Translator’s Note: This article is from 2007 – but like many older Chinese language texts from the PRC – it has only recently been made available for viewing in the West. The data it contains is important and historical in nature – recording China’s experience fighting US-backed Islamo-fascist terrorism in Xinjiang. Islamic terrorists, quite often NOT Uyghur – but claiming to represent “Eastern Turkestan” (a fictional country said in-part to exist within Xinjiang territory) – are armed and trained by the US and Turkey outside of China (through Taliban, ISIS and Al Qaeda networks) before being infiltrated into Xinjiang to carry-out mass murder of innocent civilians. The purpose of ETIM is to assist the US in the overthrow of the Socialist System in China. In assistance of this US anti-China policy – Turkey is attempting a huge land-grab in North-West China.
This degenerate attitude aligns with Turkey’s part in the overthrow of Socialist Syria and Turkey’s betrayal of the Palestinian people. Qatar and Saudi Arabia – two close allies of the US – oppose any form of Scientific Socialism, preferring instead Islamo-fascist (theological) States with no democracy or modernisation. These two Islamic States (amongst others) – including the Al Jazeera media outlet – propagate the US (racist) lie that Uyghur people are oppressed and/or wanting of rescue! None oof this is true. Socialist China is fighting Islamo-fascist terrorism and the bourgeois antagonism offered by the duplicitous United States. With the election of the Neo-Nazi Trump and the placement of the unelected (Zionist) Musk in the US – Islamic terrorism of this nature has started to increase in intensity. Watch this space for further US-inspired terrorist outrages! ACW (11.2.2025)
Heilongjiang Daily (12.1.2007)
The “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” is considered by the international community to be the “most violent organization”. On September 11, 2002, the UN Security Council officially included this organization in the list of terrorist organizations and dangerous individuals. On September 12, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan pointed out at a press conference for Chinese and foreign journalists that the “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” is an outright terrorist organization whose purpose is to split China through terrorist activities. If we count from the formal establishment of the main “East Turkestan” organization in the early 1990s, China’s crackdown on this terrorist force has lasted for 17 years (as of 2007).
Training Abroad and Sabotage at Home
Aisan Maihesumu, a native of Shule County, Xinjiang, is the Chairman of the overseas “East Turkestan Islamic Movement”.
In the early 1990s, Aisan Mahesumu was sentenced to three years of re-education through labour by the Public Security Authorities for participating in ethnic separatist and violent terrorist activities. After being released from re-education through labour in 1996, he went abroad. In April 1997, he founded the “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” in Pakistan. Later, he joined the Taliban’s Osama Bin Laden, where he served as the “Common Issue Consultant” for Al-Qaeda. The “common issue” between Aisan Mahesumu and Osama Bin Laden was to combine Xinjiang’s terrorist organizations with the Taliban and Bin Laden to become part of the international terrorist organization.
On October 2, 2003, in the northern mountainous area of Pakistan, Aisan Mahesum was killed by the joint encirclement and suppression carried-out by US and Pakistani armies. However, the terrorists trained by Aisan Maihesumu (and the Taliban) did not stop their actions. Since 1997, relying on the training camp of the Afghan “Al-Qaeda”, Aisan Maihesumu recruited Xinjiang terrorists and religious extremists for training, and then sent them to the Afghan war for actual combat training. He then sent them to China to carry out terrorist sabotage activities. Mutalip Hasmu is a well-known international terrorist. After being captured by Xinjiang police, he confessed that Aisan Maihesumu said he wanted to take the “children” to learn how to make explosives, saying that he had to carry out explosive activities. Mutalip Hasmu was taken to Bin Laden’s camp, where Bin Laden was present. “I didn’t greet him, I just stood five or six metres away and looked at him from afar.” The Taliban provided them with weapons, and sometimes equipped them with some tanks and general weapons to cooperate with the training.
When they arrived at the “base”, the first subjects they had to learn were: light weapons, running, military exercises, etc. Some people died because of the high intensity of the training. “Aishan Maihesumu’s goal is not only to split Xinjiang, but also to establish a country. First, establish a country in the local area, and then gradually expand it.” Mutalip Hasmu said. Haimiti Mamati is a trained terrorist. He said that in this training camp, they spent more than two months “learning to set fire and kill people”. “Command from abroad, act in China, train from abroad, destroy in China”, for a time, the anti-terrorism situation in Xinjiang was grim. By establishing a large number of terrorist training camps in China and sending them directly to Taliban camps in Afghanistan for training, terrorist organizations can quickly turn a religious fanatic into a terrorist. Especially terrorists trained by al-Qaeda have long regarded precious life as worthless, claiming that “the desire for death is greater than the desire for life.”
