Everything about The East Turkestan Islamic Movement totally explained
The
East Turkestan Islamic Movement (
ETIM,
Turkish:
Doğu Türkistan İslâm Hareketi) is a militant,
Uyghur organization that advocates the creation of an independent,
Islamic state of
East Turkestan in the
Xinjiang region of
China. The founder and leader of the organization was
Hasan Mahsum, who was shot and killed by the
Pakistani Army on
October 2 2003.
ETIM is considered a
terrorist organization by the governments of China,
Kazakhstan,
Pakistan and the
United States, as well as the
United Nations.
The Chinese government blamed ETIM members for several
car bomb attacks in Xinjiang in the 1990s, as well as the death of a Chinese diplomat in
Kyrgyzstan in
2002, but the group has neither admitted nor denied such accusations.
ETIM has had, and may still have links with
Al-Qaeda. In its 2005 report on terrorism, the
US State Department said that the group was "linked to al-Qaida and the international jihadist movement" and that Al-Qaeda provided the group with "training and financial assistance". In January, 2002, the Chinese government released a report in which it showed proof that Hasan Mahsum met with
Osama bin Laden in 1999 and received promises of money, and that bin Laden sent "scores of terrorists" into China. However, ETIM leader Hasan Mahsum denied such organizational ties and alleged China to exaggerate such claims as a means of enlisting support from the United States.
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Approximately two dozen
Uyghurs were held in
extrajudicial detention at the
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base operated by the
United States in
Cuba. On
March 3,
2006, the US
Department of Defense was forced to release the transcripts of detainees who had attended their
Combatant Status Review Tribunals. Most of the Uyghur detainees faced allegations that they were tied to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement,
Al-Qaeda, or the
Taliban. They denied all such ties.
Five of the Uyghur detainees were among the 38 detainees whom the tribunals determined were not "
enemy combatants". The United States government didn't grant the Uyghurs
asylum, but neither would they repatriate them to
China, fearing that they'd be tortured or executed by the Chinese government.
[
On 5 May, 2006 the five Uyghurs were transported to Albania.]
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