![a group of people walking in the snow: Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China’s Xinjiang region.]({"default":{"load":"default","w":"80","h":"48","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBUUBOL.img?h=480&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1536&y=1188"},"size3column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"38","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBUUBOL.img?h=375&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1536&y=1188"},"size2column":{"load":"default","w":"62","h":"38","src":"//img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBUUBOL.img?h=375&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1536&y=1188"}})
China claims it has arrested 13,000 “terrorists” in Xinjiang over the last five years, as it launched an aggressive propaganda campaign in defence of its restrictive measures in the far-western region.
China’s state council released a white paper on “the fight against terrorism and extremism” and “human rights protection in Xinjiang”, in which Beijing attempted to quantify the campaign.
Since 2014, Xinjiang has destroyed 1,588 violent and terrorist gangs, arrested 12,995 terrorists, seized 2,052 explosive devices, punished 30,645 people for 4,858 illegal religious activities, and confiscated 345,229 copies of illegal religious material,” the report concludes.Human rights advocates believe more than 1 million Chinese minorities, Uighurs as well as Kazakhs and other groups, are being systematically forced to undergo political re-education. Just a thought.
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