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Violence continued despite crackdown
Chinese authorities say in a six-month report card on their security crackdown in Xinjiang that they busted 115 terrorist gangs before they could unleash violence
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hinese authorities say in a six-month report card ontheir security crackdown in Xinjiang that they busted 115 terrorist gangsbefore they could unleash violence. But tallies of death tolls in theethnically tense region suggest the violence has continued, and may even haveintensified.
Information from the region is routinely suppressed so experts caution against any firm conclusions about the level of violence in the far western region that is home to 10 million members of the Muslim Uighur minority, who chafe under what they consider suppression by China's ethnic majority Han.
However, both Chinese state-run media and foreign outlets who monitor Xinjiang have continued to report a stream of deadly clashes.
'It's safe to say that violence has continued roughly as it was before this latest crackdown, if not with greater intensity,' said Rian Thum, an assistant professor specializing in Uighur history at Loyola University New Orleans.
