NEFA Foundation: Translated Communiques from the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP)
By Evan Kohlmann
The NEFA Foundation has released English translations of a series of recent communiques issued by the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) over the past year. The TIP is a splinter faction of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (TIP) primarily based in Waziristan and elsewhere in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is primarily comprised of Uighur Muslims from western regions of China-who have sworn to wage war against the Chinese government and have carried out scattered shooting and bombing attacks. The translated communiques include threats from the TIP to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and an explanation of how the TIP's conflict with China fits into the larger global "war on terrorism."
The translations can be downloaded from the NEFA Foundation website.
