Iron hand toward terror

ENOUGH AWARENESS MUST BE ATTACHED TO the severity and complexity of the terrorism situation in the Xinjiang Urgur autonomous region. This is what Zhang Chunxian, the secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of China, said on Sunday after violence in Shache county on July 28 claimed 37 innocent lives and injured 13.

That 59 terrorists were shot dead at the same time and 215 arrested points to how horrible the situation was at the time and that the anti-terror situation there is indeed severe.

Collaboration between terrorist groups outside and within the country has been confirmed in the planning of this incident, and the so-called East Turkistan Islamic Movement has been found to play a major part, according to an investigation. This points to the nature of the incident.