That crackdown in Xinjiang I mentioned? Through BBC Monitoring, but originally from the Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy:
Our centre learned that, to prevent terrorist strikes from developing into another upsurge during the time when the nation marks the October 1 National Day, Xinjiang is currently mobilizing 200,000 officers and men of the public security force, the Armed Police Force and militia force to undertake a carpet search among the transient population. Some areas have even reinstated feudal society's 10-household mutually insured system - a system under which people of 10 families were liable to punishment when one person in the families was found to have committed an offence.
Via. Collective punishment? No, mutual insurance. Those found to be in breach of their insurance conditions will be denied access to schools, jobs etc. The report also states that there are 200,000 police and paramilitary officers sweeping the province, setting up checkpoints, registering the floating population and searching for “key elements subject to controls.”
Caveat: I can’t find any English language confirmation of this, and it seems way too big to keep completely quiet. It does fit in with this piece predicting a crackdown after the Olympics ended. Three of the cops killed in Xinjiang during August were also attacked while manning a checkpoint.
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