Police names 6 wanted terrorists

: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail Xinhua, April 6, 2012

Adjust font size:

The Chinese police have published a list of six terrorists, all of whom were core members of the terrorist group "East Turkistan Islamic Movement". [Photo source: Ministry of Public Security]

Chinese police have published a list of six terrorists and decided to freeze their funds and assets.

The six were all core members of the terrorist group "East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)," according to a statement issued Thursday by the Ministry of Public Security.

They have participated in the organization, and planned and executed terrorist acts against Chinese targets within and outside the country, the ministry said in the statement on its official website.

The six terrorists were identified as Nurmemet Memetmin, Abdulkyum Kurban, Paruh Tursun, Tursunjan Ebibla, Nurmemet Raxit, and Mamat Imin Nurmamat.

The ministry hoped that foreign governments and their law enforcing departments would help to arrest the six and hand them over to Chinese authorities.

Nurmemet Memetmin, 47, was one of the founders of the ETIM in 1997. He published text and video statements on the Internet as the commander of the ETIM in August 2011.

He set up a terrorist training camp in a South Asian country in 1997 and acted as a military instructor there. He had trained dozens of terrorists, some of whom later became ringleaders, military instructors and core members.

Nurmemet Memetmin sent an ETIM member named Memtieli Tiliwaldi to China in 2007. Memtieli Tiliwaldi and other terrorists staged a series of murders, bombings and arsons in Kashgar, Xinjiang in July 2011, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries of civilians and police officers.

Nurmemet Memetmin posted an online statement in August 2011, claiming the terrorist acts were conducted by the ETIM.

1 2 Next