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Dozens 'Disappeared' After China Riots

Rights group: Uighurs vanished after being detained by police

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(Newser) – Dozens of Uighur men and boys rounded up in the wake of the riots that shook China's Xinjiang province over the summer are missing, according to a reports from a human rights group. Interviews with families in Urumqi found evidence that 43 people had vanished since being taken away by security forces, although that number is "likely just the tip of the iceberg," a director of Human Rights Watch told the BBC.

"Their families’ attempts to inquire about the relatives at local police stations or with other law-enforcement agencies proved futile,” the report states. “The authorities either said they had no knowledge of the arrests, or claimed an inquiry was still ongoing, or simply chased the families away.” The organization is urging China to release the details of everybody being held in detention.

A man in Urumqi last month examines a list of suspects wanted in connection to deadly China riots in July.
A man in Urumqi last month examines a list of suspects wanted in connection to deadly China riots in July.   (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Paramilitary police officers patrol in July as Uighur men walk by in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province.
Paramilitary police officers patrol in July as Uighur men walk by in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province.   (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Chinese security forces line up on the People's Square in Urumqi, China, in July.
Chinese security forces line up on the People's Square in Urumqi, China, in July.   (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
A Uighur woman faces off with Chinese paramilitary police in Urumqi, China, in July.
A Uighur woman faces off with Chinese paramilitary police in Urumqi, China, in July.   (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A group of Uighurs protest in front of journalists visiting Urumqi, China.
A group of Uighurs protest in front of journalists visiting Urumqi, China.   (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Netstorm2k9
Oct 21, 09 4:21 AM CDT
When it happens here, they just don't report it. Reply
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dontlikeyou
Oct 21, 09 9:28 AM CDT
Dozens? Try hundreds. I have read that over 1000 people are missing after the riots.
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ShenzhenJeff
Oct 21, 09 6:08 AM CDT
China knows how to deal with Muslim terrorists and murderers in the right way. the Western world is to cowardly to stand up and defend themselves in their own nations. Reply
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MarkMcJackoff
Oct 21, 09 6:48 AM CDT
Problem is anyone outside China seems to think these people are an heroic minority fighting to survive under a communist govt. who wish to eradicate them. You know the truth - they are basically a bunch of bottom feeding muslim agitators who need to be "disappeared" Reply
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Netstorm2k9
Oct 21, 09 2:41 PM CDT
Yah, because if you're Muslim, you don't deserve basic human rights, right? So we can classify them as undesirables, along with Jews, Blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, Gays, Intellectuals, well, just about anyone we don't like at the moment. Reply
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