosive devices and set police cars on fire, the report said. It provided no further details. Violence between civilians and security forces has become increasingly common in Xinjiang, where officials say they are trying to deal with rebels or terrorists who live in towns heavily populated by ethnic Uighurs. But Uighurs in the area and some scholars in Beijing and abroad say the Chinese government exaggerates the terrorist threat and is instead mostly deploying security forces to maintain tight control over people who feel oppressed by the ethnic Han authorities. Security officers on Monday killed eight attackers and detained one person as the police repelled an assault on a police station in the western region of Xinjiang, government officials said. A report on Tianshan News, the official news website of Xinjiang, said nine people armed with knives had attacked a police station in Shache County, near Kashgar. The attackers also threw explosive devices and set police cars on fire, the report said. It provided no further details. Violence between civilians and security forces has become increasingly common in Xinjiang, where officials say they are trying to deal with rebels or terrorists who live in towns heavily populated by ethnic Uighurs. But Uighurs in the area and some scholars in Beijing and abroad say the Chinese government exaggerates the terrorist threat and is instead mostly deploying security forces to maintain tight control over people who feel oppressed by the ethnic Han authorities.