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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: China flexes muscles in strife-torn Xinjiang Reuters - Thursday, July 9 By Chris Buckley ADVERTISEMENT URUMQI, China - Armoured vehicles and trucks carrying thousands of Chinese troops rumbled through riot-damaged streets of the regional capital of northwestern Xinjiang on Thursday, blaring our propaganda urging ethnic unity. But some residents of Urumqi, where 156 people were killed and 1,080 wounded on Sunday when minority Muslim Uighurs went on the rampage against Han Chinese, worried about how the two sides could ever co-exist again. Han Chinese, who have said they feel threatened after Sunday's violence, cheered the show of force and took pictures. Uighur residents looked on with strained faces. "This makes me scared and I think it's meant to," said a Uighur woman called Adila. "What can we do against so many soldiers?" Li Zhi, Communist Party boss of Urumqi, said on Wednesday he would seek the death penalty for rioters who resorted to "cruel means" and murdered people in this city divided between Uighurs and Han, the country's predominant ethnic group. The line of troops, armoured vehicles and trucks measuring several kilometres and blasting out the propaganda passed for about 25 minutes through Saimachang, the Uighur neighbourhood where hundreds of women protested on Tuesday. Helicopters flying only a few metres above rooftops scattered propaganda leaflets over the crowd of hundreds who gathered to watch the security forces march by. Troops mounted on the truck with guns and riot shields shouted slogans in unison and some of the trucks carried signs in Chinese, one of which read "separatists bring calamity to the country and its people." The Uighur woman, Adila, said her husband had been taken away on Monday by police although he had just arrived back from the city of Yili in Xinjiang where he works as a truck driver. "He works for a Han man, but I'm not sure we can work with Han people now. They hate us, and we are scared of them." Sunday's rioters were mostly from the southern part of Xinjiang, the English-language China Daily quoted Adina, the wife of a neurosurgeon at the regional People's Hospital, as saying. "They had different accents, wore different clothes, and beat up even Uighur girls who wore short sleeves ," Adina added. Shi Guanzheng, a retired teacher originally from Shanghai, dared not venture too far despite the heavy security presence. Shi blamed the government for failing to quell protests by Han on Tuesday, when, armed with knives, clubs and bars, they thronged parts of the city demanding revenge against Uighurs. "That should never have happened. It should have been nipped in the bud. The killings of innocent people is never justified, but now both sides are so filled with emotion that the repercussions will last a long time," he said. "I'm scared about what will happen when the People's Armed Police have to leave. It's not about tomorrow or the next day. It's about next month or after. What then?" Xinjiang has long been a tightly controlled hotbed of ethnic tension, fostered by an economic gap between Uighurs and Han, government curbs on religion and culture and an influx of migrants who are now the majority in Urumqi. Beijing cannot afford to lose its grip on a vast territory that borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, has abundant oil reserves and is China's largest natural gas-producing region. PREPARED FOR TROUBLE Overnight in a Uighur neighbourhood near the main bazaar, residents prepared for trouble, readying themselves with clubs. One middle-aged woman in a headscarf walked by carrying a machete and a carving knife mounted on a stick. Down the road, a group of seven Uighur men built a barricade out of planks with broken shards of beer bottles in front. "We're protecting ourselves," one of the men said. Turkonate, a lean Uighur man in his 20s standing outside with several friends, said police were taking away young men who had any recent injuries, who could not produce any identification or did not have residence papers. "They're taking our people every day. I don't know how this is going to end." The violence prompted President Hu Jintao to abandon a G8 summit in Italy and he returned home to monitor developments in Xinjiang where hundreds have been arrested in the ensuing crackdown. In a display of ethnic unity, state television showed Shanghai Communist Party boss Yu Zhengsheng and mayor Han Zheng visiting Uighur restaurants in the commercial hub of the country's financial capital. "If there is no stability or harmony, the lives of the people cannot get better and there will be no economic development," Yu was quoted as telling his Uighur hosts. The government has blamed Sunday's killings on exiled Uighurs seeking independence, especially Rebiya Kadeer, an activist who lives in exile in the United States. Kadeer has denied the accusations. 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