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Head of Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: 'East Turkestan [i.e. Xinjiang] Is an Indivisible Part of the Islamic Nation, and We Won't Let the Oppression Pass in Silence'

The "Muslim Uzbekistan" website reports that Tahir Yuldashev, head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), has released an audio recording in which he vows to champion the Uighurs against Chinese oppression. Yuldashev, whose group is now based in Waziristan, also denied any IMU involvement in the attacks in Uzbekistan's Andijan region in late May. (A rival Uzbek group, the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), claimed responsibility for these attacks in a video issued shortly after the events.)

Tahir Yuldashev, commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

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