HyperDic: east_turkistan_islamic_movement

English > 1 sense of the expression East Turkistan Islamic Movement:
NOUNgroupEast Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movementa group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang
English > East Turkistan Islamic Movement: 1 sense > noun 1, group
MeaningA group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression.
SynonymEast Turkestan Islamic Movement
Categoryterrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist actThe calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature
Instance ofterrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTOA political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
RegionXinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous RegionAn autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan

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