Terrorism against Chinese targets

broadsword

Brigadier
But exiles and rights groups say China has never presented convincing evidence of the existence of a cohesive militant group fighting the government, and that much of the unrest can be traced back to frustration at controls over the culture and religion of the Uighur people who live in Xinjiang, a charge Beijing denies.

No cohesive militant group? Yet Radio Free Asia reported at least 50 people died in the attack and
when police officers arrived at the mine, attackers "rammed their vehicles using trucks loaded down with coal"
 

broadsword

Brigadier
While "officially" this may not be an act of terrorism....I feel the act of planting bombs in public places is terrorism I don't care what the police anywhere on planet Earth call it. Acts such as this cause terror in the hearts and minds of citizens. Just my opinion.

Killing of a number of people on campuses also causes terror, but the police does not call it terrorism. The right diction is important so as not to confuse people.

I forgot about the picture of the destroyed building in the southern China attack. But if it was an attack by the Uighur terrorists, they will proudly boast about it very soon. I am surprised they have not.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
No cohesive militant group? Yet Radio Free Asia reported at least 50 people died in the attack and

By western standards, most of these exile and right groups would qualify as terrorist organisations and their members terrorists or terrorist sympathisers.

If these people did what they are doing in China in any western nation, these terrorists apologists and enables would quickly find themselves in a CIA blacksite or staring down the seeker of a hellfire missile.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
While "officially" this may not be an act of terrorism....I feel the act of planting bombs in public places is terrorism I don't care what the police anywhere on planet Earth call it. Acts such as this cause terror in the hearts and minds of citizens. Just my opinion.

I think the key to the difference in classification comes from the definition of terrorism, which is

"the unofficial or unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims."

I know there is much controversy and many subtle but important differences in how various countries and organisations define terrorism, but the part everyone seems to agree on is the part in bold above.

The key characteristic of terrorism is that it has a political goal or aim as its core motivation and objective.

Some madman shooting random people because he has a mental illness or just wants to kill people is not committing a terrorist attack because he is not doing what he does for any political aim or goal.

On the other hand, someone who kills a person with a plastic bag is committing an act of terrorism if he killed his victim to serve a political goal.

The method and tools used does not determine whether something is an act of terrorism, but rather the motive behind the act.

There are various tools which are most commonly used by terrorists, such as bombs, but just the use of bombs alone is not enough to constitute terrorism if the attacks have no political motive or aim in mind.
 

shen

Senior Member
If you have the stomach, read the RFA article about the attack. I find it so disgusting I won't even link it directly.

So we have at least 50 civilian miners knifed to death in their sleep. And this is what RFA have to say

"Uyghur groups in exile say such attacks are likely expressions of resistance to Beijing’s policies in Xinjiang, where Uyghurs complain of pervasive ethnic discrimination, religious repression, and cultural suppression by China’s communist government."

RFA is not even bothering to call such action terrorism in quotes anymore. The word terrorism doesn't appear anywhere in the article. If knifing civilians in sleep in order to further a political agenda (as the quote is describing) is not terrorism, then what is?
Remember this kind of reporting all funded by American taxpayers money.

oh, and if you read the details in the RFA article of how this attack was carried out (I don't know how RFA got these details), it almost reads like a step-by-step recipe for how future attacks should be carried out.
 
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tphuang

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this thread is getting out of control. If there is actually terrorism against Chinese targets, then feel free to post. But if it's just your personal theory about the West scheming against China, then that's completely off topic. Anything more on that and i will have to close the thread for a while.
 

SinoSoldier

Colonel
Interesting story...

Following a September terrorist attack at a Xinjiang coal mine, members of the special police force tracked the terrorists throughout the Xinjiang mountains for 56 days straight, ultimately ending their mission by eliminating all of the perpetrators.

This is how terrorism should be dealt with. Hopefully France's GIGN follows suit.

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