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Uprising attempt in Xinjiang: China

Beijing/New York: Muslim extremists in Xinjiang had tried to stage an “uprising” against the Chinese rule in the oil-rich region last month, said the local government on Wednesday.

A “small number of elements” tried to incite “splittism, create disturbances in the market place and even trick the masses into an uprising,” it said on its website.

There were no reports of injuries and the situation had returned to normal, it said, linking the people involved in the protest with what it called “three evil forces”, an expression that China uses to refer to separatism, religious extremism and terrorism. The incident comes close on the heels of China saying last month that a 19-year old woman suspect, an Uygur ethnic, had confessed to her role in the foiled terrorist plot to crash a Beijing-bound passenger aircraft from Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang. — PTI

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