Chinese Pioneers Being Asked to Relocate -- Once More

In the late 1970s, China dismantled Bingtuans from Tibet in the west to Hainan in the south. But the Bingtuan here remained. Beijing considered it too important a stabilizing force in an often restive region beset by ethnic tensions, said Nicolas Becquelin, a Xinjiang expert at Human Rights in China who is based in Hong Kong.

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