Bo Wang
Bo Wang,[1][2] also known by his nom de guerre Yusuf al-Sini (Arabic: يوسف الصيني, romanized: Yūsuf al-Ṣīnī, lit. 'Yusuf of China'), is a Chinese jihadist who participated in the First Libyan Civil War and the Syrian Civil War.
Career
[edit]His early life is unknown. He converted to Islam in Indonesia in 2009[3] (he claimed that he converted to Islam after reading the works of Muslim Brotherhood leader Sayyid Qutb on the Internet), and then went to Libya to study Arabic.[1] When the Libyan civil war broke out in 2011, he was working for a Chinese company in Libya. He did not comply with the Chinese government's order for its citizens to evacuate Libya, and he joined the Libyan anti-government rebels[1] and threw himself into the Libyan civil war. In a speech in Tripoli on March 18 of that year, he publicly condemned Muammar Gaddafi's attack on Benghazi.[3] After the "birth of the new Libya", he went to Syria to fight against Bashar al-Assad's government forces. According to a video uploaded to Youtube on March 17, 2013, Bo Wang warned the government of China in Mandarin Chinese, urging it to abandon its support for Bashar al-Assad, otherwise "all Islamic countries in the world will unite to impose economic sanctions on the government of China."[2][1]
See also
[edit]- Yan Liangbin: A volunteer soldier from the People's Republic of China who joined the local Maoist guerrillas and participated in the Nepal Civil War
- Zhao Rui: The first volunteer soldier from the People's Republic of China to be confirmed dead and whose name was made public since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine War
- Huang Lei: A British Chinese volunteer soldier who joined the Syrian Kurdish militia "People's Defense Units" to fight against the Islamic State in 2015
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Jacob Zenn (2014-10-10). "An Overview of Chinese Fighters and Anti-Chinese Militant Groups in Syria and Iraq". Jamestown Foundation.
- ^ a b Edward Wong (2013-03-29). "An Unlikely Jihadist, Denouncing Assad in Mandarin". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Nigel Ash (2013-09-03). "Vanished Chinese hero prompts demo at Beijing's embassy". Libya Herald.