The most threatening report on the Urumqi crisis that I heard Sunday 12 was from Nury Turkel, former direction of Uyghur American Association, from Washington, who told me that he had not been able to reach his parents in Kashgar for six days. This means that telephone communication with Xinjiang (East Turkistan) is down on purpose, and that it is not just Urumqi that is cut off by the party boss Wang. This resembles the way the Beijing cadre cut off Lhasa and all of Tibet after the Lhasa uprising in winter 2008. It points to the likelihood that there are extreme measures coming against the Uyghur people. PM Erdogan of Turkey called the Beijing actions in Urumqi "genocide."  The police and military presence in Urumqi is said to be dominating.  Thousands are in jail.  I asked my professional panel if the Han Chinese men pictured with clubs in their hands on the street in last week's Reuters video would be arrested.  No one could be certain.  Watching for reports.