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	Terrorism - In the Spotlight: East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
		ETIM is the most militant of the various groups in the Xinjiang region that demand separation from China and the creation of an independent state called East Turkestan.
		China has long viewed the ETIM and similar groups as a threat to its territorial integrity, and after the attacks on America on Sept. 11, 2001, executed a harsh crackdown on the region by increasing its military presence, detaining suspected members, and limiting religious rights.
		East Turkestan maintained a measure of independence until the early 1950s, when Mao's victorious rebel armies turned to the peripheries and began securing Chinese borders, capturing Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet and East Turkestan.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/etim.cfm (1006 words)

	Asia Times: Beijing links separatists to bin Laden
		But the "East Turkistan" forces, not to be reconciled to their failure and in defiance of the will of the people of all ethnic groups, have been on the lookout for every opportunity to conduct splittist and sabotage activities with the backing of international anti-China forces.
		In the 1990s, under the influence of extremism, separatism and international terrorism, part of the "East Turkistan" forces inside and outside Chinese territory turned to splittist and sabotage activities with terrorist violence as the main means, even brazenly declaring that terrorist violence is the only way to achieve their aims.
		The "East Turkistan" terrorist organization plotted the assassination of Arunhan Aji, executive committee member of the Islamic Association of China, vice-chairman of the CPPCC Xinjiang Regional Committee and chairman of the Kashi Islamic Association, on May 12, 1996.
	www.atimes.com /china/DA23Ad02.html (4763 words)

	Terrorism: Q & A \| East Turkestan Islamic Movement (China, separatists)
		ETIM leader Hahsan Mahsum, one of China’s most-wanted men, has denied any ties between his group and al-Qaeda.
		In May 2002, two ETIM members were deported to China from Kyrgyzstan for allegedly plotting to attack the U.S. embassy in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, as well as other U.S. interests abroad.
		Human rights groups are concerned that the U.S. characterization of the ETIM as a terrorist group has given the Chinese a free hand to repress Uighurs.
	www.terrorismanswers.org /groups/etim.html (736 words)

	East Turkestan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After this invasion, Eastern Turkestan was given the name Xinjiang which means "new territory" or "New Dominion" and in 1884 it was annexed into the territory of the Manchu empire.
		Since East Turkestan is under Chinese control, the Uyghurs are discriminated by the Chinese Administration in all walks of life.
		East Turkestan continues to be a region where the Uyghurs are waging a life and death struggle for survival.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=21 (2449 words)

	printarticle. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement had been put on a list, which means sanctions, including a ban on financial contributions and seizure of assets, will be applied.
		China has been asking foreign governments to support its crackdown against the long-simmering separatist movement among the ethnic Uighur majority of Xinjiang, a strategically important territory in western China with rich oil and gas deposits.
		Beijing said the East Turkestan movement had been active since the early 1990s, carrying out bombings and assassinations with the objective of forming a breakaway state.
	www.theage.com.au /cgi-bin/common/printArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/08/27/1030053058600.html (411 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kong said ETIM, which had other names, such as the "East Turkestan Islamic Party of Allah" or the "East Turkestan Islamic Party", was the most dangerous among all East Turkestan terrorist forces.
		ETIM aimed to split the country through terrorist activities and establish the so-called "East Turkestan Islamic State" in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, he said.
		ETIM had set up terrorist training bases outside Chinese territory and dispatched terrorists to sneak into China for planning, instructing and conducting terrorist activities, he said.
	www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /oasien/china/service/bbc/020913.txt (15105 words)

	Outside View: China's Muslims - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While Beijing seeks to insulate the Uighurs from the larger Islamic world and stem the flow of Islamic ideology into the region, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) has been striving for years for the creation of an independent country for the Uighurs.
		This move appears to be a small concession by the United States to reward the Chinese government for its support of the anti-terrorist war and for issuing new export controls on missile technology.
		Thus Islamic China emerges as an important indicator of religious, cultural, and political developments in a still dimly seen future.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040507-043613-5984r.htm (933 words)