Four Centres of “East Turkistan”
Many people may still remember the bus bombing in Urumqi in the 1990s. Pan Zhiping, Director of the Institute of Central Asian Studies of the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters: “Everyone was quite nervous at the time. They didn’t dare to take the bus, and they were very careful when getting on the bus. If they saw a handbag without an owner, they would be careful and alert.” However, few people knew at that time that China’s battle against terrorism had already begun in Xinjiang.
The 1990s was the period when China faced the most serious threat of terrorism. In 1999, two months after the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the gradually growing “East Turkistan” separatist organization held a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, where it established a policy of violent seizure of power and planned to launch a terrorist war.
This is not just talk. The “East Turkistan” separatist organizations have long been integrated into the “main channel” of international terrorism. Even before the Istanbul Conference of the “East Turkistan”, some organizations had already planned to smuggle weapons with the help of international funds and sent members to Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir and other places to participate in actual combat training. The Russian army and the US army have captured “East Turkistan” members in Chechnya and Afghanistan respectively. Xu Tao, a researcher at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said that after “911”, “Al-Qaeda” and the Taliban began to establish large-scale training camps on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan and in Central Asia, and a large number of “East Turkistan” personnel were trained in them.
Among them, the most radical is the “East Turkestan Islamic Movement” (ETIM) formed in Afghanistan. In the Taliban camp, there is even a “Chinese Camp” composed of “ETIM”, which is composed of about 320 terrorists from Xinjiang. In February 2001, Bin Laden’s terrorist forces and Taliban senior officials discussed the training of “East Turkestan” terrorists in Kandahar and decided to allocate huge sums of money to help train “East Turkestan” terrorists.
According to the statistics of the “Xinjiang Anti-Terrorism Ten Years Achievement Exhibition”, throughout the 1990s, the “East Turkistan” separatist forces carried out more than 250 violent terrorist cases in Xinjiang, causing more than 600 casualties. Before China established a regional anti-terrorism mechanism at the beginning of this century, China had independently fought terrorism for nearly 10 years. On September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center in New York collapsed, there were basically no organized activities of the “East Turkistan” forces in China.
According to a 2002 document titled “East Turkistan Terrorist Forces Cannot Escape Responsibility”, there are more than 50 “East Turkistan” separatist organizations in and outside China, and more than 40 of them are mainly active abroad. Counter-terrorism expert Li Wei told reporters that after years of development, these organizations have basically formed four activity centers: Central Asia, Turkey, the United States and Germany.
There are about 11 “East Turkistan” organizations in Central Asia, of which 4 are directly engaged in violent terrorist activities; about 20 are active in Turkey, of which 3 train terrorists, organize armed forces, and smuggle weapons into China; and 3 are active in the mountainous areas at the junction of Pakistan and Afghanistan, respectively engaged in subversion and receiving fugitives, smuggling weapons, and political and religious infiltration; and the political organizations of “East Turkistan” are mainly concentrated in Germany.
The training camps of organizations that carry out violent terrorist activities are currently mainly concentrated in Central Asia and the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Pakistan-Afghanistan border has always been the nest of international terrorism. In the past, a large number of “East Turkistan” personnel were trained here. Today, its function has not degenerated at all. The terrorist training base destroyed by the Xinjiang Public Security organs is located in the mountainous area of the Pamir Plateau, close to the border between western China and Central Asian countries.
Xinjiang has Experienced a Peak of Violence and Terror
1990: The First Terrorist Incident
The “Baren Township Riot” was the most serious armed riot in Xinjiang in the 40 years since its liberation, and the first terrorist incident in Xinjiang beginning in the early 1990s. It was a signal and a beginning. Since then, large-scale violent terrorist activities have occurred in Xinjiang throughout the 1990s. The old man Yimin Yumaier, who has lived in Baren Township all his life, is a witness to the Baren Township Riot. In the spring of 1990, the old man noticed that there was a different atmosphere in the village.
