At least 29
people were killed and other 143 were hounded, when the last Saturday night a
group of 10 attackers, dressed in black, with cloth masks and armed with long
knives, arrived to the Kunming Railway station in southwest China and began a
slaughter against innocent employees and travelers who were there.
The police
shot dead four of the ten aggressors. The crime scene was a complete nightmare.
Blood puddles everywhere, and moaning people that crawled in the station. One of
the slayers was captured.
Although no
group has claimed responsibility for this atrocious act, the authorities said
that the attack was planned and perpetrated by separatists from the Xinjiang
region, where the members of the Uighur minority have had troubles with the government.
This Uighur minority is a Muslim population that have faced troubles in the
last months, at least 100 Uighurs have been killed.
This slaughter
is alarming because this could be the beginning for multiple attacks of Uighurs
in other regions different than theirs. In October, a group of Uighurs drove a
vehicle into a crowd near Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, killing two people and
injuring 40. “The Tiananmen attack last year could be called a turning
point, and together with this incident indicates that more terror activities
could spread beyond Xinjiang, like violence spread out of Chechnya in Russia,” said Pan Zhiping, a professor at Xinjiang University.
However,
Uighur activists claim that the Chinese religious constraints are aggravating. Especially
since the last year attack, when the government began sweeping researches and
detention of Uighurs. “If this incident was really the work of Uighurs, then I
can only say that it may be an extreme act by people who feel they cannot take
it anymore.” said Dilxat Rexit, a spokesman who is in Sweden for th
Kunming is stunned.
The city was known for being a warm destination for tourist. Throughout the Sunday, hundreds of people
lined up at blood donation centers, and that night large crowds went to the
station to light candles and lay out white chrysanthemums, a traditional symbol
of mourning in China. No one saw it coming.
Comment
This
situation in China is awful. I think that the Chinese authorities must do all their
efforts in order to capture the other five assassins. They must pay for what
they did to them, for what they did to their families and for what they did to the
city of Kunming.
It´s very
sad to see this kind of news, where innocent people are the victims. They couldn’t
do anything to avoid this terrible slaughter. The whole city is concerned and
devastated for this attack. I admire the solidarity and support that the
citizens have had with this incident. It seems that Kunming is a peaceful city,
where everyone supports each other.
However,
with a more objective look, I think that the Chinese government is also responsible
for this kind of acts that have been happening since last year. China is a beautiful
country but it´s also very close minded. As we read on the new, China’s
religious constraints are overwhelming for the people who live there. We are on
the 21st century, we have to learn to respect someday. Even if China
didn’t stab those poor people, it “helped” to create a propitious environment
for this kind of situations.
We don’t respect
the freedom of others and that´s the problem. The Uighur Muslim minority just
want peace, some space where they can be culturally free. But Chinese government
has pressured them to the edge, it has harassed them too much. And with this
recent event, pressure is going to be worse, and for China, would be very likely
to receive more attacks on the civilization, and it would begin an endless
vicious circle.
Bibliography
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/world/asia/china.html?ref=asia&_r=0
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