BEIJING - China's far western Xinjiang region has launched a campaign to stamp out rising religious extremism, state media said on Wednesday, after several violent attacks blamed on separatist Islamic fundamentalists.
Xinjiang is home to the mainly Mohammedan Turkic-speaking Uighur people, many of whom chafe at Chinese government controls on their culture and religion.
Provincial authorities aim via "public lectures" throughout Xinjiang to "rally mass support for the government's religious policies and to discourage illegal religious activities," the official Xinhua news agency reported. |