Unknown stabs in the heart of China, expert expects more attacks
Tuesday 23/October/2018 - 03:30 PM
Ayat Ezz and Islam Muhammad
The official statement issued by the Chinese police on Sunday, October 21,
2018, revealed a knife attack in a public place early morning in the province
of Hebei, in the northeast of the country, killing three and wounding a fourth.
The statement was a warning of the renewal of the attacks of knives that
Chinese cities exposed. The Chinese people recalled a series of sharp attacks
that took place in recent years against the backdrop of ethnic conflicts in
Xinjiang province.
The police said in a statement that they were looking for the
"attacker" and published several pictures of a suspect. The statement
said he was a resident of the area. Police attached to its report the pictures
of a car they said he used to escape.
The cause of the attacks .. A special vision
For his part, Mokhtar al-Ghobashi, a political analyst and vice president of
the Arab Center for Political and Strategic Studies, suggested that the
incident in China yesterday was a result of the repression, according to his
description, practiced by the Chinese government against Muslim minorities in
the country. He told the Reference that these minorities feel neglected and
marginalized, and did not find an echo of the need for other countries, and it
is also likely to take revenge on the Government of Beijing itself, which is
very dangerous to the parties, the government and minorities together.
The political analyst and vice president of the Arab Center for Political and
Strategic Studies predicted that in the coming days China will see more similar
operations, stressing the possibility of reaching a solution through
international sympathy with the Chinese Muslim minority.
In 2014 and 2015, there were several attacks with knives, targeting train
stations in a number of cities such as Guangzhou, Kunming and others, and the
government quickly attributed them to the Uighurs, against the background of
the ethnic tension in the province in the west of the country.
The attacks came a few days after the announcement by Shuhrat Zucker, head of
the Xinjiang provincial government, that the security situation had greatly
improved, and that there had been no terrorist attacks in the last 21 months as
a result of the government's counterterrorism policy. This, he added, was a
result of repressive measures against the Muslim minority, especially after the
United Nations called on the Chinese government to end its security campaign
against the Uighurs and to seek the fate of up to one million people, most of
them held in large camps in Xinjiang.
The recent revelations have provoked widespread international outrage and
international condemnations of Chinese government behavior, including
restrictions on the performance of Islamic rites in the region, while Beijing
justified its actions as "necessary to combat terrorism and uproot
it."
