...A Xinhua reporter (click here) on the spot said several suspects have been controlled, while police are still questioning people in the station.
The reporter said that firefighters and medical workers have arrived on the scene, and injured people have been rushed to hospital for emergency treatment. The arterial road of the station has been cordoned off.
A doctor with the Kunming No.1 People's Hospital told Xinhua over the phone that medical workers of the hospital are busy treating the injured, adding that they are still unsure of the exact number of casualties.
According to Xinhua reporters at the hospital, a dozen of bodies were
seen at the hospital. As of 0:00 a.m. Sunday, more than 60 victims in
the attack have been sent to the hospital, emergency registration
records showed....
This is downtown Kunming. It is the capital of the Chinese province of Yunnan. The star in the map to the right is Beijing. It is about 400 miles from Hong Kong.Yunnan Province borders with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. I am sure the Chinese are seeking knowledge of those that conducted this attack and any connection to other violence in the region.
28 February 2014
Last updated at 10:44 ET
The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (click here) has expressed its shock at the order to cease operations in Myanmar.
It said it was deeply concerned about the tens of thousands
of people it was treating, particularly for HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB.A presidential spokesman alleged to the BBC that Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was biased in favour of Rakhine's Muslim Rohingya minority.
MSF is one of the biggest providers of healthcare in Rakhine....
The villagers’ accounts (click here) back up a United Nations investigation, which concluded that the attack on Du Chee Yar Tan that night resulted in the deaths of at least 40 men, women and children, one of the worst instances of violence against the country’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims. They were killed, the United Nations says, by local security forces and civilians of the rival Rakhine ethnic group, many of them adherents of an extreme Buddhist ideology who were angered by the kidnapping of a Rakhine policeman by some Rohingya men....
China needs to end it's concerns about Tibet and simply engage in allowing a peaceful religious organization the right to exist. When hatred is allowed to be the tone of any country, it sometimes results in violence against those that hate. I don't know the particulars of the attacks in Yunnan Province capital city, but, if this is China's 911 it needs to be serious about it's tone in the region. Hatred is a method to seek control among the masses, but, results in instability and fuels war and terrorism.
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 26 February, 2014, 11:21am
UPDATED : Wednesday, 26 February, 2014, 7:43pm
When the Dalai Lama came to Washington in 2009 on one of his frequent
lecture tours, Barack Obama did not invite him to the White House as
the new US president sought to start on the right foot with China.
More than four years later, Obama went ahead last week with his third
meeting as president with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. China
called in a US diplomat to protest but the encounter appeared almost
routine, with no stronger repercussions immediately by Beijing.
The episode represents a subtle shift in the complex relationship between the world’s two largest economies as both sides cut through the veneer of hope for broad co-operation and prioritise key interests....
The episode represents a subtle shift in the complex relationship between the world’s two largest economies as both sides cut through the veneer of hope for broad co-operation and prioritise key interests....
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BANGKOK - Myanmar has allowed (click here) Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to resume work in parts of the country, days after it ordered it to close its clinics, but not in the western strife-torn state of Rakhine, the medical aid group said. The United Nations and human rights groups say at least 40 Rohingya were killed by security forces and ethnic Rakhine Buddhist civilians in a restricted area of the state in January....