Some people colluded with the villagers, forcing Muslims to donate money and requiring everyone to “take an oath with the scripture” and join a “party”. Those who joined their “party” had to pay at least 50 yuan, of which 20 yuan was for activity funds, 20 yuan was for white sneakers, and 10 yuan was for knives. If anyone refused to do it, these people would threaten them with knives.
The person who manipulated all this was a man named Zeding Yusup. In the late 1980s, Zeding Yusup went to Kashgar to study the Islamic scriptures. After returning to Barin Township, he formed the “East Turkestan Islamic Party”. These abnormal phenomena attracted the attention of the Akto County Party Committee and the County Government. When the Public Security organs began to investigate, Zeding Yusup decided to riot in advance. On the afternoon of April 4, more than 200 people gathered at the mosque in Cheke Village. At 18:30 that day, the protesters began to besiege the township government.
Because they could not judge the nature of the incident and were afraid of hurting religious people, all the Armed Police on the scene followed the order not to shoot, even though many Armed Police had been killed with five were taken hostage. At 4:10 a.m., the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Party Committee received instructions from the central government that the incident was an armed riot. The Armed Police and Public Security Personnel began to fight back. Zeding Yusup was shot dead.
1996~1997: “Broken Bridges to Drive Out the Han” Series of Assassination Operations
Twenty-two terrorists traveled thousands of miles to various places to carrying-out violent terrorist plans and assassination lists, planning to assassinate 24 Xinjiang Party and government officials and religious figures on the 17th day of Ramadan, and to create explosions and riots across Xinjiang. At 6:30 on May 12, 1996, at the darkest moment before dawn, the 70-year-old Aronghan Aji and his son appeared on time in the hidden alleys of Kashgar. Every day, he walked in the early hours whilst many people were asleep and went to the Id Kah Mosque to preside over the first prayer before sunrise. But this day was different from all other days. A shining dagger was waiting for him.
Aronghan Aji and his son were rescued. It was almost a miracle that he survived after being stabbed more than 20 times. When the assassin was captured and interrogated, the assassin expressed his conflicting feelings at the time: he had to complete the mission, but he could not do it because of his awe of the religious leader Aronghan Aji. Id Kah Mosque is the largest mosque in China with a history of 550 years. It is the centre of Chinese Islamic culture, and the aji who presides over the mosque is also considered to be the most knowledgeable and most able to understand religious doctrines as the most respected of religious persons.
The Islamic Opposition Party called this series of assassinations “breaking bridges” and “driving out the Han people”. They classified all religious figures who opposed their separatist plots as murderers, thereby severing the flesh-and-blood ties between the Han and ethnic minorities. Fortunately, Xinjiang police soon found clues to crack the plot by discovering the blacklist of proposed victims and prevent the assassinations. Yining, located in the beautiful Yili River Valley, is an important town in the eastern part of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang, where merchants from all over the world gather.
At about 9:00 a.m. on February 5, 1997, a group of people suddenly rushed out of the streets of Yining City, holding banners, shouting slogans, and marching along the main streets of Yining City. Like a snowball, at about 12:00, the number of marchers increased from more than 100 to more than 1,000. Then, the rioters holding sticks, bricks, and knives began their violent acts. A young couple was surrounded by rioters at the entrance of the People’s Hospital. The woman was slashed on the face with a knife, kicked and trampled, and died on the spot. The man was also seriously injured.
A soldier who was returning home to visit his family was stoned to death when passing through Qianjin Street. A secretary of a township cultural centre was stabbed to death by them at the intersection of Yili Street, and then thrown into a pile of burning paper and burned. The results of the police investigation showed that the core members who organized the “February 5” riots arrived in Yining from Kashgar and Hotan respectively. They belonged to the “East Turkestan Islamic Hezbollah”. After arriving in Yining, they went from street to street to incite the masses and asked the masses to burn their identity cards, marriage certificates and other documents issued by the government.
1997: Explosion Strikes Urumqi Again
Five years after the original attacks in 1992, the terrorists once again chose Urumqi, the capital of the autonomous region, and chose the date of February 25, 1997, the day when the Memorial Service for Comrade Deng Xiaoping was held in Beijing.
The bombs were carefully placed in four different directions of Urumqi, south, north, west and east, and in the most populous and concentrated places in Urumqi. All the bombs were set to explode at the same time. The police investigation found that the bombs were filled with iron nails, steel balls, nuts and screws, which were sprayed out by strong nitric acid explosives, and the power was no different from bullets. The cold-bloodedness and cruelty of the terrorists was shocking.
