BEIJING: China stated Monday it had arrested about 13,000 "terrorists" in a large crackdown towards militants within the volatile Uygur Muslim-majority Xinjiang region since 2014, denying grievance that Beijing is "buying" silence of the Muslim global with heavy investments in Pakistan and different Islamic international locations.
China has faced mounting grievance for the detention of 1000's of Uygur Muslims in massive "education camps".
"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 materials," a white paper released Monday stated.
It stated that some spaces in Xinjiang have been severely disturbed by way of terrorism and the infiltration of non secular extremism.
"For this reason, some people cannot speak, read or write in standard Chinese, have a weak understanding of rule of law, and have difficulty finding employment through a lack of employable skills. As a result, such people are more inclined to be incited or coerced into criminality by terrorist and extremist forces," it stated.
China has made vital growth in its counterterrorism and de-radicalisation efforts in Xinjiang, it stated.
"However, the three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism are not gone; their influence can still be felt. And the 'East Turkistan' forces are in search of opportunities to create trouble. We still face a severe and complex situation in combating terrorism and extremism in Xinjiang," it stated.
Separately, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang has denied China is "buying the silence" of Muslim international locations with massive investments throughout the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), of which the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship undertaking.
Diplomats from Pakistan and a number of other different Muslim international locations, who have been just lately taken on a guided excursion of Xinjiang following allegations of detention of over a million Uygurs, stated there used to be no religious and cultural repression.
Asked whether China's used to be making an investment closely in Muslim international locations to shop for their silence, Geng told the journalists that the BRI investments had not anything to do with Xinjiang comparable problems.
"China pursues preventive counter terrorism measures. I believe the international community recognises this," he stated.
The UN human rights panel stated in August last year that it had received many credible reports that about a million ethnic Uygurs in China in "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy".
China defended the camps, saying they are re-education camps aimed at de-radicalising sections of the Uygur Muslim inhabitants from extremism and separatism.
The US and a number of other different international locations, but even so UN officials, have expressed fear over the camps.
Xinjiang has been in turmoil for the last a number of years following Uygur protests over huge scale settlements of Han Chinese into the resource-rich province.
China blames the separatist East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for the violent terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and different parts of the rustic within the last a number of years.
Numerous Uygurs reportedly joined Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and have been making plans to go back.
China has faced mounting grievance for the detention of 1000's of Uygur Muslims in massive "education camps".
"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 materials," a white paper released Monday stated.
It stated that some spaces in Xinjiang have been severely disturbed by way of terrorism and the infiltration of non secular extremism.
"For this reason, some people cannot speak, read or write in standard Chinese, have a weak understanding of rule of law, and have difficulty finding employment through a lack of employable skills. As a result, such people are more inclined to be incited or coerced into criminality by terrorist and extremist forces," it stated.
China has made vital growth in its counterterrorism and de-radicalisation efforts in Xinjiang, it stated.
"However, the three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism are not gone; their influence can still be felt. And the 'East Turkistan' forces are in search of opportunities to create trouble. We still face a severe and complex situation in combating terrorism and extremism in Xinjiang," it stated.
Separately, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang has denied China is "buying the silence" of Muslim international locations with massive investments throughout the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), of which the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship undertaking.
Diplomats from Pakistan and a number of other different Muslim international locations, who have been just lately taken on a guided excursion of Xinjiang following allegations of detention of over a million Uygurs, stated there used to be no religious and cultural repression.
Asked whether China's used to be making an investment closely in Muslim international locations to shop for their silence, Geng told the journalists that the BRI investments had not anything to do with Xinjiang comparable problems.
"China pursues preventive counter terrorism measures. I believe the international community recognises this," he stated.
The UN human rights panel stated in August last year that it had received many credible reports that about a million ethnic Uygurs in China in "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy".
China defended the camps, saying they are re-education camps aimed at de-radicalising sections of the Uygur Muslim inhabitants from extremism and separatism.
The US and a number of other different international locations, but even so UN officials, have expressed fear over the camps.
Xinjiang has been in turmoil for the last a number of years following Uygur protests over huge scale settlements of Han Chinese into the resource-rich province.
China blames the separatist East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for the violent terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and different parts of the rustic within the last a number of years.
Numerous Uygurs reportedly joined Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and have been making plans to go back.
China says 13,000 "terrorists" held in restive Xinjiang
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