Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS, June 17, 1997

AFP, 06/11/97

Beijing, June 11 (AFP) -- Security forces in China's troubled Xinjiang province have dealt with 10 terrorist acts since last year including a demonstration which left at least 10 dead and several deadly bomb attacks, a report said.

_Security forces in the region have since 1996 dealt with 10 acts of terrorist violence in accordance with the law, including the February 5 (1997) incident at Yining and the attacks on the buses in Urumqi on February 25," said the Xinjiang Daily, received here Wednesday. The predominantly Moslem area in northwest China has been plagued by clashes.

On February 5 rioting by ethnic Uighur in Yining left at least 10 people dead by official count, but at least 100 according to the separatists.

On February 25 three bomb blasts on buses in the regional capital Urumqi killed nine and injured 74. Three people were executed in April for involvement in the Yining clashes, while the following month eight were shot for the bomb blasts, blamed on separatists among the majority Uighur Moslems.

The newspaper also mentioned the assassination attempt on May 12, 1996 against a senior official. Of the two men who stabbed the official at least one was killed a few days later in a gunfight. The paper did not give details of the other incidents in the region