	Xinjiang: An Emerging Narco-Islamist Corridor?
		However, the violence acquired a decidedly more "Islamic" component during the 1980s and 1990s, due in part to the influence of the Afghan jihad but also the Islamic reawakening which swept across Central Asia.
		The birthplace of the short-lived Islamic state of Turkestan founded by a religious scholar named Sabit Damolla in 1933, Kashgar is the cultural and religious center of Xinjiang as well as the stronghold of the religious component in the Uighur insurgency.
		As the birthplace of the short-lived independent republic of Eastern Turkestan proclaimed in 1944, it has maintained a tradition of ethnically-based opposition (referred to as Pan-Turkism in China) to the Chinese presence.
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369633&printthis=1 (1350 words)

	Bush's pay-off to China over Iraq: Uighur group declared "terrorist" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On September 12, the United Nations accepted a joint recommendation by the governments of the United States, China, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan that the Chinese-based East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) be declared a terrorist organisation.
		The ETIM is one of a number of Islamic separatist movements operating among the Turkic-speaking and Muslim Uighur population of Xinjiang, the oil-rich province of northwest China bordering Central Asia.
		Among the separatists, Xinjiang is referred to as East Turkestan.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/sep2002/uigh-s20.shtml (979 words)

	Asia Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, the political implication of this decision is disastrous to the Uighur freedom movement worldwide and to the ever-deteriorating human-rights situation in East Turkestan.
		China, which has been aggressively demonizing and discrediting the East Turkestan freedom movement since September 11, now has a free hand to strike a harder blow against the Uighur population in the country's west in the name of fighting against "East Turkestan terrorist forces".
		The US decision to include ETIM on its list of foreign terrorist organizations came as a shock to the Uighur people in East Turkestan and the Uighur diaspora, because the United States had earlier consistently rejected China's claim that the East Turkestan organizations were "terrorist" groups.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/DI05Ad03.html (1950 words)

	CNN.com - China links separatists to bin Laden - January 21, 2002
		"The 'East Turkestan' terrorist organization based in South Asia has the unstinting support of Osama bin Laden and is an important part of his terrorist forces," said the report by China's cabinet, the State Council.
		According to the document, entitled "East Turkestan Terrorist Forces Cannot Get Away with Impunity", bin Laden met the leader of one group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, in early 1999.
		The report said dozens of East Turkestan Islamic Movement members trained at bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan had slipped into Xinjiang and other unspecified Chinese provinces, setting up secret terrorist cells and giving technical training in explosives to 150 militants.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/21/gen.china.xinjaing (586 words)

	CNN.com - China smashes terror bases - September 13, 2002
		"The goal of the ETIM is to use terrorist activities to split up China and to build up a so-called East Turkestan Islamic state in China's Xinjiang," Kong said.
		ETIM guerrillas are also active in Kyrgyzstan, and Washington pointed out last month that ETIM terrorists had tried to target the U.S. embassy in that country.
		Chinese diplomats sources that it was partly due to the joint lobbying of China, the U.S., Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan that the UN decided to label the ETIM a terrorist organization.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/13/china.turkestan (388 words)

	China: From Brutal Oppressor to Terrorist Victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		subjected the Islamic clergy to intensive scrutiny and “political education” campaigns which are reminiscent of those held during the Cultural Revolution [and] aim both to force participants to follow closely the party’s dictates and to identify potential opponents and dissenters.
		Two groups in particular are cause for concern: the East Turkestan Islamic Party (ETIP) and the East Turkestan Liberation Organization (or Sharki Turkestan Azatlik Tashkilati, known by the acronym SHAT).
		After the designation of ETIM as terrorists sparked skepticism far and wide, the U.S. embassy in Beijing announced that ETIM was planning attacks on the U.S. embassy in Bishek, Kirghiz.
	www.fff.org /freedom/fd0312c.asp (1543 words)

