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            China Executes 3 for Deadly Kunming Train Station Attack

   by VOA News

   China has executed three men for their alleged role in last year's
   deadly attack that killed 31 people at a train station in the southwest
   city of Kunming.

   The men - identified as Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and Hasayn
   Muhammad - were put to death Tuesday, according to a statement by the
   Kunming Intermediate People's Court.

   The three were convicted in September of homicide and leading a
   terrorist group, which authorities say carried out the March 2014 knife
   attack on the Kunming railway station.

   Police shot and killed four of the five assailants. The other attacker,
   a pregnant woman, was captured alive and has been sentenced to life in
   prison.

   It was one of the deadliest attacks yet blamed by China on separatists
   based in the far-western region of Xinjiang, which is home to the
   Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority group.

   In recent years, hundreds have been killed in violent attacks, which
   have increasingly targeted civilians as well as government authorities.
   China has responded with a heavy-handed anti-terror crackdown that has
   resulted in dozens of executions and hundreds of arrests.

   Many exiled Uighur activists say the violence is a reaction to China's
   repressive policies in Xinjiang, where Uighurs have lived for centuries
   but are gradually being replaced by the Han Chinese majority group.
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