I would like to place on the record that coming from Ethic Chinese background myself were I still have families who were born & bread Xinjiang, Hong Kong, UK, Russia, Canada, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Caribbean we find it highly insulting that the Communist Party has the cheek not to remember or forget agbout the incident of The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in China as the June Fourth Incident, ostensibly to avoid confusion with two prior Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China (PRC) beginning on 14 April. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
Yet Communist officials in Xinjiang have declared that calm has been restored to riot-torn Urumqi following the deployment of thousands of troops.
President HuJintao abruptly left the G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday and returned home to oversee efforts to prevent more unrest in the city, where inter-ethnic bloodletting claimed the lives of 156 people on Sunday.
Urumqi Communist Party secretary Li Zhi told a televised news conference that many people had been arrested, including students.
"To those who committed crimes with cruel means, we will execute them," Mr Li declared, adding that government forces would crack down on any security risk.
China's top police officer also vowed that there would be no leniency for those who took part in the violence in Urumqi.
Public Security Minister MengJiangzhu said that "key rioters should be punished with the utmost severity."
In some areas of the city, residents have formed barricades with furniture and debris to stop a repeat of the clashes between Uighur citizens and Han Chinese.
One man, who would give only his surname Wang, said: "The government told us today not to get involved in any kind of violence.
"They've been broadcasting this on the radio and they even drove through neighbourhoods with speakers telling people not to carry weapons."
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have blocked the internet, including social-networking sites such as Facebook, and limited access to texting services on mobile phones.