	Uighur militants Committee for Eastern Turkistan
		In 1949 the Nationalist Chinese were defeated by the Chinese communists and Eastern Turkestan fell under Chinese communist rule.
		Following the death of the exile East Turkestan leader Isa Yusuf Alptekin, who advocated non-violence and was called the Turkic Dalai Lama, no-one has had the authority to prevent militant resistance against Chinese rule in Xinjiang.
		Branded as "Xinjiang's Hamas," the Home of East Turkestan Youth is a radical group committed to achieving the goal of independence through the use of armed force.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/uighur.htm (1020 words)

	Beijing praises US ban on Islamic 'terror' group - smh.com.au
		The US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, confirmed that several days ago the East Turkestan Islamic Movement was added to a list that applies sanctions, including a ban on financial contributions and the seizure of assets.
		China has been asking foreign governments to support its crackdown against the separatist movement - active since the early 1990s - among the ethnic Uighur majority of Xinjiang, a strategically important territory on its western border with rich oil and gas deposits.
		Beijing said the East Turkestan movement had been active since the early 1990s, carrying out bombings, assassinations, acts of arson, poisonings and assaults with the objective of forming a breakaway state.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/27/1030053060152.html (537 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Beijing is exploiting to the utmost Washington's and the UN's recent decisions to classify the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a terrorist organization.
		They have lamented the fact that the decision by the U.S. and UN to label ETIM a terrorist outfit could afford Beijing much-needed legitimacy in its campaign to snuff out the entire pro-independence and dissident movement in the XAR--and to Sinicize the region by promoting Chinese culture and encouraging Han Chinese to migrate to Xinjiang.
		For many analysts, what is usually known as the underground Uighur pro-independence movement consists of a plethora of organizations, the majority of which do not espouse violence.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=4670 (1289 words)

	U.S. Labeling of Group in China as Terrorist Is Criticized (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The well-publicized American declarations on the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, one of several small, militant groups seeking independence for Uighur Muslims in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, has also caused dismay and anger among Uighur exiles.
		In a report on "East Turkestan Terrorist Forces" issued on Jan. 21, China's State Council said that from 1990 to 2001, assorted separatist groups "were responsible for over 200 terrorist incidents in Xinjiang," resulting in the deaths of 162 people.
		None of the skeptics denies that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement exists, or that at least some of its members may have been drawn into the "holy war" spirit of Central Asia before Sept. 11.
	www.theturkishtimes.com /archive/02/09_15/f_china.htm (824 words)

	Worldandnation: China links its Muslim separatists, bin Laden
		The report was the most explicit Chinese claim yet linking bin Laden and separatists in the northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkestan.
		The Chinese report contended that separatist violence in Xinjiang was part of an international Muslim extremist plot to overthrow Chinese rule and install a theocratic "Islam state" in the region.
		OKLAHOMA CITY -- One of the Sept. 11 hijackers got a speeding ticket in Oklahoma last spring, and it may be used as evidence against Zacarias Moussaoui, the former Oklahoma resident arrested shortly before the attacks.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/01/22/news_pf/Worldandnation/China_links_its_Musli.shtml (577 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / China's wanted Islamic separatist killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of China's most wanted men, the leader of an Islamic group accused of separatist violence in the country's restive northwest, was killed in a joint U.S.-Pakistani operation this month, state media reported Tuesday.
		BEIJING -- One of China's most wanted men, the leader of an Islamic group accused of separatist violence in the country's restive northwest, was killed in a joint U.S.-Pakistani operation this month, state media reported Tuesday.
		It didn't say when or where Mahsum was killed, but said he fled with 11 other ETIM members into the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2003/12/23/chinas_wanted_islamic_separatist_killed?mode=PF (325 words)

