{"id":2306,"date":"2015-12-21T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2015\/12\/21\/beijing-appoints-its-first-counter-terrorism-chief\/"},"modified":"2015-12-21T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:37:06","slug":"beijing-appoints-its-first-counter-terrorism-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/beijing-appoints-its-first-counter-terrorism-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing appoints its first counter-terrorism chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has appointed its first counter-terrorism chief, state media said on Monday, as it wages a controversial campaign to stamp out ethnic violence linked to the western Xinjiang region. <\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;\">2015-12-21 HKT 15:17<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;\">China has appointed its first counter-terrorism chief, state media said on Monday, as it wages a controversial campaign to stamp out ethnic violence linked to the western Xinjiang region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Liu Yuejin was appointed the commissioner of counter-terrorism, the China Daily reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as an assistant minister of public security and has worked on the country&#8217;s anti-narcotics efforts since the 1980s, the paper said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Xinjiang, the homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, has been plagued by unrest in recent years, provoking China to launch a police crackdown on separatist &#8220;terrorists&#8221; it says are behind the violence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the rise of the Islamic State group, Beijing has increasingly attributed the attacks to foreign influence, while some experts see them as a reaction to discrimination and controls over the Uighurs&#8217; culture and religion. Uighur attacks on civilians have claimed hundreds of lives and injured many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has appointed its first counter-terrorism chief, state media said on Monday, as it wages a controversial campaign to stamp out ethnic violence linked to the western Xinjiang region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}