3,000 Xinjiang teachers to teach ‘anti-separatism’

NEW DELHI: Nearly 3,000 teachers from China’s restive Xinjiang province trained to teach and spread “anti-separatism” are being dispatched across the country to schools where students from the restive region are enrolled.

The objective behind the two-year program is to promote unity, state media reports said on Wednesday. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China’s largest and home to the Muslim Uyghur minority, has been intermittently rocked by violence in the past few years.