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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.

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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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