Only hours after the weekend's bloody clashes in Urumqi and well before the authorities had announced the horrendous death toll, Beijing had named the perpetrators of the unrest in the capital of its northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, blamed the “pre-meditated and organised violence” on exiled leaders of the Uighurs, the region's predominant Muslim people.
Xinhua, quoting an anonymous official, singled out as the mastermind Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur businesswoman jailed for alleged separatist activities in 1999 and exiled to the US six years later.
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