Chinese students whose political qualifications are 'not up to par' must not graduate, according to Communist party newspaper
University students in Xinjiang will not graduate unless their political views are approved, a university official has said, as the country wages what school administrators called an ideological war against separatism.
Xinjiang is home to the Muslim Uighur ethnic group, many of whom resent controls imposed by Beijing and an inflow of Han Chinese migrants. Some Uighur groups are campaigning for an independent homeland.
University officials from Xinjiang said their institutions were a frontline in a "life and death struggle" for the people's hearts and a main front in the battle against separatism, the ruling Communist party's official newspaper in the region, the Xinjiang Daily, reported on Tuesday.
"Students whose political qualifications are not up to par must absolutely not graduate, even if their professional course work is excellent," said Xu Yuanzhi, the party secretary at Kashgar Teachers College in southern Xinjiang, which has been a centre of ethnic unrest.
It is unclear if such a policy has been officially implemented throughout the region.
"Ideology is a battlefield without gun smoke," said the Xinjiang Normal University's president, Weili Balati.
"As university leaders we have the responsibility to do more to help students and teachers properly understand and treat religion, ethnicity and culture and help them distinguish between right and wrong."
Beijing blames the East Turkestan Islamic movement for an attack on 28 October when a vehicle ploughed through crowds on Tiananmen Square in Beijing and burst into flames, killing three people in the car and two bystanders.
An Islamist militant group released a speech claiming responsibility but Uighur exiles, rights groups and some experts have cast doubt on the official accounts from Beijing.
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