Chinese police shot dead 28 members of a "terrorist
group" in the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media said Friday,
citing police.
The killings took place over the course of a 56-day
manhunt following an attack on a colliery in Aksu in September that left 16
people dead, said the Xinjiang regional government's Tianshan web portal. One
"thug" surrendered, it added.
Xinjiang, the homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic
minority, is often hit by unrest and China has launched a police crackdown on
separatist "terrorists" it says are behind the violence.
Many Uighurs complain of discrimination and controls on
their culture and religion.
Friday's official reports come after Radio Free Asia
(RFA), which is funded by the US government, said that more than 50 people
including five police were killed in a knife attack at a colliery in Aksu in
September.
The assailants targeted security guards, the mine owner's
house, and a workers' dormitory, it said.The assault on the colliery was "a violent terrorist
attack under the direct command of an overseas extremist organisation", it
said.
It was carried out by a "violent terrorist
group" headed by two people with apparently Uighur names, according to the
report.
"Terrorism is the common enemy of mankind," it
added.
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