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Joint efforts to combat terrorism moves ahead
The Chinese Ministry of Public Security on Friday reiterated China's firm support for international co-operation in combating terrorism and its hope of gaining more assistance from other countries for its anti-terror endeavour. A minsitry spokesperson said the publicizing of a list of the first identified "East Turkistan" terrorist organizations and 11 terrorists by the ministry on December 15, 2003 has drawn active responses from the international community. "They hope to further promote cooperation with China in cracking down on terrorism," said the spokesperson, who asked his name not be used. Pakistan's information ministry gave information that Hasan Mahsum, head of the listed terrorist group "the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement" (ETIM), was already shot dead by Pakistani troops on October 2 last year in a joint anti-terror raid along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. When confirming the death last December, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao accused Hasan Mahsum of plotting a series of violent terrorist activities in recent years, including robbery and murder in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and violent murders in Xinjiang's Hotan region, which had caused heavy losses of lives and property. "His death is a tremendous contribution to the war on terror not only for China but for the whole world," said the MPS spokesperson. However, the spokesperson also revealed that ETIM had not been fully demolished though it suffered a telling blow from the death of its leader. He acknowledged that "its members have intensified activities and are actively plotting revenge for a comeback. We should still remain highly vigilant." While continuing to keep an eye on what ETIM and other terrorist groups are up to, China will seek additional cooperation worldwide and resort to varied measures to crack down on any form of terrorism, he underlined. The publicized "East Turkistan" terrorist organizations are: the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the East Turkistan Liberation Organization (ETLO), the World Uygur Youth Congress ( WUYC) and the East Turkistan Information Centre (ETIC). The 11 identified "East Turkistan" terrorists are: Hasan Mahsum, Muhanmetemin Hazret, Dolqun Isa, Abudujelili Kalakash, Abudukadir Yapuquan, Abudumijit Muhammatkelim, Abudula Kariaji, Abulimit Turxun, Hudaberdi Haxerbik, Yasen Muhammat, and Atahan Abuduhani. The ETIM was put on the list of global terrorist organizations by the United Nations on September 11, 2002, and three identified terrorists were already subjects of Interpol red notices. Chinese police had requested Interpol issue red notices on others. The Ministry of Public Security has called on authorities in all countries to disband the four organizations, to ban their activities, support, financing and protection of these organizations and to freeze their assets. It is also hoped that they will investigate the whereabouts of the identified terrorists and extradite them to China. Evidence points to terrorist groups, members The Ministry of Public Security has called on authorities in all countries to disband the four organizations, to ban their activities, support, financing and protection of these organizations and to freeze their assets. It is also hoped that they will investigate the whereabouts of the identified terrorists and extradite them to China. The ministry on Friday also refuted the defence of the "Eastern Turkistan" terrorists and disclosed more detailed evidence of their terrorist activities. "We have ample, concrete evidence identifying these terrorist organizations and their members," said an official with the Counter-Terrorism Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. The official noted that from February 2001 to September 2002, the president of the East Turkistan Information Centre (ETIC) Abudujelili Kalakash trained Abudumijit Enas, who was in Hotan of Xinjiang, on how to carry out terrorist activities. Abudumijit Enas confessed that he had successively received a scanner, video camera and more than 30,000 yuan (US$3,625) of funds from Abudujelili Kalakash and the mandate to gather information, plot and carry out violent terrorist activities in China, said the official. In March 2003, ETIC President Abudujelili Kalakash directed a violent terrorist in China named Silam Eshan to do field survey along the railway between Lanzhou of Gansu province and Hami of Xinjiang in preparation for blowing up the railway. Silam Eshan confessed that during his trips to China's Hebei, Anhui and Shaanxi provinces and the national capital of Beijing, he frequently received orders from Abudujelili Kalakash to spread leaflets that preached "Jihad," to take delivery of formulas and theories on making explosives and poison sent by overseas violent terrorist Yasen Turid, and to conduct a field survey of the Lanzhou-Hami Railway together with other violent terrorists in China Adil, Muhtar Memet, Abudurexit Yisak and Kdir Mamut, and to map out explosion schemes, the official said. Since its founding, the official said, the World Uygur Youth Congress (WUYC) had all along been actively pursuing subversive activities, conspiring to split the country with various means, inciting, organizing, abetting and supporting violent terrorist activities and financing terrorists and terrorist organizations. These activities had constituted a grave threat to China's state security and conformed to China's standards in identifying terrorist organizations, he said. In October 2000, WUYC leader Dolqun Isa directed Yulwas Tulak, Eli Mutalif and other runaway terrorists to establish a training base in Nepal. In December 2001, these terrorists were captured by Nepalese police on the charge of illegal possession of guns. Dolqun Isa then sent Abudueni Rehmen to Nepal carrying a huge sum of money, bailed out the terrorists and sent them to a terrorist camp in South Asia to receive training, the official said. In July 2002, Dolqun Isa tried many ways to prevent the repatriation to China of Rahmutulla Islayil and Arken Yakuf, who murdered Wang Jianping, a diplomat of the Chinese Embassy in Kirghizstan, the official said. He said that since May 2003, Dolqun Isa and another die-hard member of this organization, Abuduxukur, have successively provided financial support for more than 10 backbone members of a terrorist group that illegally made explosives, including Tayir Nasir, Ruz Memet, and Rusuf Memet. From May to August in 2003, Dolqun Isa and current WUYC chairman Memet Tuhut actively provided financial aid for Miryumili Memet, an "Eastern Turkistan" terrorist that had fled to Thailand, and later sought legal channels for him to flee Thailand. |
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