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Riot policemen lead men who are about to be executed into a police van in this still image taken from a video in an unknown location in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, on June 16, 2014. (Reuters/CCTV/via Reuters TV)


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This picture taken on June 6, 2014, shows security forces participating in a military drill in Hetian, northwest China’s Xinjiang region. China vowed a year-long campaign against terrorism after attackers in Xinjiang killed 39 people in a suicide raid. The statement said the campaign would last until June 2015 and is aimed at “preventing the spread of religious extremism” from Xinjiang to the country’s interior. (AFP Photo)


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A man lays a wreath on the square outside the railway station in Kunming, southwest China’s Yunnan province on March 2, 2014. (AFP Photo)


China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead

China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead

Kunming, Reuters—Witnesses to chilling violence at a Chinese train station placed under heavy security on Sunday recalled moments of fear and chaos after at least 29 people were killed in what authorities called a terrorist attack by Xinjiang militants. Officials said...
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In this Jan. 7, 2014 photo, paramilitary policemen train in a snow in Kashgar, in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. China’s restive Xinjiang region is doubling its budget for fighting terrorism following an unusually bloody year of anti-government attacks. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT


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In this file picture taken on June 12, 2010, University professor, blogger, and member of the Muslim Uighur minority, Ilham Tohti, pauses before a classroom lecture in Beijing. (AFP Photo/Files/Frederic J. brown)


China detains prominent Uighur scholar

China detains prominent Uighur scholar

Beijing, Reuters—Chinese police have detained the country’s most high-profile Uighur academic, an outspoken critic of official policies in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, on suspicion of “breaking the law,” the government said on...