Jihadi Uighurs Going to Indonesia for Terrorism Training

Posted by on Oct 11, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

This Southeast Asian analyst does a fair job telling the story of extremist Uighurs traveling through Indochina to Indonesia for help in terrorism training and jihadi groups teaching them but he is off base about China’s policies in Xinjiang for which he presents a very distorted view.

Very critical of China’s ‘carrot and stick’ policies and ‘strike hard’ campaigns against jihadists and terrorist separatists in far west China, he urges the Chinese to take a page from the book of security services in Southeast Asia in uprooting terrorist groups.  While a lot in the Southeast Asian experience can become reference points for reform in China’s anti-terrorist strategy and tactics, I extremely doubt whether political negotiations with secessionist groups is one of them.

http://atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/SEA-01-101014.html

– Asia Times Online