中國駐吉使館爆炸案系東伊運成員所爲

Kyrgyzstan state security has confirmed that Syria-based Uighur militants were behind the suicide bombing of the Chinese embassy in Bishkek last Tuesday.

吉爾吉斯斯坦國家安全部門確認，上週二發生在該國首都比什凱克的自殺式爆炸是由大本營在敘利亞的維吾爾武裝分子策劃的。

The driver of the car that crashed into the Chinese embassy gates late on August 30th, injuring three Chinese embassy staff, was an ethnic Uighur with a Tajik passport named Zoir Kahlilov, the GKNB security service said in a statement on Tuesday night, Reuters reported.

8月30日下午，一輛汽車闖入中國駐吉爾吉斯斯坦大使館大門併發生爆炸，導致中方三名使館工作人員受傷。據路透社(Reuters)報道，週二晚吉爾吉斯斯坦國家安全委員會(GKNB)在一份聲明中表示，該車司機爲一持塔吉克斯坦護照的維族人，名叫佐伊爾•哈利洛夫(Zoir Khalilov)。

The GKNB said Mr Kahlilov is a member of the East Turkestan Islamic movement, and that the attack was ordered by Uighur terrorist groups active in Syria and financed by emissaries of Nusra Front, a terrorist group that split from al-Qaeda in July and has since renamed itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.

GKNB表示，哈利洛夫是東突厥斯坦伊斯蘭運動（East Turkestan Islamic Movement，簡稱：東伊運）成員，這次襲擊由活躍在敘利亞的維吾爾恐怖組織下令實施，由努斯拉陣線(Nusra Front)的代表提供資金支持。努斯拉陣線是一個今年7月從基地組織(al-Qaeda)中分離出來的恐怖組織，分離後已更名爲征服沙姆陣線(Jabhat Fateh al-Sham)。

The Kyrgyzstan confirmation of the suicide bombing as a planned attack makes this the first time a Chinese embassy in Central Asia has been targeted by a terrorist organisation.

吉爾吉斯斯坦確認此次自殺式爆炸爲有計劃的襲擊事件，這是中國駐中亞國家大使館首次成爲恐怖組織的襲擊目標。

Fear of injury to Chinese citizens and business interests in unstable regions — including Central Asia where China’s presence is increasing through its One Belt One Road initiative — is driving a shift in Beijing’s foreign policy, gradually eroding a long-held policy of non-involvement.

由於擔心中國公民及商業利益在不穩定地區（其中包括中亞地區，中國通過一帶一路計劃正日益擴大在中亞的存在）受到傷害，北京方面的對外政策正發生變化，中國長期堅持的不干涉政策逐漸受到削弱。

China recently agreed to help train government troops in Syria, for example.

舉例來說，中國近期同意幫助訓練敘利亞政府軍。

The Chinese government has long blamed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a Muslim separatist group, for violent attacks carried out in China by Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking mostly Muslim people, who live largely in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.

長期以來，中國政府一直將維族人在中國實施的暴力襲擊歸咎於穆斯林分離主義組織東伊運。維族人大多爲穆斯林，主要生活在位於中國西北的新疆。維吾爾語屬於突厥語族。

Recognised by the US Treasury as a terrorist group in 2002 — at a time of increased China-US antiterrorism activity in the wake of 9/11 — the ETIM has slipped into obscurity in recent years, and some experts on Xinjiang had questioned whether it still operates in the region.

2002年，美國財政部承認東伊運爲恐怖組織——當時，中美兩國在9•11後加強了反恐活動。最近幾年，東伊運的知名度大不如前，部分新疆問題專家懷疑其是否還在該地區活動。

Five Kyrgyz citizens were detained as potentially complicit in the attack, and arrest warrants have been issued for an explosives specialist from southern Kyrgyzstan and two Kyrgyz citizens living in Turkey, the GKNB said.

GKNB表示，它拘留了五名吉爾吉斯斯坦公民，原因是他們可能參與了此次襲擊；另外，它還簽發了對該國南部一名炸藥專家及兩名現居土耳其的吉爾吉斯斯坦公民的逮捕令。

Kyrgyzstan’s long, porous boarder with southern Xinjiang has historically made it a thoroughfare for Uighurs who wish to leave China to join the Islamic terrorist organisations in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

吉爾吉斯斯坦與新疆的邊境線漫長而易於穿越，歷來就是那些想離開中國加入敘利亞、阿富汗及其他地區伊斯蘭恐怖組織的維族人的一大通道。

China’s increasing presence in the region makes Chinese individuals increasingly salient targets for attacks from terrorist organisations.

中國在該地區不斷擴大的存在，令中國人日益成爲恐怖組織的主要襲擊目標。

In another first, Isis held for ransom then executed a Chinese citizen last year.

在另一起破天荒的事件中，伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯蘭國(ISIS)於去年綁架了一名中國公民索要贖金，後來將其處決。