I’m from Xinjiang, I was born there, grew up there, and work there now. On September 2 I had to leave Urumqi on business, and today I talked to a friend there who told me to wait a few more days before coming back, things are still chaotic. My husband and daughter are both in Urumqi, so I’m anxious to finish my work and be with my family who are terrified and helpless. I’ve seen a lot over these past few days of what netizens both in China and abroad have written about these things, especially those comments about Uighurs outside of Xinjiang; I’m speechless, but I do have but one strong desire, and that is for all the video footage from July 5 to be made public, so that people around the world can see for themselves what happened to this society on that night in this civilized country. To see what a massacre looks like.

The Han for the most part are a people who don’t concern themselves with affairs in which they are not involved, and my Mongol and Russian neighbors say that we Han don’t stand together, which is why things are so tragic. The reason Han took to the streets on July 7 is because we had no idea what happened on the morning of the 6th, we thought they just smashed and torched some things and that’s it. Only that afternoon did we learn from some night owl netizen friends that there had been a massacre, and then all Han started thinking that anyone who went outside on the streets would be beaten or killed for no reason or without provocation, and that even 3 year-old children weren’t even being let go, so then there was the rally and retaliation on July 7.

But that was shut down by the government. Things slowly went back to normal, but then a fortnight ago we heard about people being stabbed with syringes, and that Uighurs who were being tackled and taken to the police stations were actually being let go, and that most of the Uighurs detained from July 5 had been let go. It felt like we were the only ones concerned about this. So we did our best to stay indoors, and were careful to look around if we went to, to make sure there weren’t any Uighurs we know in the immediate vicinity. It seems they felt they hadn’t provoked us enough, so on September 1 when the school year started, they started targeting elementary and high school students who weren’t paying attention. Our families only have one child each, who for us are the future of the Han, so on September 3-4 there were Uighurs who were caught with syringes who were getting beaten.

The Uighurs who planned this whole thing know how stupid the CCP is, because what the Chinese government fears most is the sight of blood setting off Han nationwide, and fears people will demand to know what the police and militia police were doing for the nearly five hours during which Han were being killed; fear that people will ask what the connection is between ethnic policies in violation of the law and this massacre; which is why they were shady and evasive in not answering western media questions about just how many Han were killed, and how many killers were shot down. Who did this give the opportunity to spread rumors? Originally, only about 10% of Uighurs and Han were opposed to the larger mistakes the Chinese government made while trying to cover up their smaller mistakes, but it was their stupid policies that pushed the 40% in the middle toward hatred.

My husband and I were university students during the Tiananmen incident in 1989, and it was only six years after that when we saw a western media report that we painfully realized that we had been used. We respect Wang Dan from Peking University, and despise Chai Ling and her ilk that manipulated our enthusiasm to push the student movement to a crossroads. Anyone who mentions the July 5 riots in the same breath as June 4 is just insulting the Chinese university students from that era. We know that throughout history radical revolution has only been to the benefit of a small number of politicians, and that what gets sacrificed are the interests of the people. I admire the kind of gradual reforms as seen in England, which is why although I’m dissatisfied with many aspects of contemporary China, I still do hope for gradual reforms and not turbulent revolution.

75的反应远没有某些人所说的处置及时，出租司机说，警察都在挨打，根本顾不上救人

“taxi drivers said that police were busy beating people”

这次平息暴乱中，我们那么多同志负了伤，甚至牺牲了，武器也被抢去了，这是为什么？也是因为好人坏人混杂在一起，使我们有些应该采取的断然措施难于出手。处理这件事对我们军队是一次很严峻的政治考验，实践证明，我们的解放军考试合格。如果用坦克压过去，就会在全国造成是非不清。所以，我要感谢解放军指战员用这种态度来对待暴乱事件。尽管损失是令人痛心的，但可以赢得人民，使是非不明的人改变观点。让大家看看，解放军究竟是什么人，有没有血洗天安门，流血的到底是谁。这个问题清楚了，就使我们取得了主动。虽然牺牲了许多同志非常令人痛心，但客观地分析事件的过程，人们就不得不承认，解放军是人民的子弟兵。这也有助于人民理解在这场斗争中我们所采取的方法，今后解放军遇到问题，采取措施，就都可以得到人民的支持了。这里顺便说一下，以后再不能让人把武器夺去了。总之，这是一个考验，考试是合格的。