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BEIJING: Terrorism poses the biggest threat to the success of next
year’s Beijing Olympics, China’s police chief said in comments
published Tuesday.
“Although the general security
situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the
challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism,” the China
Daily quoted Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang as saying.
“Terrorism, in particular,
poses the biggest threat.”
Zhou was speaking on Monday at an
international conference on security cooperation for the Olympics.
Vice Minister of Public Security
Liu Jing told the meeting that some ethnic minority groups in the
region and “international terrorist and extremist groups” might
launch attacks at the event.
The report did not elaborate on
who might target the Olympics, but China has previously blamed some
Muslim Uighurs in the nation’s far western region of Xinjiang for
terrorist activities.
In the story on terrorism, the
China Daily also highlighted comments from Liu that appeared to
target human-rights groups and other critics of China who have
sought to use the Olympics to highlight their concerns.
--AFP
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