Chinese security agents have alleged that the bombers of three public buses in Kunming in Yunnan Province on July 21 morning, are Xinjiang rebels from Northern China and they entered from Burma, said sources close to the security agents.
The Chinese government is yet to accuse any separatist group on the Kunming bus bombings but the security agents alleged that Xinjiang separatists are responsible for the explosions, sources close to Chinese security agents told KNG.
The three public buses were bombed in Kunming at 7:07 a.m. local time and at least three people were killed and several injured, according to the Chinese media.
A jade merchant operating on the Sino-Burma border told KNG today, he has often been asked by Chinese intelligence agents, questions like "Do you see Tibetans and Xinjiang people on the border?"
The Chinese government is known to deal with Xinjiang separatists in a tough manner. They are distinctly different from that of China's Han majority, Turkic-speaking Uighurs and adhere to Islamic beliefs. All detainees of the Xinjiang separatist group are sentenced to long prison terms or are sentenced to death, local people said.
On July 30, nine days after the bombing in Kunming buses, all Burmese people in Ying Jiang, a city in Yunnan province close to the Sino-Burma border have been instructed to register for a new residential document by city authorities, according to Burmese jade merchants in the city.
Yesterday night the Chinese police met the Managing Director of Yin Mau (Yin Mou) Hotel, jointly owned by Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and business tycoons in Ying Jiang, where a majority of guests are Burmese. The hotel has been told to register all its Burmese guests for new residential documents, a hotel staff told KNG today.
A hotel staff who met the police said, they informed that all red-coloured border pass document holders must register for a new residential document for five to 15 days. The cost will be 2 Yuan for five to seven days and 5 Yuan for 15 days.
Earlier, all Burmese people in Ying Jiang had lived and worked in Ying Jiang by regularly extending the red-coloured border pass documents issued by the Chinese border checkpoints, said Burmese merchants.
Current instructions for a new residential document by the Chinese authorities have been especially passed on to all hotels and shops where Burmese people are staying, Burmese traders added.
Sino-Burma border security was beefed up and travellers are checked thoroughly by Chinese border security forces after the monk-led anti-Chinese government demonstrations in Tibet in March.
Meanwhile, only nine days are left for the inauguration of the Beijing Olympic Games. However, China has restricted issuing of visas to outsiders fearing foreigners may support Chinese opposition groups and create domestic instability, said sources close to Chinese security agents.
