China's anti-terrorism tactics should not be seen as targeting Uygurs, says ‘Eastern Nato’

[Nan Yang]

China's anti-terrorism tactics should not be seen as targeting Uygurs, says ‘Eastern Nato’

• Head of Central Asian eight-nation cooperative defends China’s terrorism response as ‘big and rational’
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will continue to ‘take the root out’ of the…

Kinling LoUPDATED : Monday, 29 Oct 2018, 9:57PM

The head of the “Eastern Nato” has commented on Beijing’s anti-terrorism tactics in Xinjiang autonomous region, saying terrorism cannot be defined by “nationalities, geographical adherence or religion”.

Rashid Alimov, secretary general of the China-Russia led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), said: “We don’t divide terrorists in terms of their nationalities, their geographical adherence or religion. Because terrorism does not have any of that.

"It does not matter what terrorists claim to do or the highest purpose they claim to serve to justify terrorism. Because every terrorist's goal is to kill. It's number one goal is to kill peaceful people."

Alimov, a former foreign minister of Tajikistan – one of eight member countries of SCO – was responding to global criticism of China’s forceful, systematic detention and enforced political education of up to one million ethnic Uygurs and other Muslims.

China has called these camps “vocational training centres” to “educate and transform” people influenced by extremism.

“If you look at all terrorists attacks, they occur at peaceful places … How can it be connected to terrorists’ religion, city, region? It has nothing to do with it. Therefore we will continue to decisively work towards taking the root out of the terrorist, and it is evil,” Alimov said.

https://m.scmp.com/news/china/diplo...-detaining-muslims-endorsed-regional-alliance

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

China's anti-terrorism tactics should not be seen as targeting Uygurs, says ‘Eastern Nato’

• Head of Central Asian eight-nation cooperative defends China’s terrorism response as ‘big and rational’
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will continue to ‘take the root out’ of the…

Kinling LoUPDATED : Monday, 29 Oct 2018, 9:57PM

The head of the “Eastern Nato” has commented on Beijing’s anti-terrorism tactics in Xinjiang autonomous region, saying terrorism cannot be defined by “nationalities, geographical adherence or religion”.

Rashid Alimov, secretary general of the China-Russia led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), said: “We don’t divide terrorists in terms of their nationalities, their geographical adherence or religion. Because terrorism does not have any of that.

"It does not matter what terrorists claim to do or the highest purpose they claim to serve to justify terrorism. Because every terrorist's goal is to kill. It's number one goal is to kill peaceful people."

Alimov, a former foreign minister of Tajikistan – one of eight member countries of SCO – was responding to global criticism of China’s forceful, systematic detention and enforced political education of up to one million ethnic Uygurs and other Muslims.

China has called these camps “vocational training centres” to “educate and transform” people influenced by extremism.

“If you look at all terrorists attacks, they occur at peaceful places … How can it be connected to terrorists’ religion, city, region? It has nothing to do with it. Therefore we will continue to decisively work towards taking the root out of the terrorist, and it is evil,” Alimov said.

https://m.scmp.com/news/china/diplo...-detaining-muslims-endorsed-regional-alliance

So Alimov is not denying there may be up to 1 million people in these “vocational camps”. Shouldn’t he be joining China instead and saying all the reports are rubbish?

 

[master_13]

So Alimov is not denying there may be up to 1 million people in these “vocational camps”. Shouldn’t he be joining China instead and saying all the reports are rubbish?

up to 1 million, lol. Even Wall Street Journal report recently revised the number significantly down to hundreds of thousands estimated. I guess even American media figured 1 million is too out of this world fake number and invited tons of laughter from its own audience.

 

[oprih]

The western fake news brigade fails again.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

up to 1 million, lol. Even Wall Street Journal report recently revised the number significantly down to hundreds of thousands estimated. I guess even American media figured 1 million is too out of this world fake number and invited tons of laughter from its own audience.

Just quoting the OP

“was responding to global criticism of China’s forceful, systematic detention and enforced political education of up to one million ethnic Uygurs and other Muslims.”

 

[TaiShang]

China's anti-terrorism tactics should not be seen as targeting Uygurs, says ‘Eastern Nato’

• Head of Central Asian eight-nation cooperative defends China’s terrorism response as ‘big and rational’
• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will continue to ‘take the root out’ of the…

Kinling LoUPDATED : Monday, 29 Oct 2018, 9:57PM

The head of the “Eastern Nato” has commented on Beijing’s anti-terrorism tactics in Xinjiang autonomous region, saying terrorism cannot be defined by “nationalities, geographical adherence or religion”.

Rashid Alimov, secretary general of the China-Russia led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), said: “We don’t divide terrorists in terms of their nationalities, their geographical adherence or religion. Because terrorism does not have any of that.

"It does not matter what terrorists claim to do or the highest purpose they claim to serve to justify terrorism. Because every terrorist's goal is to kill. It's number one goal is to kill peaceful people."

Alimov, a former foreign minister of Tajikistan – one of eight member countries of SCO – was responding to global criticism of China’s forceful, systematic detention and enforced political education of up to one million ethnic Uygurs and other Muslims.

China has called these camps “vocational training centres” to “educate and transform” people influenced by extremism.

“If you look at all terrorists attacks, they occur at peaceful places … How can it be connected to terrorists’ religion, city, region? It has nothing to do with it. Therefore we will continue to decisively work towards taking the root out of the terrorist, and it is evil,” Alimov said.

https://m.scmp.com/news/china/diplo...-detaining-muslims-endorsed-regional-alliance

This is the whole reason for the SCO.

China was extremely smart to predict the importance of Central Asia and proposed the SCO (Shanghai Five, in the beginning) in order to root out the existing terrorism and radicalism, and preempt any efforts to export extremism from the Middle East.

The US is being seen as the primary proponent of the spread of terrorism in CA, hence, the SCO can be regarded as an organization that preempts and prevents US state sponsorship of terrorism.

It is working well. CA is more or less intact despite the fire going on in the Middle East.

 

[Nan Yang]

This is the whole reason for the SCO.

China was extremely smart to predict the importance of Central Asia and proposed the SCO (Shanghai Five, in the beginning) in order to root out the existing terrorism and radicalism, and preempt any efforts to export extremism from the Middle East.

The US is being seen as the primary proponent of the spread of terrorism in CA, hence, the SCO can be regarded as an organization that preempts and prevents US state sponsorship of terrorism.

It is working well. CA is more or less intact despite the fire going on in the Middle East.

The SCO is also setting up an court to settle any dispute within it's members. This could be a start of an international court.

 

[TaiShang]

The SCO is also setting up an court to settle any dispute within it's members. This could be a start of an international court.

Very good initiative, indeed. To legitimize existing Western-led institutions by launching alternatives is the best way. In this way, you do not seem aggressive because you would not directly challenged the established order.

You would be just giving more options for countries to shop. Like the AIIB.