China offers amnesty to militants in restive Xinjiang
May 25, 2014  12:32
Stepping up its crackdown against radical separatists in the troubled Muslim-dominated Xinjiang province, China has offered an amnesty to militants saying they would face lenient punishment if they surrender. 

Legal, procuratorate and public security authorities in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued a joint statement last night calling for law-breakers who are involved in terrorist activities to surrender to get lenient punishments, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. 

The statement forbids people to organise, lead or join any terrorist groups. It bans people from implementing or instigating terrorist violence. 

It also prohibits people from directly or indirectly funding, supporting or harbouring terrorist activities, terrorist organizations and terrorists. 

Those who turn themselves in and make major meritorious performances will be given minor punishment or exempted from punishment, it said. 

The new initiative follows the bloodiest terror attack in years at a busy market in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province, on Thursday that left 43 people dead. 
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