[ETIC, 5/15/98] On May 8, a team of Chinese doctors poisoned 150 children in the Kipekyuzi village of Ghulje (Yinin). The team arrived to the village to vaccinate the children. But, instead of a vaccine, local elementary school students received shots with a poison. The poisoned children are reported to be in serious conditions. Some of the parents immediately took their poisoned kids to the hospitals in Urumchi and Beijing seeking medical help.
Shortly after, the same team of doctors arrived to the elementary school # 9 of the city of Ghulje to vaccinate the school children. The Chinese doctors could not present any documents when the school principal, aware of the recent events in the Kipekyuzi village, had asked for directive papers from the Ministry of Health. The principal did not allow the vaccination without a directive from the Ministry of Health, and drove the doctors out of the school.
The events with the vaccination seriously alarmed local Uyghurs. The local government authorities informed the population that the doctors were indeed sent by a directive of the Ministry of Health, but, unfortunately, the separatist elements stole the vaccine and substituted it with a poison. [Tomurchoka]