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COMMENTS: Urumqi is no Teheran
The day's other major overseas story concerned the ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang Province. NBC's Beijing-based Ian Williams narrated videotape of deadly clashes between Uighurs, a Moslem minority in western China, and Han Chinese. State TV news showed security forces battling protestors in the streets of Urumqi, the provincial capital. More than 150, mostly Han, have been killed. "Officials blamed Moslem separatists…Exile groups blame a police crackdown against the peaceful protests of Uighurs." Chinese authorities have cut communications, including Internet and mobile phone services. Yet the Moslems of Urumqi found little journalistic enthusiasm for circumventing censorship, unlike the Moslems of Teheran two weeks ago.
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