Security Forces: Combat Strength and Police Patrols

security forces: Over the past year, regional leaders in Xinjiang, home to the Uighur pronounced WEE-gur ethnic minority, have ramped up surveillance measures and police patrols and staged massive rallies intended to showcase the power of the security forces, according to The Chronicle Herald. Those demonstrations are intended to declare war against terrorists, to showcase the party and the government's resolve to fight terror, resolve to preserve public safety and China's mighty combat strength, Ahan told officials gathered in Beijing for this month's National People's Congress. Sharhat Ahan, a top political and legal affairs party official in Xinjiang, on Sunday became the latest official from a predominantly Muslim region to warn about China becoming destabilized by the international anti-terror situation and calling for a people's war. Although some scholars question whether global jihadi networks are active in the country, top Chinese officials are increasingly echoing strands of international discourse to back up claims that Islamic extremism is growing worldwide and needs to be rolled back. While it has provided little evidence, the government, says Xinjiang faces a grave separatist threat from Uighur fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. In recent years, hundreds have died in violent incidents mainly in Xinjiang that officials blame on Uighur separatists inspired by the global Jihadi cause. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.