ETIM back knife attack at Chinese railway station

Amid new attacks in China's restive Xinjiang province, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), heading a violent separatist campaign in the area, has voiced its support for a horrific stabbing spree at a railway station that left 33 people dead.
China's Foreign Ministry said that the ETIM has released a video online and expressed support for the March 1 attack in Kunming city, capital of Yunnan province in southwest China.
"It has fully exposed the terrorist nature of the ETIM," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a daily news briefing.
"Terrorism is a common enemy of mankind. Fighting against the ETIM is a key component of the international anti-terrorism war," Hong said.

His comments came as police in China's restive western region of Xinjiang shot dead an armed assailant for attacking an officer, who later died.
Police did not identify the ethnicity of the assailant, but it was the latest in a series of attacks pointing to growing unrest in the sprawling region.

The ETIM, listed by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the Tian'anmen attack in October in which five people were killed and 40 others injured.
Officials believe that the March 1 attack that left 33 people dead and 143 others injured was also carried out by ETIM separatists.

Xinjiang, where native Muslim Uygurs are opposing the settlements of Hans from mainland China, witnessed several such attacks in the recent past.