The Research On The Prevention And Control Of Violent Crimes And Terrorist Attacks In The Xinjiang Region

In recent years, there is a growing number of terrorist acts in Xinjiang Province and the locations of the crimes are stretching towards East China. Combining all those atrocities, we can find that the practices are terribly cruel and destructive. In addition to causing the unaccountable loss of public and private properties, the terrorist acts also result in a large number of casualties among innocent people and pose extraordinary threats to the national security and public safety. In this regard, the Communist Party of China and the authority attach great importance to the issue of social security in Xinjiang region and make anti-terrorism a priority in maintain national security. To promote stability and unity of China, especially in Xinjiang region, international anti-terrorism has been referred to and the policy of anti-terrorism is being forged in political, legal, economic and cultural perspective.The reason why Xinjiang Province has become the hot spot of terrorist acts is complex. From macro perspectives, the "double Pan" ideologies entrenched in Xinjiang since ancient times, and Xinjiang region itself has a destabilizing presence. The Xinjiang region has been developing under its unique Islamic culture on China’s border, and its geographical conditions also endowed its culture with a certain kind of extroversion. The uneven economic development in the region is evident, prompting people in Xinjiang region to be born with a strong sense of ethnic identity and relatively weak national identity. From the micro level, since the economic development is relatively backward, local families are under great pressure financially. In this case, families usually hold doubtful attitudes towards the value of education and people in Xinjiang region, especially women, are mostly not highly educated. Coupled with the absence of school’s supervision on illegal organization and weakening community function, some younger or less educated people are being unsupervised, which facilitates the spread of terrorist organizations’ extremist ideas.Due to above reasons, Xinjiang region has been turbulent since the PRC was founded and terrorism has never died out. Objectively, the crime is ruthless and the targets and locations of the crimes are uncertain. Because of Xinjiang’s unique geographical location and the coexistence of religious extremist ideology, ethnic separatist ideology and terrorist ideology, the motivation of the crime is complex and the acts are mostly premeditated. With the authority cracking down on terrorism, terrorist organizations have been reducing in number but the crimes are showing an upward trend, which is partly because of the terrorist organization hiding behind the scenes instead. Besides, other younger or less educated people, especially women, are more easily deluded by extremist ideology.In order to solve the problem, the Chinese government are not only intent on international cooperation against terrorism, but also increasing efforts to combat violent crime through revising "Penal Code" and "Code of Criminal Procedure". Nevertheless, the violent crimes in recent years are still frequent, and even crime locations have extended from Xinjiang region towards mainland cities, causing great panics across the country. In this regard, the public security department, Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Supreme Court commonly advocate severe crackdown on terrorism. The Xinjiang region even launched one-year-long anti-terrorism special operations and the result is rewarding.Compared with foreign countries’ practices on anti-terrorism, China’s current strategy of dealing with the reality of crime has yet to be further improved. Counter-terrorism legislation should not be confined to an introduction of "anti-terrorism law", but also based on the reasons of the violence.Moreover, it is necessary to increase investment of resources to address issues like regional economic imbalances, cultural conflicts, poor education and weakening communities’ function and then virtually eliminate the source of violent crimes. Last but not least, China should change its one-sided concept of purely blowing and actively develop violence prevention mechanisms, which would effectively reduce the damages caused by the storm of crime and achieve the ultimate goal.