Four days after the crackdown, on July 10, Urumqi is still heavily guarded. This photo is taken at the Urumqi railway station. (AFP/Getty Images)
According to a report by the regime’s mouthpiece, Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi Municipal Civil Bureau Director, Wang Fengyun said that Ministry of Civil Affairs will dispense special compensation fees—200,000 yuan for each death—plus 10,000 funeral fees for each innocent dead to the bereaved family.
Thus far, the first installment of 50 million yuan has been allocated. The total compensation is about 100 million yuan. Wang also indicated that government officials had met with 2,400 members of the victims’ families by the afternoon of July 10.
Based on the above released figures, the total “innocent dead,” according to the regime’s definition, could reach 500, and this figure still leaves room for people to speculate how many “non-innocent dead” there could be.
If it is assumed that there are four people in one bereaved family, the 2,400 members of victims’ families could translate to a death toll of 600 deaths. However, the regime has only admitted 184 deaths up to July 11.
Renowned China issue expert Chen Pokong believes the regime opened fire, judging from the official released 156 deaths and 1080 injured, which happened in a few hours.
Chen also commented that the regime was unusually efficient in handling the media, which included cutting off communication to the outside world during the night, quickly releasing official news such as death tolls, releasing videos and accusing that “foreign malicious force” plotted the uprising.
Many China experts also believe the regime was well prepared for this “Xinjiang Uprising,” and accused it of using the tragedy to instigate ethnic conflict in order to shift people’s resentment away from the regime’s corruption and inability to solve the current economic problem.
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