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On June 22, 2013, about 16 militants, reportedly dressed in Gilgit Scouts uniforms, stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, and killed 10 climbers and a local guide. The climbers were from various countries, including Ukraine, China, Slovakia, Lithuania and Nepal.〔 A Chinese citizen managed to escape the assailants, and a member of the group from Latvia happened to be outside the camp during the attack.〔 The attack happened at the base camp on Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world.〔 The mountain is popular among trekkers and mountaineers from June to August because of the moderate weather conditions.〔 In November 2013, many of the assailants involved in the attack were arrested and tried under the Anti-Terrorist Act. According to the Senate's Standing Committee on Foreign Relations, the original motive of the militants had not been to kill the tourists, but kidnap them for ransom. ==The attack== On June 22, 2013, at 10.00 p.m. local time, about 16 attackers entered the base camp, where foreign tourists who come to climb the Nanga Parbat mountains usually stay. The attackers then opened fire, killing ten tourists. One was an American with dual Chinese citizenship; three came from Ukraine, two from Slovakia, one other from China and one from Lithuania; one a Sherpa from Nepal.〔 The attackers had reportedly gained access to this remote location by abducting two Pakistani guides. The site of the attack is located above sea-level and can only be approached via foot or horseback. According to a Diamer police official, Muhammad Nabi, one of the abducted guides, was killed during the shootout, while the other was found and detained for questioning. He said that there was general misinformation in the media regarding the Pakistani killed. Nabi stated that the guide of the expedition was a Nepalese by the name of Sona Sherpa and not the Pakistani guide as portrayed by the local media. Zhang Jingchuan, a Chinese mountaineer who survived the assault, described his ordeal in a press-conference held at Kunming in the Yunnan province of China. He recalled the attack being sudden. He said that he was shot at and a bullet flew over his head. After that, he stated he got out and started running blindly towards a trench away. Upon reaching the trench he jumped in and stayed there for 40 minutes. After that he sneaked out and made his way back to the cabin, where he called the police from a satellite phone. According to Zhang, a helicopter arrived nine hours after the incident, during which time he had grabbed an ice-axe and had moved to higher ground. Zhang Jingchuan also noted that before shooting the climbers, the attackers collected the climbers' passports and took their photos.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/06/28/news/national/chinese-survivor-of-nanga-parbat-attack-speaks-of-ordeal/ )〕〔(Massacre in the Himalayas, August 2013 )〕〔(Pakistan attack survivor back home, June 27, 2013 )〕 Sher Khan, a Pakistani climber who survived the attack, revealed more details. According to his report, the terrorists first made the climbers give them money, satellite phones and radio sets, then tied the climbers' hands with ropes. After that, they asked the climbers to turn their faces in the opposite direction and shot them immediately without any explanation.〔(Climbers Recount Murder on Famous Pakistan Peak, BBC, June 28, 2013 )〕 The perpetrators identified themselves as "al-Qaida" and "Taliban". Some were teenagers, while others were in their twenties and the leader was older. "They were shouting God is Great, long live Islam and long live Osama bin Laden", Sher Khan remembered. "They kept shouting as they left. I remember one shouting: "this is revenge for Sheikh bin Laden"."〔("How Taliban brought new terror to Pakistan's Killer Mountain", The Guardian, July 23, 2013 )〕 This shooting was the first time an attack on mountaineers occurred in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, which was generally considered free from militancy apart from sporadic attacks on the minority Shi'ite Muslims. According to later information, the terrorists planned to kidnap Chen Honglu (the dual Chinese-American citizen) to trade him for a Taliban commander in Afghanistan. As the attack unfolded in the Nanga Parbat base camp, Chen burst out of his tent and tackled one of the militants using martial arts techniques. The militant, named Mujeeb, panicked and shot him, destroying the main purpose of the mission and infuriating the terrorist commanders. The remaining climbers were then tied up and shot. The attackers then walked for five hours to a remote village where they buried their uniforms and had breakfast before walking on to another village and dispersing.〔("Chinese-American prime target in Nanga Parbat massacre", The Express Tribune, June 29, 2014 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2013 Nanga Parbat massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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