Hasan Makhsum s camp was barely functional

Last updated Nov 20, 2022

It was alleged that ETIP was responsible for many terrorist actions in Xinjiang, but that was impossible because their camp in Afghanistan was barely functional, they didn’t even have any weapons except for one kalashnikov.

• There was barely any training.

  Q: What other activities were going on at the camp?

  A: There was no typical training, whoever volunteered, once in a while people would run or exercise. I would carry wood, water came from far away, bring stone to build houses.¹

• It was just a small community.

  It was a little Uighur community where Uighurs went. I do not know what you mean by the place called camp.”²

  a.4. The detainee attended a Uighur training camp in Afghanistan. Detainee: I didn’t attend the training camp. If they call that the training camp, I wasn’t in the training camp. I stayed in the place where the Uighur people stayed.³

• Yusef Abbas said there was only one Kalashnikov.

  Q. When you were training, you didn’t have enough weapons there? A. There was only one Kalashnikov.