Martial law, blackout imposed as death sentences handed out in Xinjiang

Boxun reports that on Tuesday October 13, 2014, in Tumushuke City near Bachu in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, martial law was declared and all communications cut off. It’s said that a violent event took place that day, but because communications are cut off the details can’t be verified.

That same day, the Xinjiang Kazakh region Intermediate People’s Court sentenced 12 to death for the July 28 Shache County terrorist attack.

The court issued a guilty sentence for “the crime of organizing, leading, and participating in a terrorist organization, intentional homicide, illegal manufacturing of weapons, arson, kidnapping and endangering public security.”

In addition, 15 were sentenced to death with the execution of sentence suspended for two years. Nine were sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 fixed terms of imprisonment.

Chinese official media said the attack caused 37 deaths (35 Han, 2 Uighur), 13 injured, and 31 vehicles smashed, with six burned. During efforts to stop the attack, authorities shot 59 “thugs” dead, arrested 215 people in relation to the case and confiscated “jihad” flags, broadswords, axes and other weapons.

Public comment on this incident is that 3,000 were massacred in Xinjiang’s Shache County. Boxun Magazine published a September article on this subject, the web version is more accurate than the government’s version.