Pain lingering for people of Xinjiang
More than 10 days after the terrorist attack in Kunming, Yunnan province, the pain still lingers - a pain familiar to people from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which is on the front lines of China's anti-terrorism battle and home of people from different ethnic groups including Uygur, Han, Kazak, Tajik and so many others.
The violent knife attack, which left 29 people dead and more than 140 others injured on March 1, was carried out by five members of an eight-member terrorist cell led by Abudulreyim Kurban. Local police said the attackers are separatists from Xinjiang.
No one knows how hurtful it is until the needle stings your own skin. As a reporter, I visited terrorist crime scenes in Xinjiang last year, and I could see that with every violent attack, another scar was added to the hearts of the people there.