A Han father lost his 9-year-old daughter. His two lovely daughters had just finished school. After a loud bang, the entire back of the bus disappeared, his eldest daughter was seriously injured, and the youngest daughter died on the spot. A Uyghur father also lost his daughter. Nine years have passed, and he still cannot see his daughter’s photograph or listen to others talking about this. There has been no happiness in the past nine years. A Hui father lost his son. Every February 25th, the couple cannot get out of bed and do anything all day.
Kunlun Mountain Pursuit
The explosion in Urumqi on February 5, 1992 was solved in Kashgar, 1,500 kilometres away. When the case was being solved, the main suspect had already escaped and was preparing to flee abroad from the Kunlun Pass. When the Xinjiang police pursuit team arrived at the foot of Kunlun Mountain, the suspect had already fled into the Kunlun Mountain before the mountain was blasted and the road was closed. What to do? All the mountain roads had been blocked. At an altitude of more than 5,000 metres, cars and people could not go up. A helicopter was used to airlift the investigators up Kunlun Mountain!
During August, the snow was melting on Kunlun Mountains, and the terrorists could not move. Suddenly, a mountain torrent broke out, and their guide and camel were washed away by the flood. They had to turn back and go down the mountain, and they ran into the police who were chasing them. Seven people suddenly appeared on the desolate Kunlun Mountains, and all the investigators became alert. The winding mountain road could only accommodate one car, and the investigator braked and stopped the car in front of one person, blocking the way.
The sudden arrival of the police stunned the seven people. They instinctively raised their hands to let the police search them. The police first found a pistol in one person’s pocket, then a military grenade, and then another pistol. Suddenly, a terrorist struck a police officer to the ground. On one side is a towering mountain, and on the other side is a bottomless river. Fighting at an altitude of four or five thousand metres high means extreme physical consumption and inability to do it.
A police officer fired a burst of bullets without saying a word. The gunshots made the violence hesitate for a moment, and it was at this opportunity that the riot was suppressed. In this battle, two criminals were killed on the spot and five were captured alive. All the main criminals of the February 5, 1992 bombing case were brought to justice. For the Xinjiang police, this was just the beginning.
Fierce Battle: Gun-Hunting Operation Turns the Tide of the War
The success of the Gun-Hunting Operation not only dismantled many brewing conspiracies, but more importantly, it allowed the Xinjiang police to take the initiative in the fight against terrorism and reverse the passive situation of following terrorist incidents. On April 6, 1998, at the Horgos Port in Xinjiang, Soviet-made military pistols, submachine guns, bullets of various calibers and other weapons were found on a foreign freight truck entering from Kazakhstan. The police immediately issued a warrant to arrest the important suspects in the smuggling of weapons.
After being arrested, a foreign violent terrorist confessed that he had smuggled weapons by transporting tea from February to April, and after April, he had transported weapons by sending wool and other means. How many guns were secretly transported in? In this battle to dig deep into the terrorists and their hidden guns, the police and Armed Police had many fierce gun battles with the terrorists. Long Fei and Kong Yongqiang, police officers of the Riot Control Detachment of the Yili District Public Security Bureau, and Nurtai Anivalbek, a police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment, died in the battle to seize guns.
On the evening of April 19, 1998, Long Fei, the captain of the First Squadron of the Riot Squad of the Yili District Public Security Bureau, was ordered to go out with the Riot Squad to round up the violent terrorists involved in the “April 6” weapons smuggling case. It was raining all day. The terrorists huddled in a mud house. In the early morning of the 20th, Long Fei was the first to climb over the wall and enter the yard, approaching the room where the thugs were hiding. At the moment Long Fei broke into the room, the thugs in the room opened fire. In the exchange of fire, Long Fei was shot in the neck by the bullet fired by the thugs while injuring the other party.
Two months later, in the early morning of June 26, 1998, the Riot Squad of the Yili District Public Security Bureau was once again ordered to attack and conduct a unified search for the hiding places of the violent terrorists involved in the weapons smuggling case. This lightning-fast raid destroyed the other party’s command system and crushed the other party’s plan to carry out a terrorist bombing in the Yili area on June 30. However, during the search and arrest process, the participating police officers encountered stubborn resistance with guns from the terrorists. During the battle, Kong Yongqiang, captain of the Second Squad of the First Squadron of the Riot Control Detachment of the Yili Regional Public Security Bureau, and Nurtai Anivalbek, a police officer of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Yili Regional Public Security Bureau, died heroically.
