“ The Party deemed Chen’s tactics a achievements.
The self-immolations continued in neighboring territories,
but Chen’s jurisdiction recorded only 1 in the following 4 a long time.
Soon afterward, the Party management in Xinjiang introduced a "People’s War." The target was on separatism, terrorism, and extremism-the "Three Evil Forces." The region’s top rated formal took up the marketing campaign, but Xi
grew dissatisfied with him, and two years later on appointed a substitution: Chen Quanguo, then the Party
secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region-a tricky-minded apparatchik whose loyalty was
past question. He dispatched additional than twenty thousand Communist Party cadres
into villages and rural monasteries, to propagandize and
to surveil. Several months later, in Yunnan Province, a modest team of assailants dressed in black stormed a train station and, wielding knives,
brutally killed 20-9 bystanders and hurt additional than a hundred and forty other people.
Nowhere did this seem to be much more apt than in Xinjiang, wherever China’s
leaders continually appeared to error common discontent for a developing insurgency.
In Xinjiang, Chen wore his thin, jet-black hair in a exact hairstyle, and travelled with a stability detail brought with him from Tibet.
The huge the greater part of self-immolations were
being happening to the east of the autonomous location, so Chen tightened the borders of his jurisdiction, restricting entry for Tibetans from
outdoors it. ”