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Germans Probe China
Terror Cell Claims
DW - German investigators are expected in China to
examine allegations from Beijing that exiles from
China's Uighur minority are planning terrorist
activities from German soil, the weekly Der Spiegel
said in its edition to appear on Monday. Germany has
so far refused to follow up China's demand that it ban
two Uighur groups based on its territory and ban its
leaders, on the grounds that it lacks enough evidence,
according to the magazine. The Muslim,
Turkish-speaking Uighurs advocate separatism for the
Islamic, northwestern Xinjiang region of China and
Beijing has already classified four Uighur groups as
terrorists. Two German investigators are due to travel
to China to consult the evidence collected by the
Chinese authorities, the weekly reported. German
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder this week visited China
for the sixth time in as many years, as China and
Germany step up their cooperation both economically
and politically.
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