The Middle East Policy Council correctly notes that “terrorist attacks in China have been on the rise lately and are spreading from Xinjiang to other parts of China.” Uyghurs have been found fighting for or having ties with the Islamic State in Indonesia and Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, called for Uyghurs to join him in a holy war against the Chinese government. “China is concerned that Chinese Muslim Uighurs who enlist with ISIS will receive training in terrorist techniques [...] and expand their connections in international terrorist organizations,” the article reads. Terrorist attacks in the Chinese capital, Beijing, were on the rise -- said attacks being carried out by radical Chinese Muslims. (source)

In 2015, Reuters also noted that a group of Uyghurs who were deported from Thailand to China were planning on joining with jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq to fight on their side. The largest anti-Chinese, pro-Uyghur group, the World Uyghur Conference, even admitted that these Uyghurs were radicalized by propaganda spread by the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (an al-Qaeda backed terrorist organization operating in Xinjiang), although they also add that “‘their running away is all about a non-violent way to save themselves’”. (source)

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement now operates under the name the “Turkestan Islamic Party”, a group which Osama Bin Laden showed and gave support for and whose members have been known to carry out terrorist attacks such as those in Kashgar, Urumqi, and Wuhan. The Turkestan Islamic Party officially became part of Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda organization operating out of Syria, or was at least vying to become so (source). The Syrian ambassador to China even declared that thousands of ethnic Uyghurs had gone from China to Syria to fight with the Islamic State and other jihadi groups. What’s more, there is an active branch of the Turkestan Islamic Party operating in Syria with as many as 4,000 members, The TIP (though this is according to a Chinese source) carried out “over 200 terrorist incidents in Xinjiang resulting in the deaths of 162 people of all ethnic groups [... and injuring more than 440 people]” between 1990 and 2001 (Chinese source) The Turkestan Islamic Party also employs the use of child soldiers (source). In 2017, the Islamic State “released a video of Chinese Uighur Muslims threatening to return home and ‘shed blood like rivers.’” The video also contained footage recorded within Xinjiang, displaying their presence in the autonomous region.

Terrorist attacks were carried out by Uyghur separatists in 1989, 1990, 1992 (twice), 1997, 2008 (twice), 2009 (three times), 2011, 2011 (three times), 2012 (twice), 2013 (three times), and five times in 2014; these put together killed at least 411 people.

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