After riots,China to promote anti-separatist laws

In this July 7, 2009 file photo, a Uighur woman faces off Chinese paramilitary police in Urumqi, China. A U.S. group that monitors militant Web sites said an offshoot of a secessionist group with ties to al-Qaida is threatening revenge Thursday, July 16, 2009 on China for the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in clashes this month.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Police have alleged that women wearing long, black Islamic robes and head scarves acted as ringleaders in the ethnic unrest in western Xinjiang, state media reported Monday.
China faced its worst unrest in decades this month when tensions between the dominant Han Chinese and the Turkic-speaking, Muslim Uighurs descended into violence in the regional capital of Urumqi. Nearly 200 people died in the unrest...