URUMQI, China, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- China executed eight people convicted on terrorism charges, including three it claimed were responsible for the October attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
Officials in Xinjiang province in western China -- where an indigenous Uighur population is seeing its religious and culture traditions suppressed by the government -- said the three were "masterminds" of the Tiananmen Square incident, in which five people died when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded. The other five were convicted of a number of terrorism-related charges.