	Chinese dissidents branded as terrorists - www.phayul.com
		Members of this Muslim Uighur group, who call themselves the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, have been fighting the central government for a decade to establish an independent homeland.
		Last month, a leading Chinese democracy activist was convicted by a Chinese court of espionage and "organizing and leading a terrorist group," the official Xinhua News Agency reported, at one of the first major political trials held under a new party leadership.
		Bingzhang Wang, 55, the founder of the Free China Movement, was sentenced to life in prison after a closed one-day trial by a court in Shenzhen, a city near Hong Kong.
	www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=3857&t=1 (952 words)

	Turkmenistan: A Central Asian State without Religious Extremism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Central Asia is the target of not only terrorist groups such as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), but also of radical religious groups like the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which are also intensifying their clandestine activities in the region.
		This pattern is headed by an Islamic crescent and 5 stars representing the five ‘velayats’ or provinces of the country.
		While the unemployed youth of the Farghana valley are the natural targets of organisations like the Hizb-ut-Tahrir and terrorist groups like the ETIM and the IMU, the forced conscription in Turkmenistan keeps the youth engaged every year in a range of activities like road construction and maintenance, cotton harvesting and providing emergency services.
	www.observerindia.com /analysis/A275.htm (1646 words)

	Harvard International Review: The Defense of Xinjiang
		This exercise was supposedly directed against the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which is classified as a terrorist organization by the United Nations.
		According to Beijing, ETIM was behind numerous terrorist activities in Xinjiang, instigating 166 violent incidents and maintaining 44 strongholds and arsenals that have been smashed by PRC authorities over the past year.
		Despite the current attention to Islamic terrorists and Iraq, some analysts in US military and security establishments still believe that China will remain its long-term competitor for global power and influence.
	www.harvardir.org /articles?id=1124&page=3 (508 words)

	twf_log0209: NYTimes.com Article: U.S. Labeling of Group in Chi
		Turkestan Islamic Movement, one of several small, militant
		East Turkestan Islamic Movement as a threat, the group's
		Islamic Movement gathered around a religious school in
	listproc.ucdavis.edu /archives/twf/log0209/0025.html (1196 words)

	RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - Uzbek extremists threaten the U.S.
		The events of the 1990s, related to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of new independent states, were accompanied in Central Asia not only by a sharp rise of national self-consciousness, but also by a fast development of the religious factor.
		It was then that such religious groups and movements as Akromiya (named after its founder mullah Akrom), Adolat (Justice), Islam lashkarlari (Warriors of Islam), Tabliqh (Muslim Mission), Tovba (Repentance), and Nur (Ray of Light) emerged in Uzbekistan.
		The IMU and the Hizb-ul-Tahrir never attempted to hide their ultimate goal - the creation of the Islamic Caliphate in the region, contrary to the Tajik Islamic opposition, which never spread its interests beyond the borders of the republic.
	en.rian.ru /analysis/20050607/40486108.html (678 words)

	China in Bed with Russia - Global Affairs Forum, Politics, Law, Science, Health
		In fact, these are cells of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement that operates in the XUAR (the UN put it on the list of terrorist organizations).
		That movement closely cooperated with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) to the point that they had common training camps in Afghanistan.
		Washington views the East Turkestan and IMU Islamic extremists as possible terrorists, but is not in a hurry to admit the elements of IMU in Uzbekistan's events.
	www.globalaffairs.org /forum/showthread.php?t=34328 (530 words)

	CitizensArrest.com, where one person can make a difference! - Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Egyptian Islamic Jihad (Egypt, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Egyptian Islamic Jihad, with its close ties to the wider al-Qaeda network, is suspected of direct involvement in the September 11 attacks.
		Both Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Jamaat al-Islamiyya are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the United States, making it illegal for anyone in the United States to give them funds or material support and forcing U.S. financial institutions to block funds held by these groups or their agents.
		At present, no. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a 70-year-old social and political movement that has served as a template for other Islamist movements in Egypt and across the Arab and Muslim world.
	www.citizensarrest.com /groups/jamaat2.html (805 words)

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