De-Listed ‘Chinese ISIS’ Terror Group “Rises from the Dead”
By New Atlas – September 23, 2021 (Brian Berletic – NEO)
Suspicions were raised when in late 2020 the US de-listed as a terrorist organization the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), sometimes referred to as the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) and accused China of Genocide for opposing them.
The US had claimed as its rationale that the ETIM/TIP had not been active for over a decade despite the US itself admitting to striking ETIM/TIP targets in Afghanistan as recently as 2018, just 2 years before the de-listing.
*(Turn this on its head to illustrate how bad it is: imagine it was China not the US who had invaded and bombed around the world in a War against Terror, causing the death of millions. Imagine it was China who then legalized and promoted homegrown ISIS groups in the US, and accused the US of Genocide in a worldwide campaign for resisting the horrific terrorist massacres in their own country).
In a notice in the Federal Register, which publishes new US laws and rules, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said he was revoking the designation of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a “terrorist organization.”
“ETIM was removed from the list because, for more than a decade, there has been no credible evidence that ETIM continues to exist,” a state department spokesperson said.
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The US State Department spokesperson’s claim went unchallenged by The Guardian despite the paper itself having written a 2013 article as recently as 7 years ago from the US de-listing of ETIM/TIP titled, “Islamist group claims responsibility for attack on China’s Tiananmen Square,” which reported:
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is the first group to claim responsibility for the attack on 28 October, when a four-wheel drive vehicle ploughed through a group of pedestrians near the iconic square in central Beijing, crashed into a stone bridge and caught fire, killing five people and injuring dozens. Chinese authorities quickly identified the driver as Uighur, a Muslim ethnic minority hailing from Xinjiang, a sparsely populated, restive region in the country’s far north-west.
Not only does the article indicate the US State Department lied in its claim the terrorist organization has been inactive for over a decade, it also illustrates the very real terrorist threat China faces nationwide from Xinjiang-based terrorist organizations.
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