China Launches Crackdown in Xinjiang
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:47 pm under China News China Launches Crackdown in Xinjiang
BEIJING: China Launches Crackdown in Xinjiang, Chinese forces have launched an “iron fist” security crackdown in the troubled western Xinjiang region, promising to end anarchy and “change the face” of public security situation there.
Regional Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang has been rocked by ethnic violence twice this year, in which a total of about 200 people died.
In Xinjiang, the worst ethnic violence in recent decades, Chinese Uighurs have been attacked in Urumqi, in July after taking to the streets to protest against attacks on Uyghur workers of a factory in southern China in June, which left two Uighurs dead.
Urumqi Han Chinese in seeking revenge two days later against the Uighurs, an ethnic Turkish group that calls Xinjiang its homeland. A series of stabbings of needle Uighurs claimed by fed fresh protests in September led by the Han Chinese.
Now the regional government is demanding tough action to bring stability to the region, spokesman of the Communist Party’s People’s Daily reported on Tuesday.
“Since early November, the public security organs in Xinjiang … background on strike ‘hard and punish’ campaign to further consolidate the fruits of maintaining stability and eliminate the security risks”, said.
The security forces would “destroy the places where criminals of race, and change the face of public security situation in these areas,” the report said.
The term “tough” dates from the 1980s, when Chinese police forces launched the campaign, as the sweeps used for catching offenders. Pro-reform China’s legal experts who criticized the late campaigns ignore the rights of suspects and setting targets for arrests that encouraged abuse.
In Xinjiang, energy-rich, strategically located in central Asia has been achieved in recent years by bombings, attacks and rioting by Beijing blamed Uighur separatists demanding an independent “East Turkistan”.
Many Uighurs resent government restrictions on their religion and culture and an influx of Han Chinese settlers, who in some areas have been reduced to a minority in their own land.
Rights groups and Uighur activists say Beijing also exaggerates the threat from extremists to justify tight control.
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