China plans anti-terrorism centre

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China plans anti-terrorism centre
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saver111	Aug 25 2005, 07:05 PM Post #1
PDFF Moderator Posts: 10,625 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	China charges 17 with running guns Trial one of biggest arms-smuggling cases in nation's history BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Seventeen Chinese have been charged with running guns from Pakistan in one of the largest arms-smuggling cases in China's history, state media said on Thursday. The defendants, who went on trial on Tuesday in the remote western province of Qinghai, neighboring Tibet, are accused of buying more than 900 guns and 1,500 gun accessories in Pakistan, the China Daily said. They were sold in Kashgar, in China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang, and in Xining, capital of Qinghai, the China Daily reported. It was not clear whether the guns were headed for Muslim separatists in Xinjiang, who have been fighting for decades for an independent "East Turkestan" homeland and whom Beijing calls terrorists, or to meet demand amid a growing wave of violent crime that has come with China's economic reforms. Privately owned firearms and explosives are illegal in China but are still made in many underground workshops. China has long been Pakistan's main source in legitimate arms trade and the two sides are producing a fighter aircraft together. The trial in Qinghai was scheduled to finish on Saturday and sentences should be passed within two weeks, the report said. Some defendants could face the death penalty, it said. Chinese newspapers, unrestrained by defamation and contempt of court laws common in the West, often assume the guilt of a defendant before a verdict has been announced. Quote: It was not clear whether the guns were headed for Muslim separatists in Xinjiang, who have been fighting for decades for an independent "East Turkestan" homeland and whom Beijing calls terrorists, or to meet demand amid a growing wave of violent crime that has come with China's economic reforms. Hmmm, China looks like starting to have its own Muslim separatist problem like Thailand and of course, us!
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saver111	Sep 1 2005, 07:42 PM Post #2
PDFF Moderator Posts: 10,625 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	China plans anti-terrorism centre China is planning to set up a regional centre aimed at training policemen in anti-terror operations, according to a state-run website. The centre, which would be based in the restive province of Xinjiang, would cost $86m, Xinjiang Tianshan said. It is aimed at training police from the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation - China, Russia, Kazahkstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Armed police staged anti-terror exercises in Xinjiang on Tuesday. The centre is expected to operational in five years, the Xinjiang Tianshan website said. It will "undertake the task of research and education courses on �terrorism, separatism and religious extremism'", the site said. China is anxious to curb what it sees as a terrorist threat from Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang in western China. Some Uighurs are eager to re-establish an independent Islamic nation, called East Turkestan. "We have suffered terrorist threat in the recent 10 years by the activities of 'East Turkestan' separatists both at home and abroad, as well as other international terrorists and terrorist organisations," Zhao Yongchen, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security's counter-terrorism bureau, told an international law conference in Beijing this week. Last month, China announced it was setting up elite police squads in 36 cities to counter the threat of terrorism. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4201572.stm It will "undertake the task of research and education courses on �terrorism, separatism and religious extremism'"
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