2007 Xinjiang raid

Chinese military operation during the Xinjiang conflict Location of Akto within Xinjiang (China).png the Xinjiang conflict Location of Akto County in Xinjiang, China Xinjiang raid January 5, 2007 Xinjiang, People's Republic of China Chinese victory 20px People's Republic of China People's Armed Police 20px East Turkestan Islamic Movement Ba Yan Unknown 1 killed 1 wounded 18 killed 17 captured On January 5, 2007, Chinese paramilitary police raided a suspected East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) training camp in Akto County in the Pamir plateau. A spokesperson for the Xinjiang Public Security Department said that 18 terror suspects were killed and 17 captured. Those captured were either sentenced to death or life imprisonment.Wayne Martin 2007 Five Lessons from China's War on Terror https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A183044531/PPWT Joint Force Quarterly 47 42 24 February 2023 The raid also resulted in the death of one Chinese paramilitary officer, Huang Qiang, age 21, and the injury of another officer. Authorities confiscated hand grenades, guns, and makeshift explosives from the site.http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=38523 UN urged to probe killing of Chinese Muslims https://web.archive.org/web/20080220210228/http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=38523 January 11, 2007 February 20, 2008 The News deadhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6241073.stm China 'anti-terror' raid kills 18 BBC News 8 January 2007 ETIM is classified by the United Nations as a terrorist organization.https://jamestown.org/program/al-qaeda-and-islamic-state-reinvigorating-east-turkistan-jihad/ Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reinvigorating East Turkistan Jihad Roul Animesh May 17, 2019 Jamestown en-US 2019-08-21China's Spatial (Dis)integration: Political Economy of the Interethnic Unrest in Xinjiang Guo Rongxing 2015 Chandos Publishing 9780081003879 Waltham, MA 46 In reaction, many exiled Uyghur leaders quickly questioned the motives behind the raid. Rebiya Kadeer, a Uyghur human rights activist, called for an independent UN investigation into the raid, while Alim Seytoff, executive chairman of the World Uighur Congress, claimed the Chinese government has yet to produce evidence to substantiate the camp's connections to terrorism. In response, Zhao Yongchen, vice head of the Xinjiang counterterrorism forces, reiterated the reality of the camp's terrorist threat.http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/01/10/2003344141 China crushes Xinjiang 'terror camp' Taipei Times January 10, 2007http://blogs.lavanguardia.com/pekin-poch/un-incidente-en-el-pamir Un incidente en el Pamir La Vanguardia Rafael Poch June 20, 2007 es See also East Turkestan independence movement East Turkestan Liberation Organization 2008 Uyghur unrest Politics of the People's Republic of China References Xinjiang Category:Terrorism in China Category:2007 in China Category:Xinjiang conflict