WANT CHINA TIMES - 2015-07-29
There are six main routes through which Chinese Islamist extremists
are being smuggled out of China to join the "holy war" in the Middle
East led by the Islamic State, the brutal jihadist organization also
known as ISIS, reports Duowei News, a US-based Chinese political news
outlet.
These six paths are said to originate either in northwest China's
Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, southwest China's Yunnan province,
southern China's Guangdong province or Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region,
and involve multiple transits across several countries before reaching
Turkey, the main springboard into Syria and Iraq, where Islamic State
controls a large swathe of territory.
Route one begins in the south of Xinjiang and involves crossing the
border directly into Pakistan, Afghanistan or the Kashmir region. This
route came about because southern Xinjiang's Pishan county has been a
breeding ground for religious radicals and is regarded as a major camp
for indoctrinating and training new recruits. The street market bombing
in the Xinjiang capital Urumqi on May 22 last year, which killed 43
people including four of the assailants, was said to have originated
from Pishan.
The second route involves crossing the border to the central Asian
nations of Kyrgyzstan or Uzbekistan via the Fergana Valley, which
spreads across eastern Uzbekistan, southern Kyrgyzstan and northern
Tajikistan. The valley is believed to be rife with terrorist activities
due to the lack of government controls and management, and as a result,
more and more Xinjiang recruits are reportedly using this path. Last
January, Kyrgyzstan border police reportedly shot dead 20 Uyghur
stowaways in the valley, just 30 kilometers from the Chinese border.
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