unrest

www.guardian.co.uk — Security forces in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China, are on high alert after the biggest wave of demonstrations in 20 years, sparked by a killing that symbolises the traumatic transition of Mongolia's nomadic grasslands into a mining powerhouse.

www.thenewdominion.net — According to news reports which are currently flooding into Western media outlets such as BBC, AP, the Guardian, and the New York Times, a man riding a motorized tricycle and armed with an explosive device attacked a crowd on the streets of Aksu, which is located in the northwestern area of the Tarim basin.

www.todayonline.com — Last week a senior leader said that Xinjiang was stable. Now the province's highest Uyghur official claims otherwise while in Beijing for the National People's Congress. Who's right?

news.bbc.co.uk — There have been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Han Chinese marching through the city with homemade weapons - steel poles, bamboo sticks.

They've been chanting that they're going to protect Xinjiang, protect themselves and their homes, and also chanting "down with Uighurs".

We've seen reinforcements of armed police arrive in the city.