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Human rights groups and Uighur exile organisations have condemned the reported execution in China of an alleged leader of a Muslim separatist organisation. The Germany based East Turkestan National Congress said it was an attempt to terrorise the Uighur people into submission. The executed man - Ujimamadi Abbas (also known as Shirali) - was convicted by a Chinese court last year of separatist and terrorist activities. A mainland-backed Hong Kong newspaper, Wen Wei Bo, described him as a former leader of the East Turkestan Islamic Jihad Organisation, who was accused of involvement in inciting an anti-Chinese riot in Xinjiang province in 1997. China has blamed bombings and other violence in Xinjiang on Islamic separatist movements. Correspondents say that since the September 2001 attacks on the United States, China has used the guise of fighting terrorism to control restless elements of Xinjiang's Uighur population. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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