Every Xinjiang village to get a police officer
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January 31, 2012, Tuesday
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AUTHORITIES in far west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are to recruit 8,000 police officers to be deployed in villages to beef up security in the countryside.
The recruitment program will enable each village in the ethnic region to have at least one officer, a spokesman with the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of the Communist Party's Xinjiang committee yesterday.
Officers, with auxiliary police and militia, are mainly tasked with patrolling, managing the migrant population and cracking down on illegal religious activities, the spokesman said.
"It's an important move for Xinjiang to consolidate the foundation of security and ensure lasting peace and stability in the region," he said.
Xinjiang has been battling separatism, extremism and terrorism for decades. About 41.5 percent of Xinjiang's 21 million population are Uygurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group, and security experts worry that growing religious extremism in the region has fanned violent attacks over the past few years.
During Xinjiang's most deadly unrest in decades, 197 people were killed and about 1,700 injured after riots broke out in Urumqi on July 5, 2009.
Afterwards, central government sought to boost economic development in the region, hoping that greater prosperity would bring an end to the violence.
This month, a high-ranking security official in Xinjiang pledged to guard against "violent terrorism" to create a harmonious social environment ahead of the 18th CPC National Congress, to be held in the second half of the year.
Xiong Xuanguo, secretary of the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of the CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, said local authorities must intensify the crackdown on religious extremist activities "for the sound, rapid development of Xinjiang's society and economy."
The recruitment program will enable each village in the ethnic region to have at least one officer, a spokesman with the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of the Communist Party's Xinjiang committee yesterday.
Officers, with auxiliary police and militia, are mainly tasked with patrolling, managing the migrant population and cracking down on illegal religious activities, the spokesman said.
"It's an important move for Xinjiang to consolidate the foundation of security and ensure lasting peace and stability in the region," he said.
Xinjiang has been battling separatism, extremism and terrorism for decades. About 41.5 percent of Xinjiang's 21 million population are Uygurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group, and security experts worry that growing religious extremism in the region has fanned violent attacks over the past few years.
During Xinjiang's most deadly unrest in decades, 197 people were killed and about 1,700 injured after riots broke out in Urumqi on July 5, 2009.
Afterwards, central government sought to boost economic development in the region, hoping that greater prosperity would bring an end to the violence.
This month, a high-ranking security official in Xinjiang pledged to guard against "violent terrorism" to create a harmonious social environment ahead of the 18th CPC National Congress, to be held in the second half of the year.
Xiong Xuanguo, secretary of the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of the CPC Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee, said local authorities must intensify the crackdown on religious extremist activities "for the sound, rapid development of Xinjiang's society and economy."
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