onsu

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1. A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “Qirmish Ata Mazar is located in a mountain valley 61 km west of Onsu county town, in Aqsu prefecture.”

   “The Wensu (Onsu) county government in Aqsu district reported taking steps to monitor returnees from pilgrimages in order to “place them in the ‘line of vision’ of the government and Party committee” and “understand” the activities they participated in while abroad.”

   “In December 1994, Abudumijit Muhammatkelim organized a terrorist group with himself as the head, which plotted acts of violence and terror with purchased and homemade weapons and ammunition. He directed his followers to commit a robbery on February 10, 1996, in Onsu County of Xinjiang, which involved the gun killing of two policemen and a herdsman.”

   “Units of the 5th Division of the 2nd Army also marched in from Yanqi, and, on 29 December 1949, arrived in Onsu (Wensu) County in Aksu Prefecture.”

   “On Aug. 20, our hosts sent us to the city of Aksu to visit the Onsu County Vocational Skills Training Center. Here we were supposed to meet the “extremists and terrorists” whom China was “deradicalizing.””