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Investigation into Xinjiang public security officials

CHINA is investigating seven people, mostly security officials, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on suspicion of graft, the regional government’s anti-corruption watchdog said.

Hundreds of people have been killed in terrorist attacks in the northwest China region in the past two years, and Islamist militants also launched attacks in other parts of China, including Beijing.

The region’s discipline inspection committee said those being investigated included six senior public security officials from Hotan and Karakax counties in Xinjiang’s south, as well as the former deputy Party secretary of Xinjiang’s education department.

All seven were being investigated for “serious disciplinary violations,” it said, using the usual government euphemism for corruption. It did not provide further details.

Hotan and Karakax have been at the frontline of China’s war on terror.

In December, attackers drove a vehicle into a government building in Karakax, setting off an explosive device and using knives to kill two people before all three assailants were shot dead.

Last month, another three violent terror suspects were shot dead by police in Hotan.

The government anti-corruption watchdog’s statement did not specify the ethnicity of the seven officials under investigation, but all appeared to have Uygur names.

The anti-graft watchdog said yesterday that one of its former senior officials in Xinjiang, Han Xincheng, had also been put under investigation for suspected corruption, though it gave no details.

Han worked in Xinjiang’s Party discipline division from 1984 to 2015, according to his official biography.


 

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