After Nurtai Aniwarbek died, his sister found a diary written by her brother, which read: “Now I will fight them resolutely to safeguard the interests of the people. I am a police officer and I love this profession.” This was his final diary entry. Long Fei, Kong Yongqiang and Nurtai Aniwarbek were good friends. After the martyrs died, people buried Long Fei and Kong Yongqiang together, and Nurtai Aniwarbek was buried in an Islamic cemetery according to Islamic customs, but they all returned to the embrace of the earth and are heroes in people’s hearts. After more than a decade of hard and persistent crackdowns, when international terrorist activities have brought greater instability to the world, Xinjiang has entered a period of stability and peace. Only those who fight on the front line of anti-terrorism know most deeply what all this means and how hard it is to achieve all this.
Chinese Language Text:
反击“东突”十七年 恐怖分子在新疆欠累累血债
http://www.sina.com.cn 2007年01月12日12:24 黑龙江日报
“东突厥斯坦伊斯兰运动”被国际上认为是“最暴力化的组织”。2002年9月11日，联合国安理会正式将这个组织列入恐怖组织和个人名单。9月12日，中国外交部发言人孔泉在中外记者会上指出，“东突伊斯兰运动”是一个彻头彻尾的恐怖主义组织，它的宗旨就是要通过恐怖主义活动分裂中国。如果从1990年代前期“东突”的主要组织正式建立算起，中国对这一恐怖势力的打击，已持续17年。
境外培训境内破坏
艾山·买合苏木，新疆疏勒县人，境外“东突厥斯坦伊斯兰运动”主席。
1990年代初，艾山·买合苏木因参与民族分裂和暴力恐怖活动，被公安机关处以3年劳动教养，1996年解除劳教后去往国外，1997年4月，他在巴基斯坦成立了“东突厥斯坦伊斯兰运动”。之后又投靠了“塔利班”奥玛尔和本·拉丹，在这里，他的职务是“基地组织”的“共同问题顾问”。艾山·买合苏木与本·拉丹的“共同问题”就是将新疆的恐怖组织与塔利班和本·拉丹联成一体，成为国际恐怖组织的一部分。
2003年10月2日，在巴基斯坦北部山区，艾山·买合苏木被美国和巴方军队的联合围剿击毙。
但是，艾山·买合苏木和塔利班培养出来的恐怖分子并没有停止行动。
自1997年起，依托阿富汗“基地组织”的训练营地，艾山·买合苏木网罗新疆籍恐怖分子和宗教极端分子进行培训，随后送往阿富汗战争中进行实战锻炼，然后再遣入中国境内进行恐怖破坏活动。
木塔里甫·哈斯木就是一个知名国际恐怖分子，他被新疆警方抓获后交代：艾山·买合苏木说要把“孩子们”带去学做爆炸物，说不进行爆炸活动不行。
