10,000 missing after ethnic riots in China, activist claims

ALMOST 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, an exiled Uighur activist has said yesterday, calling for an international investigation.

In the area’s worst ethnic violence in decades, Uighurs attacked Han Chinese in the capital Urumqi on July 5, after police tried to break up a protest against fatal attacks on Uighur workers at a factory in south China.

Han Chinese in Urumqi launched revenge attacks later that week.