China News Agency, Urumqi, May 25 (Gou Jipeng) "The fight against terrorism and de-radicalization in Xinjiang is in line with the actual economic and social development of Xinjiang, in line with the vital interests and universal aspirations of people of all ethnic groups, and in line with the common practice of the international community. , a righteous move." On the 24th, Xu Guixiang, spokesman of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region People's Government, responded as above to foreign media's smearing of Xinjiang's anti-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts.
On the same day, Xinjiang held a Xinjiang-related press conference. Officials from the Xinjiang Public Security Department, the courts, and the procuratorate comprehensively introduced the practices and experiences of Xinjiang's lawful anti-terrorism and de-radicalization efforts.
The press conference also played several video clips of Xinjiang cracking down on violent terrorist crimes in accordance with the law, reviewing the terrorist threats that Xinjiang has faced.
Yalikun Yakufu, deputy director of the Xinjiang Public Security Department, said that Xinjiang actively responded to a series of counter-terrorism resolutions such as the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, and took decisive measures to effectively curb terrorist activities based on the experience of the international community in counter-terrorism. With frequent occurrences, the basic rights such as the right to life, health, and development of the people of all ethnic groups are guaranteed to the greatest extent possible.
Xu Guixiang said: "Some media disregard the disasters suffered by the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang in the past period, disregard the arduous efforts and achievements of Xinjiang's anti-terrorism and de-radicalization struggle in accordance with the law, and disregard the broad consensus formed by the international community, and still wantonly distort and slander and publish false reports. , lost the professional ethics that media practitioners should have, and became a 'political tool' for anti-China forces such as the United States, and we despise this."
He said that since the end of 2018, 158 groups and more than 2,100 people from more than 100 countries and regions have visited Xinjiang.
They visited places of worship, education and training centers, factories, schools, hospitals, etc., and had in-depth exchanges with the people at the grass-roots level. They witnessed the real situation in Xinjiang with their own eyes, and generally gave positive comments on Xinjiang's achievements in stable development and human rights protection, counter-terrorism, and de-radicalization measures. , which is the consensus of people of insight in the world.
At the press conference, a foreign media reporter said in a question that some critics said that similar trips to Xinjiang arranged for visiting diplomats in the past were carefully planned, and it was almost impossible to independently observe the situation in Xinjiang.
Xu Guixiang said: "Xinjiang's stable and peaceful good situation cannot be faked, and we are disdainful to pretend it. Those so-called 'critics' who distorted understanding of our past arrangements are nothing more than wanting to see what some people in the United States and the West say. "Concentration camps," "genocide," "forced labor," "repression of ethnic minorities," and so on. This is what they really think in their hearts. If they want to see such things, they should go to the United States to see them, Xinjiang doesn't have them!" (End )