The New Dominion

There are now several videos of the Urumqi protests on-line:

In the video above, you can see a youth smashing the window of a donkey meat restaurant. The Uyghur-run Arman grocery store next door, however, is untouched. I am pretty sure this Döngköwrük/Erdaoqiao.

Here, demonstrators make their through the Döngköwrük/Erdaoqiao neighborhood, blocking traffic on one side of the road. They look remarkably organized, and I wonder who is at the vanguard. They may be holding a banner. You can see a couple of people rushing across the opposite lane to join the march. This doesn’t look like thousands of people.

In this video, you can see police action taking place on a side alley. There may be demonstrators down there, too. The action is taking place in a city block on South Liberation Street (解放南路), about here:

View Protests in Urumchi City Block in a larger map

Locals are posting videos to YouKu, but have mostly been quickly “harmonized” and taken down.

View several photos of the violence in Urumqi today here.