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}}'''Hasan Mahsum''' (]: {{unicode|'''ھەسەن مەخسۇم'''}}/Hesen Mexsum; ]: '''艾山·买合苏木''', ]: {{unicode|'''Àishān Măihésūmù'''}}; also transliterated: '''Hassan Maksum'''; born in ], ], ], ] in 1964 and died in ] on ] 2003), also known as '''Abu-Muhammad al-Turkestani''' and '''Ashan Sumut''', founded and led the ], an ] affiliated with ], until the ] shot and killed him in a counter-terrorism operation on 2 October 2003. He is an ].<ref name=DEATH> BBC News</ref> |
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}}'''Hasan Mahsum''' (]: {{unicode|'''ھەسەن مەخسۇم'''}}/Hesen Mexsum; ]: '''艾山·买合苏木''', ]: {{unicode|'''Àishān Măihésūmù'''}}; also transliterated: '''Hassan Maksum'''; born in ], ], ], ] in 1964 and died in ] on ] 2003), also known as '''Abu-Muhammad al-Turkestani''' and '''Ashan Sumut''', founded and led the ], an ] affiliated with ], until the ] shot and killed him in a counter-terrorism operation on 2 October 2003. He is an ].<ref name=DEATH> BBC News</ref> |
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Mahsum, a native of Shule (Kunixar) County, became involved with the ] early in his life; in his late 20s, he was already a lecturer at a training camp in ], preaching ] and advocating the use of violence against Chinese authorities.<ref name="Shichor">{{cite journal|last=Sichor|first=Yitzhak|title=|volume=4|issue=2|date=2006|pages=pp.89-108|journal=China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly|publisher=Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program|accessdate=2006-12-15|title=Fact and Fiction: A Chinese Documentary on Eastern Turkestan Terrorism|url=http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/docs/CEF/Quarterly/May_2006/Shichor.pdf}}</ref> He was arrested in October 1993 by the Chinese police for terrorist activities and sentenced to three years of re-education through labour.<ref name="RenminRibao"/> After fleeing China in 1997, Mahsum lived in Afghanistan and Pakistan; he held an Afghan passport issued by the ]. In early 1999, he was said to have met with ], who offered him US$300,000 of financial assistance for the East Turkestan Islamic Movement in the following year;<ref name="Raman">{{cite paper|author=Raman. B|url=http://www.saag.org/papers13/paper1232.html|title=Paper no. 1232: Explosions in Xinjiang|date=2005-01-27|accessdate=2006-12-15|publisher=South Asia Analysis Group}}</ref> Mahsum himself denied any connection with bin Laden.<ref name="">{{cite paper|author=Mackerras, Colin|title=Ethnicity in China: The Case of Xinjiang|url=http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dnschmid/mackerras.htm|publisher=Harvard Asia Quarterly|date=Winter 2004|accessdate=2006-12-15}}</ref> The Chinese government has accused him of directing a series of violent terrorist activities including robbery and murder in ] on ], ] and violent murders in the ] region on ], ];<ref name="PRCMFA">{{cite press release|title=Spokesperson's remarks on the Death of Hasan Mahsum, Head of the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement"|url=http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/fyrth/t57039.htm|publisher=Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America|date=2003-10-24|accessdate=2006-12-15}}</ref> it is believed that these attacks were actually carried out by an operative of his named Mutalif Kasim.<ref name="Shichor"/> |
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