ETIM's attack calls for close security cooperation

Kyrgyzstan's national security committee has established that the Aug 30 suicide bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Bishkek was ordered by "Uygur terrorist groups active in Syria" and affiliated to the Nusra Front, and that the suicide bomber, also Uygur, was a member of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement in Syria.

Those who have stubbornly refused to even acknowledge the existence of the ETIM now have to face the truth.

The Syria-based Nusra Front, which recently renamed itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, is deemed a terrorist organization by both the United States and Russia. The ETIM, dedicated mainly to the separation of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was listed by the United Nations as a terrorist organization in 2002, and certified by China's Ministry of Public Security as one of the four East Turkestan terrorist groups in 2003.