Word: urumqi
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...some groups have hopes of restoring through violent struggle. "The East Turkestan Islamic Movement and the East Turkestan Liberation Organization are the two most active ones." Shi cited online postings that describe how to make bombs and poisons, the attempted attack on a flight from the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi in March, and unrest in Hetian (or Khotan in the Uighur language) in March. He quoted the leader of the East Turkestan Liberation Organization as saying, "The Beijing Games are our one last golden opportunity to inflict such attacks on China. Even though we know we are weak like...
...incident is the first fatal attack in the region by what are presumably separatist fighters in over ten years. In 1997, three bombs exploded on buses in the provincial capital Urumqi, killing nine and injuring 74. During the 1980s, militants routinely targeted police stations, military bases and similar targets, but such attacks stopped in the 1990s as Chinese control of the region solidified and was extended down to the village level, says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch. Bequelin, who wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the separatist movement in Xinjiang, says the latest attack...
...last November to kidnap foreign journalists, tourists, as well as Olympic athletes during the Games to cause an international sensation and disrupt the Beijing Olympics." This group, said Wu, had also been looking for members who were willing to carry out "jihad" in the capital city of Xinjiang Province, Urumqi, and in Chinese cities in the interior...
...been only a month since Beijing said that it had prevented a terrorist attack on a passenger plane from Urumqi to Beijing, one that was to have been carried out by a 19-year old ethnic Uighur woman "terrorist." The first two months of the year did not pass peacefully either. In January, police destroyed a terrorist camp in Xinjiang, "killing 18 terrorists in a gun battle and seizing 17," according to the official Xinhua News Agency. In February, two members of a "terrorist gang" were shot dead, and 15 arrested during a police raid in Urumqi city...