“East Turkistan” Terrorist Forces Cannot Get Away with Impunity

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A report released by the PRC in January of 2002 describing the ’terrorist threat’ China was facing and requesting assistance in combating this threat.

• The first half tried to refute Uyghur history and link them to international terrorism.
• The second half declared that Eastern Turkistan terrorist forces were responsible for 200 terrorist incidents from 1990 to 2001. Then it provides a list of violent events.
  • Few of them qualify as ’terrorism’ because the vast majority did not target civilians or weren’t premeditated political violence.
  • Only ’terrorist’ acts mentioned are 5 series of explosions.
    • Majority of them were never reported until the document’s release.
    • Only the Urumqi bus bombings (1997) and Urumqi bus bombings (1992) were reported on.
      • But neither of these bombings were ever claimed by an organization.