木塔里甫·哈斯木被带到了本·拉丹的营地，当时本·拉丹正好在场，“我没有和他问候，只是站在离他五六米处远望着”。
塔利班向他们提供武器，有时为了配合训练，还配备一些坦克，也有一般武器。到了“基地”他们首先要学习的科目有：轻武器、跑步、军事演习等。因训练强度太大有些人死了。
“艾山·买合苏木的目的不仅是分裂新疆，还要建立国家。先在本土建国，然后逐渐扩大。”木塔里甫·哈斯木说。
海米提·买买提是一名受过训练的恐怖分子，他说，在这个训练营里，他们用两个多月的时间“学放火、杀人”。
“境外指挥，境内行动，境外培训，境内破坏”，一时间，新疆反恐形势险恶。
在国内建立大量的恐怖训练营地和直接送到阿富汗的塔利班营地中进行训练，恐怖组织可以快速把一名宗教狂热分子制造成恐怖分子。尤其是经过“基地”培训出来的恐怖分子，早已把宝贵的生命看得贱如草芥，声称“对死的渴望，超过对生的渴望”。
“东突”的四个中心
许多人可能至今仍对上世纪90年代发生在乌鲁木齐的公共汽车炸弹事件记忆犹新。新疆社会科学院中亚研究所所长潘志平告诉记者：“当时大家都比较紧张。不敢坐公共汽车，上车都比较小心，如果看到哪个手提包没有主人的话，就会小心、警惕。”
不过，那时却很少有人知道，在新疆，中国与恐怖主义的战斗已经开始。
上世纪90年代是中国面临恐怖主义威胁最严重的时期。1999年，在国庆50周年之后的两个月，渐成气候的“东突”分裂组织在土耳其的伊斯坦布尔召开会议，确立了暴力夺权的方针，并计划实施恐怖战等。
这绝不是说说而已，“东突”分裂组织很早就融入了国际恐怖主义的“主渠道”。还在“东突”的伊斯坦布尔会议之前，一些组织就已经有计划地借助国际资金走私武器，派遣成员在阿富汗、车臣、克什米尔等地参加实战锻炼———俄罗斯军队和美国军队都分别在车臣、阿富汗抓获过“东突”成员。中国现代国际关系研究院许涛研究员介绍说，“9·11”之后，“基地组织”与塔利班开始在巴基斯坦与阿富汗边界、中亚大规模建立训练营地，大量“东突”人员在其中接受了培训。
其中，最为激进的当属在阿富汗组建的“东突厥斯坦伊斯兰运动”(简称“东伊运”)。在塔利班的阵营内，甚至有一个由“东伊运”组成的“中国营”，全部由来自新疆的约320名恐怖分子组成。2001年2月，本·拉丹恐怖势力与塔利班高层人物在坎大哈又商谈训练“东突”恐怖分子的事宜，决定拨巨款帮助训练“东突”恐怖分子。
据《新疆反恐十年成果展览》资料统计，在整个20世纪90年代，“东突”分裂势力在新疆实施暴力恐怖案件250多起，造成600多人伤亡。在本世纪初中国建立地区性反恐机制之前，中国曾独立抗击恐怖主义近10年。2001年9月11日，当纽约世贸中心轰然倒塌之时，中国境内基本上已无“东突”势力有组织的活动了。
据国务院新闻办公室2002年一份名为《“东突”恐怖势力罪责难逃》的文件显示，中国境内外的“东突”分裂组织有50多个，40多个主要在境外活动。
反恐专家李伟告诉记者，经过这些年的发展，这些组织基本形成了4个活动中心：中亚、土耳其、美国与德国。
中亚的“东突”组织大约有11个，其中有4个直接从事暴力恐怖活动；有约20个在土耳其活动，其中3个训练恐怖分子，组织武装，向中国境内偷运武器；还有3个在巴基斯坦、阿富汗交界处的山区活动，分别从事策反和接应外逃人员，偷运武器，进行政治、宗教渗透；而“东突”的政治组织主要集中在德国。
进行暴力恐怖活动的组织，其训练营地目前主要集中在中亚和巴基斯坦、阿富汗边界地区。巴阿边界一向是国际恐怖主义的老巢，过去就曾有大批“东突”人员在这里接受培训，今天，它的这一功能毫无退化。
而此次被新疆公安机关捣毁的恐怖分子训练基地位于帕米尔高原山区，正靠近中国西部与中亚国家接壤的边境。
新疆曾遭遇暴力恐怖高峰
1990：第一起恐怖事件
“巴仁乡暴乱”是新疆解放40年最为严重的一场武装暴乱，是进入上世纪90年代后发生在新疆的第一起恐怖事件。它是一个信号，也是一个开始。此后，大规模的暴力恐怖活动在上世纪90年代的新疆相继发生。
