Police foil Xinjiang terrorist, separatist plots
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May 18, 2013, Saturday
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POLICE authorities estimate they foiled more than 96 percent of planned separatist and terrorist activities in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the past three years, the region's top official said.
Zhang Chunxian, secretary of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China, revealed the stat in an article written for the latest issue of the CPC's flagship magazine, Qiushi (Seeking Truth), published on Thursday.
The article attracted much attention as it was the first time Xinjiang authorities detailed their anti-terrorism efforts and the effectiveness of their work.
Xinjiang now has a firm social basis to maintain stability and the overall situation in the region is becoming better, Zhang wrote.
He said the capability to discover, prevent and crack down on separatist and terrorist activities has improved.
The Qiushi article follows a clash between terrorists and authorities in Kashgar's Bachu County, some 1,200 kilometers southwest of Urumqi, in which 15 community workers and police officers and six terrorists were killed on April 23.
Eight terrorist suspects were captured at the scene and 11 more who fled were detained days after the attack.
Police said they also seized a batch of homemade explosives, knives, jihad flags and various illegal religious publicity materials.
"This terrorist group was already preparing to 'do something big' in Kashgar this summer," said Dai Guanghui, head of Kashgar's public security bureau.
"If the community workers and police officers did not discover the group, they could have attempted a bigger terrorist attack and the consequences could have been more severe," Dai said.
The "three evil forces" of separatism, extremism and terrorism have long been using mobile phones and the Internet to incite terrorist attacks in China, according to a Xinjiang anti-terrorist official who declined to be named.
He said some terrorist group members have tried to cross the border to join groups seeking jihad overseas.
"The fight against the three 'evil forces' has a direct bearing on China's stability and development," said Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Hongwei on April 29.
China has conducted counter-terrorism cooperation and exchanges and launched more than 10 such training sessions and drills with neighboring countries under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Zhang Chunxian, secretary of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party of China, revealed the stat in an article written for the latest issue of the CPC's flagship magazine, Qiushi (Seeking Truth), published on Thursday.
The article attracted much attention as it was the first time Xinjiang authorities detailed their anti-terrorism efforts and the effectiveness of their work.
Xinjiang now has a firm social basis to maintain stability and the overall situation in the region is becoming better, Zhang wrote.
He said the capability to discover, prevent and crack down on separatist and terrorist activities has improved.
The Qiushi article follows a clash between terrorists and authorities in Kashgar's Bachu County, some 1,200 kilometers southwest of Urumqi, in which 15 community workers and police officers and six terrorists were killed on April 23.
Eight terrorist suspects were captured at the scene and 11 more who fled were detained days after the attack.
Police said they also seized a batch of homemade explosives, knives, jihad flags and various illegal religious publicity materials.
"This terrorist group was already preparing to 'do something big' in Kashgar this summer," said Dai Guanghui, head of Kashgar's public security bureau.
"If the community workers and police officers did not discover the group, they could have attempted a bigger terrorist attack and the consequences could have been more severe," Dai said.
The "three evil forces" of separatism, extremism and terrorism have long been using mobile phones and the Internet to incite terrorist attacks in China, according to a Xinjiang anti-terrorist official who declined to be named.
He said some terrorist group members have tried to cross the border to join groups seeking jihad overseas.
"The fight against the three 'evil forces' has a direct bearing on China's stability and development," said Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Hongwei on April 29.
China has conducted counter-terrorism cooperation and exchanges and launched more than 10 such training sessions and drills with neighboring countries under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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