Terrorists Strike again After President Xi Jinping Promised Zero Tolerance

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday promised “zero tolerance” to terrorism, separatism and extremism in collaboration on security issues with Asian countries. He said on the sidelines of the Fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Development in Asia (CICA), a forum for regional security and cooperation. A day later, terrorist violence has erupted again in Xinjiang, where Thursday 31 people were killed and 94 injured in an attack with explosives at a street market in the capital, Urumqi.

The timing is no coincidence, according to Xiong Kunxin professor of Ethnic Theory at the University of Ethnic Minorities in Beijing. ” The time and place chosen for the attack are related to the meeting in Shanghai. The terrorists want to challenge what President Xi Jinping said on the ‘zero tolerance’ and combating the three forces (terrorism, separatism and extremism). They wanted to say: Now what can do, now, what to do “?

Xiong is convinced that the perpetrators of the attack ” have connections with international terrorism,” manifested by the Beijing government position whenever an attack occurs, although some foreign experts have doubts that this is so. States that chose a street market because it is a site that does not draw attention, where there is no security measures as those that have been implanted in train stations. “They searched the weak point. I imagine that the weaknesses will be their new goals. “

Xiong says that to combat this violence, ” the government should encourage and reward people to report on the possible existence of terrorists.” “These people are living a normal life among us.”

The attack also occurred on Wednesday after a court in Xinjiang informed that 39 people have been sentenced to prison terms ranging up to 15 years in prison for crimes such as sound and video broadcast ” that spread terrorist violence.” According to the official news agency China News Service, several of them ” organized, led and participated ” in terrorist organizations. The names of some of the damned suggest that belong to the Uighur ethnic minority. Top – of sentences 14 and 15 years, were issued against two accused of promoting ” holy war.”

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