China’s majority racial faction, Han Chinese went on a rampage donning meat hatchets, spades and clubs as they skimmed the streets of Urumqi, the regional capital of West China, trying to seek vengeance on the minority Muslim Uighurs, who had earlier created pandemonium by battering up people that eventually escalated to the country’s nastiest racial aggression ever seen in decades.

Riots initially erupted on Sunday, taking the death toll to more than 156 people. Fresh hostility broke out once again on Tuesday despite throngs of paramilitary troops taking stringent steps to normalize situation that involved the detaining of 1400 people.

Elements of the Uighur group assaulted people close to the Urumqi railway station, while women in head gears staged demonstrations opposing the arrests of their kin in parts of the city.

A curfew was further imposed following a gang of 1000 Han Chinese who ventured on the streets armed to the teeth to reach the Uighur neighbourhood. They were dispersed by the police who fired tear gas shells. The Han Chinese people had reportedly bought bottled water with them fearing that the Uighurs might poison their drinking water.

These violent outbursts have been a major shame for the Chinese headship who are busy putting in order the arrangements for the 60th anniversary of communalist rule that preaches the founding of a peaceable society.

Unrestricted media coverage showing brutality has further added fuel to the fire. The Government believes that the riots occurred due to inciting of a section of people by the World Uighur Congress that have their roots in Germany and US.

Traffic restraints have been enforced and people have been instructed to stay off the roads between 9pm Tuesday to 8am Wednesday to avert any disarray.