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)