A Syrian official claimed
that nearly 5,000 Chinese Uyghurs are fighting with militant groups in Syria.
Syrian Ambassador to Beijing,
Imad Mustafa, said: “Our estimated numbers, because of the numbers we fight
against, we kill, we capture, we wound, would be around 4-5,000 Xinjiang
jihadists.”
“China as well as every other
countries should be extremely concerned,” Mustafa said, adding that China and
Syria are cooperating to face this threat.
China has repeatedly warned
that the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim minority pose a major threat to Beijing with
some traveling illegally to Syria and Iraq through Southeast Asia and Turkey to
fight with militants there.
