According to Xinjiang Party Chief Zhang Chunxian, terrorist activity in the region has dropped \u201csignificantly\u201d.<\/p>\n
Charles Liu
\u200bMarch 10, 2016 10:52am<\/p>\n
According to Xinjiang Party Chief Zhang Chunxian, terrorist activity in the region has dropped \u201csignificantly\u201d.<\/p>\n
Zhang made the comments during the annual \u201ctwo sessions\u201d, claiming religious management and ethnic unity in Xinjiang had undergone \u201cheartening changes\u201d and that the public and officials were in \u201cgood spirits\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last year of economic development, religious administration, ethnic unity and other aspects of society have experienced positive and pleasant developments,\u201d said Zhang. \u201cIn general terms, maintaining the stability has not been an exception. Stability has improved. Violent terrorist incidents have dropped significantly. Our ability to prevent, combat, and deal with them has continued to increase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zhang however made it clear that Beijing has no intention of loosening control over the region: \u201cWherever the terrorist mentality and extremist behavior exists, we will maintain (our policy) of striking hard,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In the Agencies and CRI reports of Zhang\u2019s statement, no details or statistics were released to verify his claim of a decrease in terrorism.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, The Nanfang<\/em> coverage of Xinjiang stories over the past year has included an AIDS epidemic<\/a> said to be \u201cmore dangerous\u201d than regional terrorism, aviolent incident at a Xinjiang coal mine<\/a> in which some 40 people were injured, and thebanning of burqas in public places<\/a>. And just before that, Xinjiang had experienced a crackdown on religious leaders<\/a> as well as instituting a Muslim dress ban<\/a> along with aMuslim public bus ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to Xinjiang Party Chief Zhang Chunxian, terrorist activity in the region has dropped \u201csignificantly\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-2519","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\/2519","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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}