1. Crackdown on campus separatists
  Source: Hong Kong Standard (on-line), 4 June 1996
  http://www.hkstandard.com/online/news/002/china/news002.htm
 
  CHINESE authorities have expanded a crackdown on separatists and
  illegal religious activities to include colleges and schools
  throughout the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, officials
  said.
  
  Meanwhile, police in the mainly Muslim region have arrested more
  than 2,700 people since the launch of an anti-crime campaign at the
  end of April, a newspaper quoted officials as saying.
  
  About 640 criminal groups have been broken up, the China Business
  Times said without specifying how many separatists, who had been
  very active in recent months, were arrested.
  
  The ``Strike Hard'' campaign against crime and ``terrorism'' in the
  region had netted more than 600 guns since it was launched in early
  April, the newspaper said.
  
  It quoted an official as saying six cases involved ``terrorists''
  who had ``killed rural cadres and assassinated progressive religious
  leaders''. All six cases had been succcessfully dealt with, the
  official said.
  
  The frontier region that borders Afghanistan, Pakistan and three
  mostly Muslim Central Asian states has been shaken in recent weeks
  by several violent clashes and political killings involving
  separatists who want to end Chinese rule in Xinjiang.
  
  In the latest expansion of the crackdown, Xinjiang Television
  reported that starting this month, ``our region will concentrate on
  thoroughly clearing up and rectifying college campuses and
  neighbouring areas''.
  
  Colleges must ``resolutely oppose national separatism, resist and
  stop the infiltration of religions into colleges and remove their
  influence on students'', Xinjiang Television at the weekend quoted a
  vice-chairman of the local government, Wang Huaiyu, as saying.
  
  The crackdown on crime would hit at ``all kinds of law-breaking and
  criminal offences that pose a danger to colleges'', he said.
  
  ``Efforts will be made to oust outsiders from colleges and to
  strengthen public order on campuses,'' the report said.
  
  ``Students are not adults and lack the ability of self-protection,''
  an official of the Xinjiang Education Commission said.
  
  The separatists interfered in campus life, a Xinjiang Television
  editor said from the regional capital, Urumqi.
  
  ``They interfere with study and the administration of education
  institutes,'' the official said.
  
  Xinjiang government leaders fighting to curb the increasingly
  violent campaign for more independence have warned that
  ``splittism'' and illegal religious activities pose the biggest
  threat to stability in the region.
  
  In a campaign to suppress the separatists, officials have banned
  construction of new mosques, tightened controls on religion and
  ordered stricter searches for weapons hidden in goods and luggage
  entering Xinjiang, local officials have said.
  
  At the Xinjiang Koran College, an official in the security office
  said everything was quiet.
  
  ``Come and have a look, and you'll see there's no problem,'' he
  said.
  
  Last week, a policeman and a Muslim separatist were shot dead and a
  policeman was injured in a gun battle in which police arrested those
  wanted for stabbing and wounding a local religious leader and his
  son.
  
  An underground group of pro-independence ``splittists'' based in
  Urumqi has killed six or seven people since February and nine armed
  Muslim activists were killed by police in late April in Kuqa
  district.