JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his Hui people’s oppression under China’s communist founder Mao Zedong. The 39-year-old poet was born after the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when the Hui — China’s second-largest Muslim ethnic group — were among the masses tormented by the Red Guard. Cui fears both that history may be repeating itself and for his own safety as he tries to hold the ruling Communist Party accountable. More recently, authorities in nearby Gansu province ordered closed a school that taught Arabic, the language of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts. In late November, the Communist Party-run Global Times reported that Ningxia had signed an anti-terrorism cooperation agreement with Xinjiang during a visit by Ningxia Communist Party head Zhang Yunsheng.

Source: Egypt Independent December 28, 2018 14:03 UTC