Chinese state-controlled television broadcast graphic footage of cars being smashed and people being beaten . Officials reiterated the party line : XUAR chairman Nur Bekri delivered a lengthy address on the situation and on the Shaoguan incident , and claimed that the government of both Guangdong and Xinjiang had dealt with the deaths of the workers properly and with respect . Bekri further condemned the riots as " premeditated and planned " ; Eligen Imibakhi , chairman of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang Regional People 's Congress , blamed 5 July riots on " extremism , separatism and terrorism "
Shaoguan incident
Shaoguan incident
July 2009 Ürümqi riots