SOCIETY

Separatist Group

Authorities in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region revealed on April 6 that they had busted a separatist criminal group in the educational sector.

The group’s leader was Sattar Sawut, former Director of the Xinjiang education department and former head of the region’s leading group on basic-education curriculum reform. They incorporated ethnic separatism, violence, terrorism, and religious extremism content into minority-language textbooks. These books had been in use for 13 years. It had grave consequences, Wang Langtao, Vice President of the Xinjiang regional higher people’s court, said at a press conference on