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According to RFA, the 450 Kazakh Muslim students in Habahe and Burqin of Xinjiang, China, had protested against a government order to consume pork last week.



However, most of them have since been taken away by authorities, and RFA reported that the local education ministry has not revealed the whereabouts of the children.



"Over 400 Kazakh students have disappeared (for a week), even their parents don't know where they are. (Reports say) they were detained because they didn't want to eat pork, which apparently violates a Chinese law," Serikjan Bilash, a Kazakh rights activist, told RFA yesterday, 18 December.