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By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com

Bloody outbreaks of violence in eastern Xinjiang have shattered two major slogans associated with the current and former Chinese presidents: Xi Jinping’s “China Dream” and ex-president Hu Jintao’s “harmonious society.”

Some 40 people, mostly Han-Chinese police and residents in Xinjiang, 44 percent of whose population of 22 million are Muslim Uighurs, were killed in two separate “terrorist incidents” in the prefectures of Turpan and Hotan in late June.

This was despite the fact that the military and police had already put much of this restive autonomous region on high alert in the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the July 5, 2009 riot in the capital city of Urumqi.

The incident, which claimed the lives of 200 mostly Han-Chinese residents, was the single worst case of violence since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1997.

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