The Turkistan Islamic Party has taken credit for a series of terror attacks in Western China. This is a bad move on their part. The Chinese are rutless and will hunt down their supporters.
A militant Muslim group claimed by video it carried out recent attacks in western China that killed at least three dozen people, a monitoring group said.
The video was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China’s western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said this week. The militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have been trained by Al Qaeda.
Xinjiang is home to largely Muslim ethnic Uighurs who say they have been marginalized by an influx of China’s majority Han to the region. Ethnic riots there two years ago killed at least 197 people.
Security has been raised, but still, dozens were killed in slashings and arson and hit-and-run attacks in the cities of Hotan and Kashgar in July.
The more than 10-minute video released in late August features Turkistan Islamic Party leader Abdul Shakoor Damla, whose face is blotted out, saying those attacks were revenge against the Chinese government.
So Pakistan stabs another ally in the back. When will the US and China realize Pakistan is not to be trusted.
