Word: hans
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...city's Uighur neighborhoods, makeshift barriers of timber and broken beer bottles have been swept away, a sign that the influx of some 20,000 personnel has eased fears of Han vigilante mobs that formed July 7. "They had clubs and knives and there was nothing we could do," says a man named Yusef as he stood beside a barricade of trash bins still protecting an alley filled with ramshackle Uighur homes. "Now it's a little bit better. The government has come and they're enforcing the law. The People's Armed Police are here, and they're keeping...
...first days after the riot, China's state media was filled with scenes of young Uighur men smashing buses and attacking pedestrians. After thousands of Han gathered to retaliate on Tuesday, the official press has shifted to a narrative of racial harmony, running stories of Uighurs who protected Han during the rioting. But despite the façade of unity, many fear the anger will inevitably bubble up again. "Of course it will continue," says a 71-year-old Han retiree who lives near Xinjiang University in the far south of Urumqi, where Uighur rioters smashed shops and cars...
...region whose Mandarin name, Xinjiang, means simply "New Frontier" - perhaps a reflection of the fact that the region was only brought under Beijing's control in its entirety during the 19th century rein of the Qing dynasty. And this week they have found themselves in violent confrontation with Han Chinese, who have become a significant majority in the capital, Urumqi, thanks to Beijing's settlement policies...
...subsumed into the new state forged by China's victorious Communists after 1949, with Beijing steadily tightening its grip on the oil rich territory. Its official designation as an "autonomous region" belies rigid controls from the central government over Xinjiang, and a policy of settling hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese there that has left the Uighurs comprising a little less than half of the region's roughly 20 million people. (See pictures of the race riots in China...
...Beijing casts its own role in Xinjiang as that of a benevolent force for progress, citing the economic development spurred by its billions of dollars of investment. To be sure, Urumqi is now a city of skyscrapers, but its population is almost 75% Han Chinese, and the Uighurs claim they're frozen out of jobs - and see themselves as the victims of China's own westward expansion...