Baku. Shamil Alibeyli – APA. Fifteen police officers and community workers have been killed and six suspects shot dead in a clash in Kashgar, in China's north-western region of Xinjiang, officials say, APA reports quoting The Guardian.
Many in Xinjiang's large Uighur Muslim population are angered by Beijing's restrictions on their religion and culture, policies such as resettlement, and immigration from other parts of China, which they fear has marginalised them. Some seek a separate state.
Violence has occurred more frequently in Xinjiang ever since an eruption of rioting by Uighurs in Urumqi in 2009. Official news reports said nearly 200 people were killed, most of them Han, and many more were injured.
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