The Chinese government has stamped down - hard - on protests in the city of Urumqi, capital of the central Asian Muslim-majority East Turkestan region. At least 140 people have been reported to have been killed.

In all the violence, the Chinese news agency had this to say:

"Oops! Not again!" was almost the universal response when news of the unrest came Sunday night, when blood tainted Urumqi, with at least 140 lives lost and more than 800 others injured.

"Fiddle-di-dee, looks like we just killed 140 people. How clumsy of us..."

I think most people's reaction was stronger than that.