Though Mandarin language coverage of the incident remains subdued and restricted to the terse one-sentence announcement we linked in an earlier post, Chinese news agencies are continuing its policy of distinct reporting in different languages by throwing out onto the English language version of the People’s Daily that the suspects were indeed Uyghurs, aged 28 and 33 (on a humorous note, the article adds the words “respectively” after listing the ages, thought the reference was “Uyghurs”). The article also gives a few more details about the unfolding of the incident:
The Karshi police said that one of the attackers drove a tip lorry to hit a team of more than 70 policemen who were jogging to pass the Yiquan Hotel in a regular morning exercise at about 8:00 a.m. In the meantime, the other suspect threw an explosive toward the gate of the station.
The driver then abandoned the lorry to throw explosive at the policemen, after the vehicle veered to knock on a roadside wire pole, said the Kashi police.
The police confirmed that the driver blew up one of his arms after igniting the home-made explosive.
Police found 10 home-made explosives, a home-made hand gun and four knives from the vehicle.
Changing at least earlier reports that one of the suspects had injured his leg – apparently, instead, he’s lost his arm. Joy. Anyways, while checking the Chinese language coverage for updates, I find one page that after repeating the same one-sentence summary was at least nice enough to say “Stay tuned for updates”. Also on this page is a still that was marked 8/4, and depicts a guy in a prison suit who may possibly be one of the suspects (likely not the de-armed one). We see CCTV in one corner but the word for China in Russian in the other corner (???). On top of that, Chinese news websites are notorious for jumbling a bunch of totally unrelated crap into one article and without any alt text or captioning we have no idea what it is, but I’ll throw it out there for you guys anyways.
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Oh yeah. So this thing didn’t happen. CCP just made it up to further oppress minorities.
Posted 05 Aug 2008 at 7:30 am ¶Personally, I’m not too sure about that asdf. This was pretty embarrassing for the Chinese government. If we’re talking conspiracies, I would imagine claiming to have busted a huge terrorist operation right before it would’ve happened would’ve done that sort of job a lot better.
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