Separatists won't succeed

Uygur separatist leaders based in the US promptly condemned the Chinese authorities for their "brutal crackdown". But they did not even censure the rioters for killing so many people.

Reuters news agency and The Guardian newspaper cited hospital figures, based on the admission of the injured, to say 80 percent of the victims were Han Chinese and only 13 percent, Uygurs. A majority of the dead were Han Chinese, too.

As is their wont, the Western media did not question the Uygur leaders for launching the brutal attacks, or how the ethnic killings and maiming of ordinary people could be justified.