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The Role of the International Community in East Turkestan / Prof Dru C. Gladney53 “Exile Group Claims Bomb Blast in Xinjiang,”AFP (Hong Kong), 1 March 1997, FBIS,FTS19970513001183.54 Bombings in Tibet and other “terrorist acts”have been frequently reported in the press, “ExplosionHits Tibet’s Capital After China AnnouncesNew Regional Leader,” Agence FrancePresse (Hong Kong), 9 November 2000, FBIS,CPP20001109000079; “Explosion Hits Tibet’sCapital After China Announces New RegionalLeader,” Agence France Presse (Hong Kong), 9 November2000, FBIS, CPP20001109000079; “LondonOrganization - Migrants’ Shops Bombed inTibet,” AFP (Hong Kong), 27 December 1996,FBIS, FTS19970409001372; “Tibet Blames DalaiLama for Bombing in Lhasa,” Tibet People’sRadio Network (Lhasa), 27 December 1996, FBIS,FTS19970409001370; Che, Kang, “Bomb Explodesin Lhasa, Local Authorities Offer Reward forCapture of Criminals,” Ta Kung Pao (Hong Kong),30 December 1996, FBIS, FTS19970409001371;“Suspect Detained for Bomb Attack on TibetanClinic,” AFP (Hong Kong), 14 January 1999, FBIS,FTS19990114000015; “AFP: Explosion HitsTibet’s Capital after China Announces New RegionalLeader,” Agence France Presse (Hong Kong),9 November 2000, FBIS, CPP20001109000079.56 For a discussion of the various meanings of “jihad”in Islam, see John L. Esposito, 2002. UnholyWar: Terror in the Name of Islam. Oxford:Oxford University Press, Pp. 26-35. For studiesamong Uyghur and other Turkic communities inIstanbul, see Dru C. Gladney, “Relational Alterity:Constructing Dungan (Hui), Uygur, and KazakhIdentities across China, Central Asia, and Turkey”History and Anthropology Vol. 9, No. 2: 445-77,and Ingvar Svanberg, 1989. Kazak Refugees inTurkey: A Study of Cultural Persistence and SocialChange. Stockholm and Uppsala: Almqvist andWiksell International.57 Radio Free Asia, Uyghur service, “Separatist leadervows to target Chinese government (RFA)”, 24January 2003. http://www.rfa.org/service/index.html?service=uyg.58 See the Stratfor report documenting the AfghanPrime Minister’s request for China to open theWakhan corridor, June 11, 2009, “China: AfghanFM Seeks Wakhan Corridor Supply Route”.(http://www.stratfor.com/sitrep/20090611_china_afghan_fm_seeks_wakhan_corridor_supply_route).55 See John Pomfret, “China Executes TibetanMonk for Alleged Bombings” Washington PostForeign Service Tuesday, January 28, 2003; RadioFree Asia reported that the government is silencingany reporting on the execution: http://www.rfa.org/service/article.html?service=can&encoding=2&id=98250.501