Qiao Long reports today (translation by Chen Ping):
Police of Xinjiang’s Yining City recently conducted two raids in Alamutuya Village of Yengiyer Township, and found locations where the Uyghurs were allegedly hiding their guns. Seven people were detained.
An employee at the Village Committee in Alamutuya: The detained people belong to the fifth production brigade.
RFA: How many people were detained?
Villager: One from each family.
RFA: Han Chinese or Uyghur?
Villager: Uyghur.
RFA: When they were arrested?
Villager: About seven or eight days ago.
The man suggested RFA call the fifth production brigade. The RFA reporter made the phone call and a man with a heavy Uyghur accent in the office of the fifth production brigade answered the phone.
RFA: I heard that a terror group was destroyed. How many people were detained?
Uyghur man: Seven in the southern part of the town, and eight from the northern part…
RFA: 15 in total?
Uyghur man: Um.
RFA: How many guns were confiscated?
Uyghur man: There were guns.
RFA: About 10 guns?
Uyghur man: Um.
RFA: Any explosives?
Uyghur man: Explosives? I don’t know…Police cracked a big case.
RFA: Who got the credit?
Uyghur man: The head of our production brigade and other cadres in our brigade.
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