Violence sparked by terrorist videos
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POLICE seized 1.8 tons of bomb-making material and caught five suspects in a raid in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region earlier this week, officials revealed yesterday.
The alleged terrorist group, led by Abliz Dawut, was busted in south Xinjiang’s Hotan Prefecture on Monday, according to a regional publicity department statement.
The suspects are said to have watched videos and listened to audio files on terrorist activities, and they also collected material to make explosive devices.
The statement said Abliz and the members of his gang are suspected of making explosive devices the night after a terror attack on a market in Urumqi on May 22 and of planning similar attacks at places where crowds would gather in Hotan.
Similar raids were carried out in Aksu, Kashgar and Ili prefectures, leading to the arrest of more suspects allegedly involved in terrorist attacks, the spreading of terror videos and audio files, the illegal production of explosives and illegal immigration.
On Sunday, Xinjiang’s public security department said that 23 terror and religious extremist groups had been busted and more than 200 suspects caught since the beginning of this month in south Xinjiang’s Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu prefectures.
Last year, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, listed by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist group, produced 107 terror videos and audio files, some of which were spread to China, according to a senior police officer in Xinjiang.
Many suspects caught in recent years carried out terrorist activities as a result of similar material, Nuriman Rozi, said.
Xinjiang began a one-year campaign against terrorist violence last Friday.
The region saw its bloodiest day in five years the previous day when 39 people were killed in a terrorist attack. The campaign will focus on terrorists and religious extremist groups, gun and explosive manufacturing dens and terrorist training camps.
Legal, procuratorial and public security authorities in Xinjiang issued a joint statement on Saturday, calling for criminals involved in terrorist activities to surrender for lenient punishments.
The statement forbids people to organize, lead or join any terrorist groups. It bans people from implementing or instigating terrorist violence. It also prohibits people from directly or indirectly funding, supporting or harboring terrorist activities, terrorist organizations and terrorists.
The statement also bans people from manufacturing, trading, transporting, publicizing, copying and possessing propaganda materials involving terrorist violence and religious extremism.
Manufacturing, trading, transporting, storing and holding guns, ammunition, flammable and combustible materials as well as certain kinds of knives are also prohibited.
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