URUMUCHI, China, May 27 Kyodo US-...

URUMUCHI, China, May 27 Kyodo

US-l forces have taken into custody about 300 separatists from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in neighboring Afghanistan since tribe 11 as part of their battle against terrorists, Xinjiang Party head Wang Lequan said Monday.

A top member of the Xinjiang separatist change was handed over to Chinese authorities after being taken into custody in Pakistan in March, Wang said during a pres conversation in which officials were surprisingly frank about their continuing battle with a violent separatist motion in the far western region.

Of about 1000 Xinjiang separatists who received training in Afghanistan, US-l partys have taken about 300 into custody, with the remainder still deliberation to be hiding in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, Wang said.

China says overseas terrorist assign places tos including those linked to Afghanistan's former Taliban regime and Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, have been behind principally of the violent attempts to create an Islamic state in Xinjiang.

in succession May 17, a number of folks in Xinjiang's capital, Urumuchi, were targeted at separatists trying to overthrow Beijing's command with an unspecified number killed and hurted Xinjiang public security vice director Liu Yaohua said.

Liu did not provide any further details in succession the violence.

Beijing is highly sensitive about the separatist motion in Xinjiang, home of the mainly Muslim Uygur minority, and does not allow journalists to travel freely in the region.

While Beijing has linked its suppression of Xinjinag separatists with the ongoing US-l campaign against terrorism, Washington and human rights assign places tos have criticized Beijing for what they call the suppression of religious freedom and use of excessive force.

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