一辈子生活在巴仁乡的依敏·玉买尔老人，是巴仁乡暴乱事件的见证人，1990年春天，老人觉察到村子里有一种与以往不同的气氛。
有一些人在村民当中串连，强迫信奉伊斯兰教的教民捐钱，并且要求每人“抱经宣誓”，参加一个“党”。参加他们“党”的人，每人至少交50元，其中20元是活动经费，20元购买白球鞋，10元购买刀子。谁不做，这些人就用刀子进行威胁。
操纵这一切的是一个叫则丁·玉素甫的人。1980年代末，则丁·玉素甫到喀什学经，回到巴仁乡后，组建了“东突厥斯坦伊斯兰党”。
这些异常现象引起了阿克陶县委、县政府的注意。当发现公安机关开始调查时，则丁·玉素甫决定提前暴动。4月4日下午，切克村清真寺聚集了200多人。当天18时30分，聚事者开始围攻乡政府。
因为无法对事件的性质作出判断和怕伤及信教的民族群众，所有现场武警都执行着不开枪的命令，尽管已经有多名武警战士被打死，5名武警战士被抓做人质。
直到4时10分，新疆维吾尔自治区党委接到中央批示，事件性质为武装暴乱。武警和公安人员开始还击。则丁·玉素甫被击毙。
1996~1997：“断桥赶汉”系列刺杀行动
22名恐怖分子怀里揣着暴力恐怖计划和暗杀名单千里奔赴各地，计划在斋月的第17天，暗杀24名新疆党政干部和宗教人士，在新疆大范围内制造爆炸骚乱。
1996年5月12日6时30分，是黎明前的最黑暗时刻，70多岁的阿荣汉·阿吉和他的儿子准时出现在喀什羊肠般幽暗的小巷中。每天他都踏着人们酣然的睡梦，在这个时刻前往艾提尕尔清真寺主持太阳出来前的第一次祷告。但是这一天与所有的日子都不同，闪亮的匕首在前面等着他。
阿荣汉·阿吉和他的儿子被救了过来。身中20多刀没有死去，几乎是一个奇迹。在抓获刺杀者进行审讯时，刺杀者说出了当时的矛盾心理：既要完成任务，又因为对宗教领袖阿荣汉·阿吉的敬畏而无法下手。
艾提尕尔清真寺是中国最大的清真寺，具有550年的历史。它是中国伊斯兰文化的中心，主持清真寺的阿吉也被认为是最有学问最能领会宗教教义最德高望重的人。
伊斯兰反对党将这一系列暗杀活动称作“断桥”、“赶汉”，他们将反对其分裂图谋的宗教人士都划为谋杀的范围，借此斩断汉族和少数民族之间的血肉联系。
幸运的是，新疆警方很快就找到了破获该行动的线索，斩断黑名单的暗杀行动。
位于美丽的伊犁河谷的伊宁是新疆天山东部的重镇，来自世界各地的客商云集之地。
1997年2月5日上午9时许，伊宁市的大街上突然冲出一伙人，手举横幅，呼喊口号，沿伊宁市主要街道游行。如滚雪球一样，到了12时许，游行人数从100多人增至千余人。随后，手持棍棒、砖块、刀具的骚乱分子开始了他们的暴力行为。
人民医院门口一对青年夫妇被骚乱分子围住，女的被人在脸上用刀乱割乱划，连踢带踏，当场死亡，男的也被打成重伤。
一位回家探亲的战士途经前进街时，被石头活活砸死。
一位乡文化站的秘书在伊犁街街口被他们用刀捅死后，又被扔进点燃的纸堆里焚烧。
警方调查的结果表明，组织“2·5”骚乱的骨干分子是从喀什、和田分别到达伊宁的，属于“东突厥伊斯兰真主党”，他们到达伊宁后就走街串巷煽动群众，并让群众烧毁身份证、结婚证等政府发放的证件。
■1997：爆炸再袭乌鲁木齐
事隔5年，恐怖分子再一次选择了自治区首府乌鲁木齐，并且将时间选在1997年2月25日，这一天邓小平同志的追悼会在北京举行。
炸弹被精心安放在乌鲁木齐南、北、西、东四个不同的方向，并且是在乌鲁木齐人最多、最集中的地方，所有的炸弹都被定在同一时间爆炸。警方调查发现，炸弹里满满地填充着铁钉子、钢珠、螺帽、螺杆，这些东西被强烈的硝酸炸药喷射出来，威力无异于一颗颗子弹。恐怖分子的冷血和残酷让人震惊。
一位汉族父亲失去了9岁的女儿。当时他的两个可爱的女儿刚刚放学。一声巨响后，整个公共汽车的后部不见了，他的大女儿受了重伤，小女儿当场死亡。
一位维吾尔族的父亲也失去了女儿。9年过去了，他还是不能看女儿的照片，不能听别人说这件事。9年的日子再也没有快乐。
