Morning Star.png China Happy With ETIM Terror Group Designation The Morning Star, London, 23 July 2016 China welcomed Britain's decision to recognise a group advocating independence for the far-western region of Xinjiang as a terrorist organisation yesterday. The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) based in Pakistan, has committed hundreds of terrorist attacks in an attempt to establish an independent state for the Turkic Muslim Uigher people of Xingjiang. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said: "We are willing to work with relevant parties including the UK to enhance pragmatic cooperation on anti-terrorism." The British Home Office listed ETIM as a terrorist group earlier this week on the basis that it had committed attacks against China and that it is believed to have an active role in the Syrian conflict. It stated: "TIP [ETIM] is an Islamic terrorist and separatist organisation founded in 1989 by Uighur militants in western China." ETIM claims that China marginalises the Uighur people economically and has been accused of reducing the Uighur majority by encouraging Han Chinese to move to the region. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0ab7-China-happy-with-Etim-terror-grou p-designation#.V5MAG_l9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0ab7-China-happy-with-Etim-terror-group -designation#.V5MAG_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13847 (20160722) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/005401d1e4b3%2435053e30%249f0fba90%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
