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2 unusual facts about Xinjiang raid


Xinjiang raid

The January 2007 Xinjiang raid was carried out on January 5, 2007 by the Chinese police against a suspected East Turkestan Islamic Movement training camp in Akto County in the Pamir plateau near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

According to Rafael Poch, at the time correspondent in China for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, the whole incident was the result of a local altercation between Uyghurs and Chinese authorities, with the privatization of a coal mine as the cause.



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