Posted on 05/09/2017 5:57:45 AM PDT by mac_truck
Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding that Beijing should be extremely concerned about it.
China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight for militants there, having traveled illegally via Southeast Asia and Turkey.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of a Chinese hostage in 2015, highlighting China's concern about Uighurs it says are fighting in the Middle East.
Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years, most in unrest between Uighurs and ethnic majority Han Chinese. The government blames the unrest on Islamist militants who want a separate state called East Turkestan.
Syria's ambassador in Beijing, Imad Moustapha, told Reuters on the sidelines of a business forum that while some of the Uighurs were fighting with Islamic State, most were fighting "under their own banner" to promote their separatist cause.
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And it’s not even Wednesday!
Love, Mark
China would be happy if every Chinese Muslim went to fight in Syria. They probably wont be allowed back.
I’m more concerned by all of the Iranians and Hezbollah members fighting there, trying out all of their new weapons systems.
There were a bunch of Uighers captured in AFG after the invasion, and a group of Uighers and Uzbeks (Tohir Yuldashev) kept fighting for the Waziristan (Taliban) warlords till just a few years ago. They either died or got too old to keep fighting.
Are the US and our allies still sticking to the story that what happened in Syria is a popular uprising of Syrians against Assad?
At least they’re testing them on ISIS and Al Qaeda
Sounds like Syria is trying to get China to up their support
Ding ding ding
The so- called “ civil war”
Duh oh!
That should concern everyone
As long as they die there, you're probably right.
And you wonder why the Chinese government is aggressively going after the Uighurs in Xinjiang.
The government of China has been pursuing Uighurs ever since the first numbers trained in camps in Afghanistan began their return to China in the late 1980s.
Well all the Syrians hit the road and some idiot has to do their fighting
I'd like to see someone ask Gen. Mattis that question.
You are more concerned with groups that are protecting Christian communities from genocide than the al-Qaeda terrorists who are persecuting Christians?
What happened to this site that Hezbollah and Iran are now held up as heroes of the people? They’re an anti-US axis that’s growing. Yeah, they’re hitting a mix of al-Qaeda and non-al-Qaeda fighters, but doing so to support one of the most anti-US and anti-Israel leaders in the Middle East - and meanwhile they’ve been effectively strengthening ISIS, the biggest terrorism threat to the US in the world right now.
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