Published by AFP, 6 January 2010

BEIJING — Authorities in China’s troubled Xinjiang region will step up identity checks and monitor religious activities in a renewed bid to quash terrorism, separatism and extremism, state media said Wednesday.

The announcement of new government regulations aimed at helping the police and judiciary stamp out the so-called “three forces” in the region comes six months after ethnic violence left nearly 200 people dead.

More than 1,600 people were also injured in the violence that erupted between mainly Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in the regional capital of Urumqi on July 5, according to government figures.

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