Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun east_turkistan_islamic_movement

1 sense of east turkistan islamic movement

Sense 1
East Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movement -- (a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)