China executes 8 Xinjiang terrorists
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EIGHT terrorists have been executed with the approval of China’s Supreme People’s Court, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region’s publicity department announced at the weekend.
Their crimes involved a terrorist attack in Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square, the murder of police officers, the illegal manufacture of explosives and establishing terrorist groups.
Huseyin Guxur, Yusup Wherniyas and Yusup Ehmet had been sentenced to death for organizing and leading a terrorist organization and jeopardizing public security. They masterminded the terrorist attack in Tian’anmen Square which left six people dead, including three terrorists, and injured 39 others on October 28 last year.
Rozi Eziz was convicted of gun charges and the murder of police officers on June 28 last year in Aksu’s Wushi County.
Abdusalam Elim established a terrorist group in May 2011 and, with group members, watched and listened to religious extremist material and conducted illegal religious activities. The group raised funds for physical training and manufactured, stored and transported explosives devices.
Memet Tohtiyusup had watched audio-visual material on religious extremism, violence and terror since February 2013. He killed a civilian on April 18, 2013.
Abdumomin Imin had organized terrorist training since March 2008 and became a group leader. He led Bilal Berdi and other members to set on fire two checkpoints and two police vehicles in 2011 and murdered an officer with the forestry bureau of Hotan on December 13 last year. Both had been sentenced to death on charges of organizing and leading a terror organization, arson and murder.
Meanwhile, the terror group leader who died in the Tian’anmen Square attack, Usmen Hasan, was seen burning national flags in video footage broadcast by China Central Television yesterday.
In footage found on his computers and mobile phones, he’s seen burning a large Chinese flag by the side of a river. In a kitchen he’s seen holding up small flags of many different countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Malaysia and Pakistan, before spitting on them and setting them alight on a gas stove. One segment shows him jumping up and down on another flag.
Hasan, his wife Gulkiz Gheni and his mother Kuwanhan Reyim had driven a vehicle into a crowd at Tian’anmen Square before the vehicle crashed into a guardrail of the Jinshui Bridge across the moat of the Forbidden City. The family of three died at the scene after they used gasoline to set the vehicle on fire.
The video footage aired yesterday also showed Hasan’s terror group apparently preparing for the attack on a barren hillside near Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital. Several members are seen trying on black headgear with white lettering and later joining their hands together as if making vows.
In an interview with CCTV also aired yesterday, Wherniyas said Hasan’s wife had provided what he described as hats and Hasan had handed them out to the group. They were then ordered to swear to start jihad (holy war) for Allah.
Guxur and Hasan had made several trips to the region’s Yili and Korla areas to recruit new members and secure weapons and explosives for terror attacks, CCTV reported.
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