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Kyrgyz Border Guards Say China Tightening Security


(RFE/RL) January 11, 2007 -- Kyrgyzstan's border-guard service says China has tightened security along its borders with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in recent days, following a raid on alleged terrorists in China's western Xinjiang region.


Chinese authorities said they were targeting terrorists at a training camp of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which seeks independence for ethnic Uyghurs in western China.


Eighteen people were killed and 17 detained in the operation, which a statement from the Kyrgyz border guards said took place between January 4-8.


Chinese authorities said a large amount of weapons were seized during the operation, which was carried out in the Tashkorgon region of Xinjiang.


(Interfax, AFP)

China In Central Asia

China In Central Asia
The Almaty,Kazakhstan, office of China's National Petroleum Corporation (RFE/RL)

BEIJING ON THE RISE: The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States prompted Washington to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. At the time, many predicted the United States would gain a new foothold in Central Asia: new U.S. military bases appeared in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, U.S. foreign aid increased, and much U.S. attention was lavished on the region. Russia and China looked on warily. But the pendulum may be swinging back in Moscow’s and Beijing’s favor. China, especially, has expended great effort at winning friends in Central Asia and is becoming a force to be reckoned with....(more)


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