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                       Kunming Knife Attack Trial Begins

   by VOA News

   The trial of four people charged with killing 31 people in a knife
   attack outside a railway station in the southern Chinese city of
   Kunming has begun.

   The Kunming Intermediate People's Court said in a statement Friday that
   the four were charged with belonging to a terrorist group and murder.

   On March 1, a group of attackers armed with knives hacked 31 people to
   death and wounded another 141. Beijing has blamed militants from the
   far northwest region of Xinjiang for the attack

   Chinese authorities shot and killed four of the suspected attackers.

   Mainly Muslim Uighurs complain of persecution by the state in Xinjiang.
   The region is about 1,500 kilometers from where the knife attack
   happened in the city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province.
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