Western support for Xinjiang terrorist groups courts disaster
- Source: Global Times
- [21:45 July 27 2010]
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In the tribal areas, ETIM allied with other international terrorist organizations, while outside of the tribal areas, it relied on the network branches of the WUC.
Therefore, when Norway captured the members of ETIM, the WUC was panic and held an emergency meeting to deny the relationship, though evidence shows that there has been contact between the two for some time.
Though the WUC publicly claims to fight for the East Turkistan independence through nonviolent means, its internal policy has never abandoned armed struggle.
WUC leader Rabiya Kadeer, who fled China in 2005, didn't give up any opportunity to seek refugee status for terrorist suspects, such as violent terrorists who fled from China to Cambodia. Moreover, Kadeer claimed she wanted to go to Palau and visit the released ETIM members at Guantanamo.
The anti-human and anti-social nature of terrorism does not change no matter where in the world it is. The rampancy of current international terrorism is largely due to the double standards of some Western countries.
While the West was using the East Turkistan forces, the East Turkistan forces were, in turn, making use of the West. Later, when the East Turkistan forces planned terrorist attacks against the West, the "tigers" in captivity of the West revealed their true nature.
The author is director and an anti-terrorism expert of the Institute for Security and Arms Control, China Institute of Contemporary International Relations. forum@ globaltimes.com.cn
