Communist leaders vow stability after China riots

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

URUMQI, China (AP) — China's top communist leaders vowed to maintain stability in the west of the country in their first public comments Thursday on the ethnic riots that killed more than 150 people. They accused overseas forces of orchestrating the violence.

An urgent nine-member Politburo Standing Committee meeting, led by President Hu Jintao, called on Communist Party members and officials at all levels to mobilize to restore order, promising punishment to rioters and leniency to participants who were misled by agitators.

"Preserving and maintaining the overall stability of Xinjiang is currently the most urgent task," the Politburo said, according to an account carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Security forces kept a firm grip on the tense Xinjiang capital, Urumqi (pronounced uh-ROOM-chee), after the region's worst ethnic violence in decades as residents tentatively emerged to go about daily life.



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My prediction: A few Han agitators will be executed in a show of "fairness" while scores of Uighars are executed, imprisoned, etc.

[razorman]

1. Yes, the dead are very stable.