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2 Chinese Policemen Killed, 7 Wounded in Xinjiang

By AUDRA ANG
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 28, 2008; 12:27 PM

BEIJING -- Chinese police clashed with members of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority in the far western region of Xinjiang, authorities and an activist said Thursday, the first reported outbreak of violence in the area since two high-profile attacks during the Olympics.

Two Chinese policemen died and seven more were wounded. It was not immediately clear what ignited Wednesday's conflict in a village in Jiashi County or if any Uighurs were injured.

Activist Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress, said witnesses heard "fierce gunfire" and saw at least 20 Uighurs arrested _ part of what he says is a wider, ongoing crackdown. He did not give any other details.
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A public security official said eight Uighurs _ seven men and one woman _ were involved. One man had been captured, but the others were at large, said the official, who refused to give his name as is common among Chinese officials.

Mu'erbiya, an official from Jiashi County's Communist Party propaganda office, said two police officers had died and an investigation was under way. Like some Uighurs, she uses one name.

Seven police officers were being treated at the No. 1 People's Hospital in Kashgar, about 60 miles west of Jiashi, including one for stab wounds, according to a woman at the hospital's emergency center who refused to give her name.

China has long said that militants among the region's dominant ethnic Uighurs are leading an Islamic separatist movement in Xinjiang,

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