Chinese authorities say they executed two men on Thursday in therestive far-west region of Xinjiang for a deadly attack on borderpolice four days before the Olympic Games last year.
Courtofficials announced the decision to execute Abdurahman Azat, 34, andKurbanjan Hemit, 29, to an audience of about 4,000 local officials andresidents at a stadium in Kashgar.
The execution was carried out later in private at a separate location.
The two men were members of China's predominantly Muslim Uighur minority.
Theattack was the worst of several before and during the Olympics thatleft dozens of people dead. China claims separatist militants from thenorthwest region intended use the heightened media attention on Chinato gain publicity for their cause.
The twomen were sentenced to death in December for carrying out the August 4attack in Kashgar and intending to "sabotage" the Olympics.
Seventeenpeople were killed and 15 wounded when the men drove a truck into agroup of policemen and then attacked them with bombs and knives.