Top official in China's restive Xinjiang transferred
Beijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2014 - The second most senior official in China's strife-torn Xinjiang region has been transferred, reports said Wednesday, after the area saw some of its worst violence in decades. Nur Bekri will be replaced as the area's vice Communist Party secretary by Shohrat Zakir, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Both men are Uighurs, the nine-million-strong Turkic-speaking and mostly Muslim eth ... more
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