Iman Chairman joins global condemnation of East Turkistan Islamic Movement
Viernes, 1 Noviembre 2013
The ETIM are escalating attacks in China
China calls East Turkistan Islamic Movement terror threat
Yahoo News
01 NOVEMBER, 2013
China said the ethnic Uygur separatist organization East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is the most direct and real threat to the country's security.
"The ETIM has incited, organised and committed terrorist attacks of various forms in China over the years and spread the ideas of violence and terrorism," Xinhua quoted Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying at a routine press briefing.
"It has been the most direct and real threat to our security, and has damaged the security of other countries and regions," she added.
She was responding to a question regarding comments by China's top security chief Meng Jianzhu on Monday's terrorist attack in downtown Beijing.
Meng, chief of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, Thursday briefed the Executive Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Regional Anti-Terrorism Agency on the attack.
He said many countries, including China, were currently under threat amid rising global terrorist activities and China was determined to fight against violence and terrorist crimes.
"The ETIM, based in south, central and west Asia, is a terrorist group identified by the United Nations. It has connections with many other terrorist groups," Hua told journalists.
She said the SCO has prioritised cooperation in fighting the "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
"The terrorist attack in Tian'anmen Square shows that terrorist forces were plotting in all sorts of ways to undermine development of SCO member countries," the spokeswoman pointed out.
She said China was ready to strengthen its efforts in combating terrorism, and safeguarding regional security and stability.
Police Wednesday identified the car crash in Tiananman Square as a terrorist attack, in which three people in the vehicle and two tourists were killed and 38 others were injured.
According to Beijing police, the attack was "carefully planned, organised and premeditated". Five suspects in connection with the attack have been detained.
The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is an Islamist extremist group based in China's Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region. ETIM is an ethnic Uygur separatist organization that aims to create an Islamist state in the Xinjiang province.
Condemning the movement, Ribal Al-Assad, Chairman of the Iman Foundation said:
"I am very concerned about the escalation of violence perpetrated by the ETIM, it is clear that like other terrorist movements, this organisation is driven by nothing more than hatred, intolerance and a perverted ideology.
These extremists pose a very real threat to the rich fabric of Chinese society and we must not allow them to succeed; I commend both the United Nations and the Chinese Government for taking a robust stance against this group.
There is no place for intolerance or extremism in today's world and the international community must continue to work with the Chinese Government to bring these individuals to justice."