一位回族的父亲失去了儿子。每年的2月25日，夫妇两人整天都不能从床上起来干任何事。
■昆仑山追逃
1992年2月5日发生在乌鲁木齐的爆炸案，告破于1500公里远的喀什。当案件侦破势如破竹时，主要的犯罪嫌疑人已经逃跑，准备从昆仑山口逃向国外。
等新疆警方追捕队伍赶到昆仑山下，嫌犯已经在昆仑山炸山封路之前逃上了昆仑山。怎么办？所有的山路全部已经被堵死了，海拔5000多米，车上不去，人也上不去。直升飞机！乘坐直升机将侦查人员空运到昆仑山！
8月的昆仑山正是积雪融化的季节，恐怖分子也寸步难行。突然山洪暴发，让他们的向导和骆驼被洪水冲走，只好掉头下山，此时正好和追捕的公安民警撞个正着。
荒凉的昆仑山上，突然出现了7个人，侦查员全部都警觉了起来。弯曲的山路仅容一车行驶，侦查员一脚刹车将车停在一个人前面，挡住了去路。
突然到来的警察让7个人愣住了，他们本能地举起手让警察搜身。警察从一个人的口袋里先搜出了一支手枪，再一搜是只军用手榴弹，又搜出一支手枪，突然，“咕咚”一声，一名恐怖分子将警察压倒在地。一边是壁立的高山，一边是深不见底的河水，在海拔四五千米的地方搏斗意味着体能的超强消耗和力不从心。
一名警员二话没说“哗”地打出一梭子子弹。枪声使暴行稍有迟疑，就是这个机会，骚乱被镇了下去。
这场战斗当场击毙犯罪分子2名、活捉5名。1992年“2·5”爆炸案主要罪犯全部落入法网。对于新疆警方来说，这仅仅是开始。
激战：缉枪行动扭转战局
■缉枪行动
缉枪行动的成功，不仅仅瓦解了许许多多酝酿中的阴谋，更重要的是，让新疆警方在反击恐怖主义的行动中掌握了制敌的主动权，扭转了跟着恐怖事件转的被动局面。
1998年4月6日，新疆霍尔果斯口岸，一辆从哈萨克斯坦入境的外籍货运车上，查出苏制军用手枪、冲锋枪、各种口径的子弹等武器。警方随即发出了抓捕偷运武器案的重要疑犯的通缉令。一名境外暴力恐怖分子落网后交代：从2月份至4月份通过运茶叶偷运过一次武器，4月份后又用送羊毛等方式运进过武器。
究竟有多少枪被秘密运送了进来？在这次深挖恐怖分子和其隐藏的枪支的战斗中，公安和武警战士和恐怖分子发生多次激烈的枪战。伊犁地区公安局防暴支队民警龙飞、孔永强、刑警支队民警努尔泰·安尼瓦尔别克就是在缉枪战斗中牺牲的。
1998年4月19日晚，伊犁地区公安局防暴支队一中队一分队队长龙飞受命随防暴队紧急出动，前往围捕“4·6”武器偷运案的暴力恐怖分子。那天一直在下雨。恐怖分子缩在一所土房子里。20日凌晨，龙飞率先翻墙入院，逼近暴徒藏身的房间。就在龙飞破门而入的一刹那，龟缩房内的暴徒开枪了。对射中，龙飞在击伤对方的同时，也被暴徒射出的子弹击中了颈部。
两个月后，1998年6月26日凌晨，伊犁地区公安局防暴支队再一次受命出击，对偷运武器案的暴力恐怖分子藏匿窝点进行统一搜捕。这次迅雷不及掩耳的突袭，打掉了对方的指挥体系，粉碎了对方企图于6月30日在伊犁地区进行恐怖爆炸的计划。但在搜捕过程中，参战民警遭遇恐怖分子的持枪顽抗，战斗中，伊犁地区公安局防暴支队一中队二分队队长孔永强和伊犁地区公安局刑警支队民警努尔泰·安尼瓦尔别克壮烈牺牲。
努尔泰·安尼瓦尔别克牺牲后，他的姐姐发现了弟弟的一本日记，日记上写着：“现在我就要同他们进行坚决的斗争，为维护人民的利益。我是一名警察，我热爱这个职业。”
这是他的最后一篇日记。
龙飞、孔永强、努尔泰·安尼瓦尔别克生前是好朋友。烈士身后，人们将龙飞和孔永强合葬在一起，努尔泰·安尼瓦尔别克按照伊斯兰风俗葬在伊斯兰墓地里，但他们都回到了大地的怀抱，都是人们心目中的英雄。
在艰难而持久的十多年打击之后，在国际恐怖活动给世界带来更大不安定的时候，新疆反而进入了一个稳定与和平的时期。只有战斗在反恐第一线的人，才最为深切地知道，这一切意味着什么，这一切得来的是多么地不容易。
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 