The Chinese police has been able to prevent an attack on the Beijing Olympic games in August by arresting and killing Islamic terrorists. ‘Materials like guns, homemade bombs, and extremist religious ideological materials that were confiscated during a raid in Urumqi on the 27th of January, have shown that the fifteen persons who were arrested and the two that were killed during this searching prepared an attack on the Olympic games’, said a Chinese official.
A Chinese state newspaper had already mentioned the irruption, writing that suspects wanted to commit bomb attacks at the beginning of February, but nothing was said about an attack on the Olympics.
According to the Chinese official, the group was obeying commands of the separatist movement ETIM, which has its home bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The United Nations and the United States consider the ETIM as a terror organisation.
Chinese forces have been battling the low-intensity separatist movement ETIM among Xinjiang's Uighurs for years. The Uighurs are Turkic Muslim people culturally and ethnically differing from China's Han majority. According to Chinese officials, the ETIM is the most important terror threat for China, although the group is not believed to have more than a few dozen members. By way of precaution, China has intensified the number of anti-terror operations.
A Chinese state newspaper had already mentioned the irruption, writing that suspects wanted to commit bomb attacks at the beginning of February, but nothing was said about an attack on the Olympics.
According to the Chinese official, the group was obeying commands of the separatist movement ETIM, which has its home bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The United Nations and the United States consider the ETIM as a terror organisation.
Chinese forces have been battling the low-intensity separatist movement ETIM among Xinjiang's Uighurs for years. The Uighurs are Turkic Muslim people culturally and ethnically differing from China's Han majority. According to Chinese officials, the ETIM is the most important terror threat for China, although the group is not believed to have more than a few dozen members. By way of precaution, China has intensified the number of anti-terror operations.
By Ruth Knaepkens
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