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| Unidentified assailants have killed 16 policemen in an attack on a border post in China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media report. | Unidentified assailants have killed 16 policemen in an attack on a border post in China's restive Muslim region of Xinjiang, state media report. |
| The attackers drove up to the post at Kashgar and threw two grenades, which also wounded 16 members of the border patrol armed police division. | The attackers drove up to the post at Kashgar and threw two grenades, which also wounded 16 members of the border patrol armed police division. |
| A militant Islamist group from the region recently claimed responsibility for bombings which killed five people. | A militant Islamist group from the region recently claimed responsibility for bombings which killed five people. |
| The group promised attacks on the Olympic Games, due to start on Friday. | The group promised attacks on the Olympic Games, due to start on Friday. |
| In a brief dispatch, China's state news agency Xinhua said two attackers were arrested in a dump truck at the scene. | |
| They had, it said, used the truck to break into the police post at about 0800 (0000 GMT) on Monday. | They had, it said, used the truck to break into the police post at about 0800 (0000 GMT) on Monday. |
| Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur people. Uighur separatists have waged a low-level campaign against Chinese rule for decades. | Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur people. Uighur separatists have waged a low-level campaign against Chinese rule for decades. |
| Human rights groups say Beijing is suppressing the rights of Uighurs. | |
| Xinhua gave no details of those who carried out Monday's attack. | |
| Last week, a senior Chinese army officer warned that Islamic separatists were the biggest threat to the Olympics. | |
| Col Tian Yixiang of the Olympics security command centre told reporters the main threat came from the "East Turkestan terrorist organisation". | |
| The term is used by the government to refer to Islamist separatists in Xinjiang. | |
| CHINA'S UIGHURS Ethnically Turkic Muslims, mainly in XinjiangMade bid for independent state in 1940sSporadic violence in Xinjiang since 1991Uighurs worried about Chinese immigration and erosion of traditional culture | |
| Late last month a group called the Turkestan Islamic Party said it had blown up buses in Shanghai and Yunnan, killing five people. | |
| But China denied that the explosions were acts of terrorism. | |
| The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said the Turkestan Islamic Party had released a video entitled Our Blessed Jihad in Yunnan. | |
| In it, the group's leader, Commander Seyfullah, said it was responsible for several attacks and threatened the Olympics. | |
| "The Chinese have haughtily ignored our warnings," IntelCenter quoted him as saying. | |
| "The Turkestan Islamic Party volunteers... have started urgent actions." | |
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