Beijing tightens security after protests, attack

Authorities in Beijing are tightening security after an attack on a police station in China's north-west and protests in the capital.

Grassroots protesters defied police orders to disperse during a protest in central Beijing yesterday, complaining about what they say is a lack of compensation for the destruction of their homes to make way for development.

The protest was just south of Tiananmen Square, a sensitive site at the best of times, now a place with Olympic importance.

"The developers cannot take advantage of the fact that it is the Olympics, and expect impunity for taking away my house", one woman shouted.

Another wore an English sign on her chest saying "Reporters from China and other countries, welcome to my family and interview my human rights experience."

"We are not against the Olympics," one woman said, "but they shouldn't have destroyed my house, forcibly evicted me and left me homeless".

Police cleared the protest quickly.

Olympic officials say they have thoroughly prepared security operations for Beijing and are keeping their eyes on the potential for protests inside and outside venues.

Such unsanctioned protests have the city's authorities worried.

Permission to demonstrate is not normally granted in China and other disaffected groups may use the Olympics to voice their concerns.

There is now a stepped-up security presence on the streets.

Of greater concern to local police is the possibility of a bombing during the Games by militant Muslim groups from the country's west.

Uighur separatists killed 16 police yesterday in Xinjiang province when they attacked a police station using a truck, home-made explosives and knives.

A separatist group in western China says it does not want China to launch a military response to the attack.

Official Chinese media says two suspected Muslim separatists drove up to a group of police in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, in the province of Xinjiang, and tossed home-made bombs at them, then attacked them with knives.

Chinese reports say that 16 policemen died in the attack and another 16 were wounded.

The two attackers were subdued and later identified as being from the Uighur ethnic group.

A spokesperson for the World Uighur Congress Dilixiati says his organisation is against violence but it cannot prevent it if it occurs as a result of China's oppression of minorities.

"We don't want to see our nation going down the path of military confrontation, but it all depends on the type of policy carried out by Chinese authorities in the region," the spokesperson said.

"I want to emphasise that people can't tolerate the systematic suppression any longer."

Meanwhile, the organisers of the Beijing Olympic Games says they are confident China will be able to hold a peaceful Olympics.

In the wake of the attack, International Olympic Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies said the organisation was hopeful that China's games would be safe.

"As far as the Games are concerned, we trust the authorities are doing everything humanly possible to ensure a safe and secure event," she said.
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