Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS November 14, 1997

11/12/97, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

[ETIC, 11/12/97] Recently, the Chinese authorities began to reenforce their political campaign called "Strike hard" in Kashgar and surrounding areas. Under a pretext of cleaning the society from "splittists", about 300 Uyghur houses were searched by police and the security service. The situation in Kashgar is reported very tense because of these activities. The authorities are afraid of possible disturbances in the city which was a capital of Islamic Republic of

Eastern Turkistan established in Kashgar on November 12, 1933. [Kiyan]