The Beijing Olympics and China’s Militant Groups

AS CHINA prepares to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there are concerns that international terrorists, as well as local minority militant groups mainly located in the Xinjiang region, will seize the opportunity to mount attacks or small-scale skirmishes. The Olympics would also be an ideal event for...

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Tác giả chính: Pereire, Kenneth George
Tác giả khác: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Định dạng: Commentary
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: 2016
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Truy cập trực tuyến:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82402
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39937
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Tóm tắt:AS CHINA prepares to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics, there are concerns that international terrorists, as well as local minority militant groups mainly located in the Xinjiang region, will seize the opportunity to mount attacks or small-scale skirmishes. The Olympics would also be an ideal event for terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda to display their intent and capability in full view of the international media and fuel their cause with the oxygen of publicity. There is a precedent: the 1972 Munich Olympics.