The East Turkistan Organization is a name for a Uyghur separatist group.[1][2][3][4] According to Ludmila Kondrashova, a Russian historian, the organization has a militant wing. She reported that the organization had 51 branches outside of China: 19 in central Asia, 14 in West Asia and 18 in Europe. She reported that the organization is funded by the drug trade, and by donations from other organizations hostile to China. She asserted more than 200 Uyghurs received military training in Afghan training camps run by al Qaeda.
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Ludmila Kondrashova (2002-01-01). "Central Asia: International Cooperation and Security Issues". Far Eastern Affairs. pp. 132–136. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
The Eastern Turkestan Organization, composed mainly of Uigur separatists living outside the borders of the PRC, has as its goal the detachment of Xinjiang from the PRC and the creation on its territory of an independent state of Eastern Turkestan as a continuation of the eponymous state that existed for several months in 1933.
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- ^ Lutz Kleveman (August 28, 2004). The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia. Grove/Atlantic. ISBN 978-0-8021-4172-9. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
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Derek S. Reveron, Jeffrey Stevenson Murer (2006-08-17). Flashpoints in the war on terrorism. Routledge. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-415-95491-4. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
East Turkistan .