Hundreds of vehicles were wrecked in the violence in Urumqi

Chinese police have arrested 1,434 people over rioting in Xinjiang province, official state media says.

Rioting broke out on Sunday in Urumqi - the capital of Xinjiang -leaving 156 people dead and more than 800 injured.（逮捕和死亡人数准确，受伤人数却是模糊的大于800，其实官方媒体有具体的受伤人数1080人“http://news.sina.com.cn/c/p/2009-07-07/084018170019.shtml”BBC在这里处于未知的目的却把数字处理了）

The unrest spread to a second city on Monday, with police breaking up fresh protests in Kashgar, dispersing more than 200 "rioters" at its main mosque.

Beijing blames ethnic Muslim Uighurs for the violence, but exiled Uighurs say police fired on students.（国内中文媒体没有关于暴力事件波及其他城市的报道，但英文的新华社报道了相关内容“http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/07/content_11663866.htm”与中文不同新华社在这篇英文报道中声称“A number of suspects were arrested during the raids while there were no casualties among police officers. ”。与国内媒体极力淡化民族矛盾不同，BBC强调了ethnic“种族的，文化上不同的”是造成矛盾的原因。听取对立双方的观点是必要的，但信源主体却很模糊“Beijing”“exiled Uighurs”降低了消息的可信度）

XINJIANG VIOLENCE Quentin Somerville, Urumqi Urumqi is under curfew. The city centre is deserted, only armed police and other security personnel stand on the streets. Eyewitnesses have told the BBC that an ethnic battle took place here on Sunday. Muslim Uighurs fought with Han Chinese. People were attacked as they sat on buses, others were dragged from their homes. The authorities say that many died in the back streets around the city centre. This was the bloodiest uprising against Chinese rule in many years, although there is little evidence of it left here on the streets. Burned out cars and buses have been cleared away. Authorities say Urumqi is now back firmly under their control.

Demonstrators （标题中强调政府的arrests淡化暴力分子的violence，在这里更是把暴力分子成为“游行示威者”，用词不准确到近乎美化）said they had been demanding justice for two Uighurs killed last month in a fight with ethnic Han Chinese at a factory in southern China.（没有对起因有更加详实的报到，只记录了两人死亡的结果）

The bloodshed drew international concern, with the US calling for all sides to "exercise restraint".

The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Monday that police believed agitators were "trying to organise more unrest" in other cities in Xinjiang, a mountainous and desert region that borders Central Asia.（新华社英文报道中有相似内容）

About 200 people "trying to gather" at the Id Kah mosque in the centre of Kashgar, on the ancient Silk Road, were dispersed by police early on Monday evening, Xinhua said.（新华社中英文的报道中都没有相关的内容。显示了西方媒体不管有无证据都习惯把事件向宗教方面归纳，以博取宗教同情。基本可以断定这一段是BBC添油加醋的内容，涉嫌虚假报道）

Police also revealed they had information about efforts to organise unrest in the city of Aksu and the Yili prefecture, Xinhua added. Yili is a border region that was hit by ethnic unrest in the late 1990s.

Calm in Urumqi

As relative calm returned to the bloodstained streets of Urumqi, paramilitary police patrolled the main bazaar - a largely Uighur neighbourhood - carrying batons, bamboo poles and slingshots.（竹竿和弹弓在曾经的英属殖民地印度次大陆的暴力活动中比较常见，新疆武警是否装备存疑，对英国人来说这两个地方大概都差不多）

Extremist forces inside and outside of China communicated with each other intensively before the incident erupted Liu Weimin Chinese embassy, London Uighur resentment at Beijing's rule China tells its own story Accounts of Xinjiang violence

Mobile phone services were said to be blocked and internet connections cut or slowed down.（“were said to”表示这是一则未经BBC证实的消息，而且没有公布信源，可信度较低“cut or slowed down”到底是切断还是减速，表述模糊）

Witnesses and state media said that rioters overturned barricades, attacked vehicles and houses, and clashed with police in Urumqi on Sunday.

State television showed footage of protesters beating and kicking people on the ground.

There were graphic images of people who appeared to be ethnic Han Chinese （无视了新闻报道中出现的新疆籍受害者，一味强调BBC先入为主的enthnic的习惯性判断，选择性无视，偏见表现）sitting dazed with blood pouring down their faces.

Wu Nong, news director for the Xinjiang government, said more than 260 vehicles were attacked and more than 200 shops and houses damaged.

UIGHURS AND XINJIANG Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims They make up about 45% of the region's population. 40% are Han Chinese China re-established control in 1949 after crushing short-lived state of East Turkestan Since then, large-scale immigration of Han Chinese Uighurs fear erosion of traditional culture Sporadic violence since 1991 Attack on 4 Aug 2008 near Kashgar kills 16 Chinese policemen In pictures: Xinjiang protests Q&A: China and the Uighurs China tells its own story Accounts of Xinjiang violence

Several hundred people were arrested after the violence.

Accounts differ over how the violence happened. The Xinjiang government blamed separatist Uighurs based abroad for orchestrating attacks on Han Chinese.（中国政府的民族团结政策不可能使用这样的凸现民族对立的表达方式，虚假报道）

But Uighur groups insisted their protest was peaceful and had fallen victim to state violence, with police firing indiscriminately on protesters in Urumqi.

Liu Weimin, a spokesman at the Chinese Embassy in London, told the BBC's The World Tonight that extremist forces had been involved.

"The local government in Xinjiang has evidence that extremist forces inside and outside of China communicated with each other intensively before the incident erupted on Sunday," he said.

Rebiya Kadeer, exiled president of the Uighur American Association, denied claims that she had incited the riots.

She said she had learned about the protests from websites and only called her family in China to warn them to stay away from any trouble.

There has been widespread international concern at the clashes, which some analysts say are the most serious in China since Tiananmen Square in 1989.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon led the calls for restraint, a sentiment echoed by Britain and the US.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said: "We are deeply concerned over reports of many deaths and injuries from violence in Urumqi in western China. We call on all in Xinjiang to exercise restraint."