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EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does East Turkestan Islamic Movement mean?
• EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT (noun)
The noun EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT has 1 sense:
1. a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
Familiarity information: EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EAST TURKESTAN ISLAMIC MOVEMENT (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
East Turkestan Islamic Movement; East Turkistan Islamic Movement
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)
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