156 dead following ethnic violence in China´s Xinjiang region

Ethnic violence has left at least 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured in China´s Northwest Xinjiang autonomous region this week. The worst riots are over in the regional capital of Urumqi, although several protesters of the Uighur ethnic group were arrested outside a mosque today, while Amnesty International reports that the editor of a popular Uighur website has been detained in Beijing.
The Chinese government blamed “outside forces” and "terrorist groups" for this week´s violence between members of Uighur ethnic minority and the Han majority.  But analysts say the recent violence stems from a series of unaddressed grievances, affecting China´s Uighur community.  FSRN´s Shuk-Wah Chung takes a look at some of these grievances.