A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 56 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government Response jihadist columns. After arriving in Xinjiang, Usman and the others purchased 1,053 boxes of erbium nitrate, for use in preparing chemicals and other reagents for the manufacture of explosives, and set up explosive manufacturing workshops in Turfan, Hotan and other cities. They trained some 100 men in the use of chemicals and reagents for the manufacture of explosive devices, detonators and blasting fuses and in weapons technology. On 5 December 1997 Semed attended a conference of the formally constituted East Turkestan Islamic Movement, held in Rawalpindi in Pakistan, and was appointed military commander. The conference resolved that the goal of the organization would be to liberate East Turkestan through a holy war and to set in place an Islamic State, and mapped out a strategic plan for the period ahead. In midDecember 1998, Semed and others organized a meeting in Rawalpindi at which they decided to break away from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and form a separate grouping. They deposed their former leader, Hasan Mahsum, assumed control of their members and funds in Afghanistan and started to look for ways of illegally entering Xinjiang, so as to prepare for the conduct of military jihadist activities in that region. On 16 September 2004 the Urumchi intermediate level people’s court commenced hearings on this matter. Given the complexity of this case, it is still under