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            China Offers Cash Rewards for Information on Terrorists

   by VOA News

   Officials in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region have established
   a fund of nearly $50 million to offer as rewards for information
   leading to the capture or killing of suspected terrorists.

   Authorities have given more than $16,000 each to six people who gave
   key tips leading to the location of 10 suspected terrorists who were
   hunted down in Hotan province last week.

   China's official Xinhua news agency said police, with the aid of 30,000
   volunteers, tracked the suspects to a farm where police killed nine in
   a gunbattle and captured one.

   Around 200 people have died in unrest over the past year in Xinjiang,
   home to Muslim minority Uighurs. The violence has led Beijing to launch
   a year-long crackdown on what it calls terrorism in the region.
   Hundreds have been detained in the crackdown so far.

   Many Uighurs say they are the victims of state-sanctioned
   discrimination and repression, including restrictions on Muslim
   religious practices and favoritism toward the Han majority. Beijing
   denies that it discriminates against the Uighurs.
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