China's counter-terrorism authority refuted the defense of the
"Eastern Turkistan" terrorists and disclosed more detailed evidence
of their terrorist activities Friday.?
"We have ample, concrete evidence identifying these terrorist
organizations and their members," said an official with the
Counter-Terrorism Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Public
Security.
The official noted that from February 2001 to September 2002,
the president of the East Turkistan Information Center (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 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, 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 the
explosion scheme, 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.
(Xinhua News Agency February 14, 2004)