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Kunming railway station attack




One female suspected attacker caught by police, four others shot dead

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 02 March, 2014, 12:32am
UPDATED : Sunday, 02 March, 2014, 7:58pm




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@ianson: Please don't mix things up. The US's homicide rate, lunatic or otherwise, is a leader in the developed world and that is a fact which has relevance to human rights in a broader sense. Regarding the Kunming attack, before any further info emerges, we don't know yet if it was a lunatic attack or a terrorist one. Think before you write; otherwise you just make yourself look like a ranting moron.
Sad news. China needs to increase the number of police on beat. Rare to see them in the cities compared to HK.

We need to take this country back. During Mr. Mao's time, there was nothing of this sort. Creating a police state is a short-term not a long-term solution. We need to tell our Uygur brothers / sisters that look the Hans have lived in Xinjiang for over 2,000 years, the Uygurs around 1,000 years; there must be a way for us to get along and celebrate our diversity...the Chinese are terrible story tellers and we are suffering from it!
i guess rumors like the ethnicity should not be included at this stage
Teddy Ng, one of the most important values of journalism is to be impartial. From what I have quoted from your article, I believe that you have violated this very sacred value of journalism with this very quote. Readers read your article for impartial journalism, not for your biased personal opinions. Your statement is a claim rather than fact. Please don't disguise your personal opinions as facts on such a respectable newspaper.
SCMP does not have the capacity to cover this story properly. If you go to Sina Weibo, there are much more details of this terrorist attack and the horrible memories recounted by survivors. There is this young man who saw his mother stumbled over a chair and the next scene was her throat pierced by a knife. May the victims rest in peace!
Think about this. It could have been a lot worse and even more horrifying had the attackers boarded a train and attacked when the train was at speed between cities and far from any armed rescuers. They could have had time to methodically killed everyone in the cars with plenty of time to get away. The site of the carnage when authorities finally open the doors would be out of the worse chainsaw horror movie. When I rode the fast train from Shanghai to Wuxi, there was no inspection security stations. This is a game changer and easy to copy outside of China. This can happen on any light rail system in any city.
So sad and unfair for the innocents involved...
Who else does this but Islamic terrorists? We see it in N**eria and India and Russia and a dozen other countries. Now if everybody wants to get all politically-correct and blame it on space aliens or paranormal beings from another dimension, be my guest. But people who follow the news recognize the modus operandi of Muslim terrorists when we see it.
Nothing against Uygurs in general here, there are good and bad in any people group. Indeed the article is devoid of anything that could be construed as 'Uygur bashing', however it is counter productive to blind ourselves, in the name of 'Political Correctness', to what we know. Amongst all the minority people groups in China, one which has been the most vocal in airing their grievances over their perceived treatment by the central government, are the Uygurs, who even have a proverb which states "保護宗教，殺漢滅回” (baohu zongjiao, sha Han mie ****) - "Protect religion, Kill the Han and destroy the ****”. The fact that the weapon used in all these attacks was a traditional Uygur yengisar knife, and that the Uygurs are highly skilled in their use, means it is a not unreasonable for the authorities to suspect that that some Uygurs have been radicalised and planned this devastating attack.



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