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Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International regularly express concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in East Turkistan. However, due to the Chinese authorities' tight controls on information, accurate and timely analysis of developments in East Turkistan is extremely difficult.
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Strike Hard Campaigns are used throughout China as a means for the government to keep its population under control. The campaigns are generally typified by a speeding up of judicial processes, resulting in few if any significant safeguards against wrongful convictions as police attempt to fulfil "quotas" of arrests. However, while Chinese authorities wage periodic campaigns in other parts of China, the latest “strike hard” campaign in East Turkistan has been going on for the last six years.
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Chinese commandos in campaign against Xinjiang's Islamist 'rebels'
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Security forces will comb through cities 24 hours a day to conduct identity checks and searches
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China Begins Security Crackdown in Western Region
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China announced a two-month “strike hard” security campaign on Tuesday in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, with 24-hour police patrols of crowded areas, identity checks, street searches, increased criminal investigations and accelerated trials.
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China launches 2-month Xinjiang terror crackdown
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Chinese security forces have launched a two-month "strike hard" crackdown against violence, terrorism and radical Islam following renewed ethnic violence in the restive western region of Xinjiang, the regional government said Tuesday.
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China vows crack down on 'terrorism' after attacks
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The top official in China's restive Xinjiang has vowed to "resolutely" crack down on "terrorists" after a series of deadly attacks hit the northwestern region, the local government said Monday.
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China Vows Crackdown on Religious Extremists
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China's state media say the top official in western Xinjiang region has ordered a harsh crackdown on religious extremists in the heavily Muslim region.
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