Uyghur fighters in Syria vow to come for China next
A Uyghur militant group that helped to topple Bashar-al Assad has vowed to take the fight to China.
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) threatened Beijing in a video released on Dec 8, the day the Syrian regime collapsed, showing its fighters holding machine guns and wearing military fatigues.
βNow here in Syria, in all the cities here, we fight for Allah, and we will continue to do this in our Urumchi, Aqsu and Kashgar in the future,β said one masked man, listing cities in Chinaβs Xinjiang region, from where the Uyghurs hail. βWe will chase the Chinese infidels away.β
Using the Uyghursβ preferred name for their homeland, he added: βWe have fought in Homs, in Idlib and we will continue the fight in East Turkistan.
βAllah has given us a victory here. May he also grant us a victory in our own land.β
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