Death sentences for terror attacks
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EIGHT people were sentenced to death yesterday in connection with two terrorist attacks carried out in April and May in western China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
In April, a knife and bomb attack at a train station in the regional capital of Urumqi killed three people and injured 79 others.
In May, 39 people at a Urumqi market were killed and 94 were injured when terrorists hurled explosives out of the windows of two SUVs.
The Intermediate People’s Court of Urumqi also sentenced another five people to death with a two-year reprieve, and four others were sentenced to imprisonment.
Those sentenced to death include Ahmat Rixit, head of the group responsible for April’s violence, and Abliz Dawut and Nurahmat Ablipiz, main plotters of the May attack.
From February 2010 to April 2014, Ahmat Rixit and his associates gathered many times to listen to and watch audio and video clips about terror under the guidance of Ismail Yusup, a member of the terrorist group Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement.
Following April’s violence, the ETIM publicized a video showing a masked man assembling a bomb. The man, later identified as Ahmat Rixit, claimed the incident “a piece of good news,” and called those who detonated the bomb “warriors.”
According to Ahmat Rixit, the mastermind behind the video was Ismail Yusup, who also arranged for two other associates to help carry out the attacks.
Investigations found the April 30 violence was jointly organized and premeditated by terrorists both in and outside China.
In cooperation with the International Criminal Police Organization, Chinese police are hunting Ismail Yusup, who is believed to be outside of China.
The May 22 attack was also influenced by videos of terrorist attacks, the court said.
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