XINJIANG

March 19, 2019

Chinese government in a official report said that it has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists in the traditionally Islamic region of Xinjiang since 2014 and broken up hundreds of “terrorist gangs.”

Key highlights of the report:

“Law-based de-radicalisation” in Xinjiang has curbed the rise and spread of religious extremism. 1,588 terrorist gangs have been crushed and 12,995 terrorists seized since 2014.
It sought to underplay Islam’s role in the region’s historical makeup, saying that while “Xinjiang received the influence of Islamic culture, but the fact that Xinjiang’s culture is merely a facet of Chinese culture. Islam is not the natural faith of the Uighurs and other ethnicities, nor is it their only faith.
Extremists there have ties to foreign terror groups but have given little evidence to support that.

Source : The Hindu