The Eastern Turkistan Information Center report

A CLASH BETWEEN TWO YOUNG PEOPLE WITH POLICES IN HOTAN

October,17. 1998

     The inhabitants of Kashgar Region 25 year old Ablimit and Abdusalam were followed by two polices after their arrival in Hotan City. When they were coming into the restorant two polices asked them to give up. But these two young men seized the gun from those polices and killed them.
     Two other polices who were passing by opened the fire in return. As a consequence of  what the both sides were hardly injured.
     Now all of participants of this clash are in Reanimation at a Hotan hospital.
                                       Translation by Mehrigul Qadir