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China stopped in 2008 close to 1300 people of Muslim faith for terrorism, religious extremism or of other loads bound to the national security in the province to the Muslim majority of Xinjiang, a region of the west of China.

This vast desert area edging the central Asia is the home of more than eight millions of Uighurs, an ethnic minority of Muslim complicates confession, of which some among them extolled a political autonomy and more of religious liberty, some among them coming closer however of Muslim fundamentalist movements.

According to the Chinese government, these arrests took place last year for "the maintenance of the social stability" a priority whereas Peking welcomed the Olympic games of 2008 in the month of August.

Many unrests had exploded in the Xinjiang approaching the OJ. According to the government, the unrest had been fomented extensively by the Muslim Uighur separatists.

1295 people have been stopped for setting in danger the security of the state in the first 11 months of 2008, and 1154 have been positively charged and had a suit or an administrative sanction.

The judicial authorities ordered to "hit strong on the strong points of terrorism: the religious separatism and extremism that put in danger the security of the state."

Last month, two Islamic nominees by the Chinese justice like "terrorists" have been condemned to death for an attack against the police complicates, four days before Olympics and had for that goal to sabotage the Games.

The two men have been recognized guilty of murder after this attack in the Xinjiang that had provoked the death of 17 policemen and 15 other wounded had.

The attack of August 4 had been the worse of the wave agitation that had touched the Xinjiang before and during the Olympic games.