article_snippet: Three Chinese separatists who were involved in an a knife attack that killed 31 people at a train station last year have been executed.
article_snippet: Three men have now been executed for Three men role in a knife attack at Kunming railway station .
article_snippet: a knife attack at Kunming railway station also left 141 people injured and Chinese state run media dubbed the incident as 'China's 9/11' China uses both lethal injection and firing squad for executions, but the method used this time was not specified.
article_snippet: The attack in Kunming, in the south western province of Yunnan, was dubbed as 'China's 9/11' by state-run media.
article_snippet: Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress said: 'China is using the death penalty for political means in order to avoid the root cause of the problem.'
article_snippet: However, China has vowed to step up punishment of 'violent terrorists', and is drafting China first-ever anti-terrorism law.
article_snippet: Chinese courts convicted 712 people on terrorism-related charges last year, an increase of more than 13 per cent, according to chief justice Zhou Qiang.
article_snippet: China executes more people than the rest of the world combined, according to rights organisations, and put an estimated 2,400 people to death in 2013.