A man who participated in a violent attack in northwestern China this month said he had been recruited to participate in a “holy war”, according to a rare confession broadcast by state media at the weekend.
The suspect, identified as Muer Zhati, told China Central Television he had joined two other assailants in an attack on a chess hall in Xinjiang, the northwestern “autonomous region” where violent assaults by Muslim Uighurs occur increasingly frequently and have spread to other areas of China over recent months.
CCTV said Muer Zhati’s confession had come “too late – severe legal punishment awaits him”.
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