Police rescued 54 children from an illegal Koran teaching center in Hotan in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region yesterday, during a raid in which 17 people were injured by suspects setting off explosives that caused a fire.

A total of 12 children suffered mild burns, while three police officers and two of the three suspects arrested were also injured, local authorities said yesterday.

At around 2 am yesterday, police in Hotan, an oasis town in southern Xinjiang's Tarim Basin, received a tipoff from a parent whose child was held at the Koran teaching center.

When police arrived at the scene, the suspects lit home-made explosives that sparked a fire, Hou Hanmin, chief of the regional information office, told the Global Times yesterday.

The raided center was located on the fifth floor of a six-storey residential building. Fire destroyed much of the floor, said a local resident who works a block away from the building.

Source : Chinese site -> http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid...oran-camp.aspx

This is the first time that I have seen the words "Koran" and "illegal" associated together in a news item .

The chinese terrorist forces shall know that a war is awaiting them,muslims are not Tibetans or other koreans.

You are right. How dare they stop criminals from abusing islam by using it as an excuse to physically abuse and torture innocent children.
At least pretend not to be an idiot. Please??

There are attacks especially on muslims in Xinjinag beside this,china is driving itself into a war with muslims in nearby areas,which will lead to further destabilisation of these border regions.

and 2010 is going to tae kwon do them all. the chinese need to be warned.