China's ethnic Muslim Uygurs training for Jihad?
Chinese authorities claim that 'hundreds possibly thousands' of Uygurs from the eastern province of&nbsp;Xinjiang have left the country illegally, with many ending up in jihadist training camps in Syria and Iraq. The so-called&nbsp;East Turkestan Islamic Movement ("ETIM") has been responsible for a number of attacks in China over the past three years, but many foreign observers question if there is any real cohesion in the group, or whether it is a figment of the CCP's imagination and an excuse for making arrests and crack-downs. &nbsp;The deportation of 109 Uygurs from Thailand back to China last week has sparked concerns as to their future well-being.
A still from CCTV footage purportedly of deportees from Thailand taken off an airplane by police at an unidentified location in China this month. Photo: Reuters