ஒலிம்பிக்ஸுக்கு நான்கு நாட்களுக்கு முன்பே சீனாவில் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாத செயல்கள் அதனை குறிவைத்து ஆரம்பிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது சீனாவுக்கு பலத்த அதிர்ச்சியை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.
சீன போலீஸார் மீது குண்டுவீசி, அவர்களை அறுத்து பலி போட்டுள்ளனர் இஸ்லாமிய பயங்கரவாதிகள்.
Cops Hacked And Bombed In China
1:36pm UK, Monday August 04, 2008
Sixteen policemen have been killed in a grenade and knife attack in China just four days before the Beijing Olympic Games begin.
Police in Kashgar
The assault, which left a further 16 officers wounded, happened in the Muslim-majority northwest Xinjiang region.
Two men rammed a lorry into a police station in the city of Kashgar, the Xinhua news agency reported.
It said: "They got off the lorry after the vehicle veered to hit a roadside wire pole. They threw two grenades to the police barracks, causing explosion.
"They also hacked the policemen with knives."
China has blamed Muslim separatist militants of the outlawed East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) for plotting attacks on the Beijing Olympics, which begin on August 8.
Sky News' China correspondent Peter Sharp said: "There are thought to be around 3,000 muslim Uighur fighters in Xinjiang campaigning for a separate homeland for the nearly nine million ethnic Uighurs.
"They’re a Turkic speaking central Asian people who live in the far west of China closer to Baghdad than Beijing.
"In July a Uighur group claimed responsibility for bus blasts in Shanghai and Kunming which killed several people. The Chinese security forces say they have broken up 12 Islamic terror networks bent on disrupting the Olympic Games.
"Both Washington and Beijing claim that members of ETIM have been given funding and training by Al Qaeda but this is disputed by some experts and denied by ETIM leaders."
In today's Sky News Lunchtime Debate Mr Zhao Shangsen, Second Secretary and Press Officer from the Chinese Embassy in London said: "It is a pity that an terrorist attack took place in Xinjiang this morning.
"I am confident the police will do a through and timely investigation, and hold into account those responsible."
Senior Colonel Tian Yixiang, in charge of Olympic security, has said East Turkestan terrorist groups were the biggest threat.
However, rights groups and the ethnic Muslim Uighur population in Xinjiang have accused the government of exaggerating the threat to enable a crackdown on dissent.
Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher for the monitoring group Human Rights, said: "This is the most serious incident recorded in years.
"Ahead of the Olympics, it is a very powerful symbolic attack because security in Xinjiang is at an all-time high."
China has deployed more than 100,000 security guards for the Games, which begin on Friday and end on August 24.
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