China Claims To Have Foiled 5 Olympics Terror Plots

July 10, 2008

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Chinese security forces claimed today to have foiled five “terrorist” plots against the Olympics amid an intensifying pre-games crackdown that has seen police kill five Uighur Muslim suspects and deport a British-Tibetan woman in the past two days.

Human rights groups expressed scepticism about the claims, saying the authorities were using the Olympic threat to crack down on innocent victims and peaceful critics of Chinese communist rule.

The state-run Xinhua news agency also reported today that 82 people have been detained in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang for planning terrorist attacks during next month’s Olympics.

Chen Zhuangwei, the police chief of Urumqi - the provincial capital of the far western region - was quoted as saying his forces had also detained “66 gang members of the ‘three evil forces’ of terrorism, separatism and extremism, and destroyed 41 training bases of ‘holy war’ from January to June”. Few details were provided.

On Tuesday, police shot and killed five people in Xinjiang who were accused of similar crimes, although they were armed only with knives. In April, the authorities said they had uncovered a plot to kidnap athletes and carry out suicide attacks. State media early reported that police foiled an attempt to hijack a plane.

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