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"Islam In Xinjiang Needs To Be Sinicised", Says China's Top Official
Xinjiang's top Communist Party official said on Thursday that the "Sinicisation" of Islam in the Muslim-majority region in northwestern China, where Beijing is accused of human rights abuses, is "inevitable".
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China Orders People "Poisoned By Extremism, Terrorism" To Confess Crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping Wants 'Great Wall Of Steel' In Xinjiang
Xi issued the traditional military rallying call on Friday, during a session of the National People's Congress, China's annual parliament in Beijing, The Guardian reported.
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China Rejects US Report On Terrorism
China has rejected a US report on terrorism, saying that it carried "false accounts" of its crackdown on East Turkistan Islamic Movement in the volatile Xinjiang province.
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3 China Executives Among Dead as President Condemns Mali Attack
Chinese President Xi Jinping today condemned the "cruel and savage" attack by Islamist militants on a hotel in Mali's capital that killed 19 people, including three Chinese executives of a state-run railway firm.
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28 'Terrorist Group Members' Shot Dead in China's Xinjiang: Authorities
Chinese police have killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced today, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western "double standards" in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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Chinese Security Forces Kill 17 in Xinjiang: Reports
Chinese security forces in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have killed 17 people, including women and children, accused of involvement in an attack at a coal mine that left at least 50 dead, US-based Radio Free Asia said today.
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China to Prosecute Former Xinjiang Editor Who Queried Party Line
China will prosecute the former editor-in-chief of the official Communist Party publication in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang on charges of corruption after he queried ethnic and security policies, the paper said today.
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Uighurs Sold as 'Cannon Fodder' for Extremists: China
Uighurs from China's Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like Islamic State as "cannon fodder", a senior Chinese official said.
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At Least 18 Killed in Bomb Attack in China's Xinjiang: Report
Ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's far western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported today, and at least 18 people were killed.
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"Islam In Xinjiang Needs To Be Sinicised", Says China's Top Official
Xinjiang's top Communist Party official said on Thursday that the "Sinicisation" of Islam in the Muslim-majority region in northwestern China, where Beijing is accused of human rights abuses, is "inevitable".
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China Orders People "Poisoned By Extremism, Terrorism" To Confess Crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping Wants 'Great Wall Of Steel' In Xinjiang
Xi issued the traditional military rallying call on Friday, during a session of the National People's Congress, China's annual parliament in Beijing, The Guardian reported.
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China Rejects US Report On Terrorism
China has rejected a US report on terrorism, saying that it carried "false accounts" of its crackdown on East Turkistan Islamic Movement in the volatile Xinjiang province.
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3 China Executives Among Dead as President Condemns Mali Attack
Chinese President Xi Jinping today condemned the "cruel and savage" attack by Islamist militants on a hotel in Mali's capital that killed 19 people, including three Chinese executives of a state-run railway firm.
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28 'Terrorist Group Members' Shot Dead in China's Xinjiang: Authorities
Chinese police have killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced today, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western "double standards" in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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Chinese Security Forces Kill 17 in Xinjiang: Reports
Chinese security forces in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have killed 17 people, including women and children, accused of involvement in an attack at a coal mine that left at least 50 dead, US-based Radio Free Asia said today.
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China to Prosecute Former Xinjiang Editor Who Queried Party Line
China will prosecute the former editor-in-chief of the official Communist Party publication in the violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang on charges of corruption after he queried ethnic and security policies, the paper said today.
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Uighurs Sold as 'Cannon Fodder' for Extremists: China
Uighurs from China's Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like Islamic State as "cannon fodder", a senior Chinese official said.
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At Least 18 Killed in Bomb Attack in China's Xinjiang: Report
Ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's far western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported today, and at least 18 people were killed.
