What terror activities did the East Turkistan terrorist group you have just mentioned carry out inside China?
You have raised a very important question. To our knowledge, the ETIM , also known as the East Turkistan Islamic Party Allah and the East Turkistan Islamic Party is one of the most dangerous groups of the East Turkistan terrorist forces. Its aim is to split China by terrorist activities and establish a so-called Islamic State of East Turkistan under temporal and religious administration in Xinjiang, China. This group has established bases outside China to train terrorists, and incessantly dispatched members to China to plot, command and carry out terrorist sabotage, including the huge warehouse explosion in Urumqi in May 1998 and the blast in Hetian city, Xinjiang, in March 1999. According to the incomplete statistics of the Chinese police, the terrorist activities such as explosions and assassinations plotted and carried out by the group has claimed 166 deaths and over 440 injuries. The Chinese police have been cracking down on this group all along and 44 hideouts have been destroyed.
