BEIJING (Reuters) - A prominent exiled Uighur leader has urged China's government to respond calmly to a knife attack in the country's southwest and not "demonise" ethnic Uighurs after Beijing blamed the mass killings on extremists from the far western region of Xinjiang.
Rebiya Kadeer, President of the World Uyghur Congress, also said tension could only be reduced in Xinjiang if China acknowledged rights issues faced by the large Uighur minority.
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