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| China places six Uighurs on ‘terror’ list |
| 2012-04-07 |
| BEIJING: China placed six men from the Uighur ethnic minority on a “terror” list, accusing them of involvement in terrorist training camps and of inciting attacks in the country’s restive western Xinjiang region. China’s Ministry of Public Security said the men, whose names identify them as Uighurs, were members of the outlawed East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), blaming one for orchestrating violent attacks in the city of Kashgar last July. Chinese authorities have accused the ETIM, which wants an independent homeland for Xinjiang’s Uighurs, of orchestrating attacks in the region on many occasions. They also gave rare details of what they says are links between the militant groups and neighbouring countries, as it unveiled a list of six wanted suspects. The Ministry of Public Security published the names of the suspects, all apparently ethnic Uighurs, on its website late on Thursday, along with their photographs and an outline of their alleged crimes. All six had spent time in what the ministry called The public security ministry on Thursday said in a statement that it had frozen the funds and assets of the six men, whose whereabouts are not known. China has blamed incidents of violence in Xinjiang, home to the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighur people, on religious separatists who want to establish an independent state of East Turkestan. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 The ETIM is a complex organization, an alliance of several groups whose common denominator is hatred of their Han overlords. (IMO their hatred has a sound basis.) Kind of like Tibet, only Muslim, and more violent, but I repeat myself.) Not all of the Turkic separatists are interested in independence - some prefer the Han welfare, such as it is, but want more autonomy; others want independence, but not an Islamic republic; the largest and strongest group is, however, the Islamofascists. They are the ones with significant external support. If they (ETIM) win against the Chinese (they won't, East Turkestan is where a lot of Chinese oil is found), the non-Islamofascists will be rapidly converted or killed. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-04-07 07:54 |