A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 55 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted According to reports, those testimonies might have been extracted through torture. Government Response and made their way to Saudi Arabia to meet Kurban Aji and other persons, to propagate the notion of an independent Xinjiang, to carry out separatist activities and to drum up support. Soon after, Semed and the two other men travelled to Rawalpindi in Pakistan, to meet Uighur students and other young Uighurs engaged in business in that city, preaching to them and urging them to form an organization and to go to Afghanistan to receive training, for the purpose of waging a holy war. In March of that same year, Semed and the other men convened a preparatory meeting of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and, following a division of tasks, Ismail Semed was appointed in charge of military operations. Thereafter, Ismail Semed and the other men continued to develop and expand the organization, establishing military bases, recruiting members, conducting fund-raising and other activities and forging links with Afghan Taliban bases and bases run by Bin Laden, striking an agreement with them on the provision of free training for their jihadists. From May 1997 to January 1998 Semed and his accomplices organized the transport of some 100 Uighur jihadists from Pakistan and the Middle East to the above-mentioned military camps for training. After completing their training, Semed and the others appointed Usman Imat in charge and sent him to take 13 men to Xinjiang to set up workshops to manufacture explosives, to conduct training and to develop