It is high time that the Chinese Communist Party revisit the past as a form of lesion the Provence of Xinjiang and listen to the Urumqi people and Tibet people. Instead of calling the ethnic Chinese people as Separatists
Chinese state media has reported that Xinjiang's regional congress is speeding up the passage of laws against separatism in light of the deadly violence that rocked Urumqi earlier this month.
Xinhua quoted Xinjiang Regional People's Congress standing committee chairman Eligen Imibakhi as saying that Xinjiang legislators are working on a raft of laws that would "provide legal assistance to Xinjiang's anti-secession struggle and the cracking down on violence and terrorism."
Mr Imibakhi blamed the July 5 riots, in which nearly 200 died, on extremism, separatism and terrorism, both at home and abroad.
He said that the public's lack of understanding of the laws that are already in place is an "urgent problem," adding that the government plans to distribute legal booklets in ethnic minority languages to farmers and herdsmen across the region.
China already has a national law against secession, though there are no similar regional laws.
Investigators have determined that rioters had stockpiled weapons and planned synchronised attacks across Urumqi.
Targets included the offices of the Xinjiang regional committee of the Communist Party, the public security and fire departments and media organisations.
Xinhua cited the local security department as saying that most rioters were from outside Urumqi.
The news agency reported that Chinese businesses, public institutions and individuals have so far donated over 270 million yuan (£24m) to the Ethnic Unity Fund, which has been set up by the Xinjiang regional administration to aid those injured or bereaved in the riot.
