|
|
PEOPLE
OF East Turkistan DO NOT WANT MORE THAN THE FREEDOM
,INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEMOCRACY
WE
HERE IN THIS SITE want to let all the free
world and all human rights supporters and all of
our Muslim brothers to know what happening in our country EAST TURKISTAN,Yes,
our country is not part of China ,it is not xinjiang but it is known
through thousaMain Heading Goes Here Subheading Goes Herends of years as East Turkistan or
Uyguristan , it is known as The original land of Turk all over
the history ,Yes we fight to get our freedom for our country
,which suffers now under
the occupation of Chinese and
face demographic marginalization as main strategy of red China ,to
flood Eastren Turkistan with settlers from all-over far China
(Han ethnic group) until the the Uygur , with their
language,religion, and traditions are just overwhelmed ,so
as to say after that ,this is a Chinese land ,In 1950 there
were only 200,000 Han Chinese in all the Eastren
Turkistan ,but now ,there are more than 6 million Han Chinese
, and Red China policy continues to bring more Chinese Han to
the area , hundreds of them daily arriving ,drawn
by housing and jobs incentives that in practice are only to
ethnic Chinese ,
US
Congress Holds Hearing on China's Human Rights Situation
Urgent
appeal to the International Community to condemn the execution of Uighurs
by Chinese authorities in East Turkestan
Any
Uygur from Eas Turkistan wish to say to the Free World
Community the following facts:
China does not want the world to know about East Turkistan. In fact,
China does not even want the world to pay much attention to Xinjiang. It
wishes this part of the world to stay invisible -- while the Chinese
imprison, torture and all too often kill my countrymen with no justifiable
cause, while the Chinese poison the environment, while the Chinese use my
nation as a dumping ground for untold thousands of Laogai -- the world
knows the word better as Gulag -- prisoners.
According to Beijing, I am Chinese. But, look at me.
I am not Chinese. I do not speak their language. I am connected through
thousands of years of history to the Turkic family of nations.
I am actually a Uyghur -- a race that reaches back
far before the time of Ghenghis Khan, to the time of the Huns who
Westerners know as the people who came from Asia to the Roman Empire.
My language is Uyghur - Turkic.
Indeed, my language is the root language for the group known to scholars
as the Altaic languages. My
religion is Islam. I
ask you to look at me and to listen to me and to know my culture.
I am not Chinese. I am Uyghur.
The Beijing authorities do not
want you to hear these words or the words of my friends here today. They
hope to suppress the true identity of Eastern Turkistan and make it Han.
They hope to wipe out my culture, to deny my people their heritage, to
deny them the most basic rights which Americans take for granted.
Beijing will tell you that there
are 8 million Uyghurs. We know that the figure is much higher: as many as
25 million. It is only one of many truths that the Chinese do not want the
world to know. Let
me tell you some of these truths. Eastern Turkistan was an
independent state for many centuries. It was invaded and conquered by the
Qing Empire in 1759. The Turkic people rebelled numerous times -- by one
count 42 times. Finally, in 1864, the Turkic people succeeded in chasing
the Manchus from their homeland. They founded an independent state which
had diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, and Great
Britain. China returned,
however, in 1877, again conquering my homeland. In 1884, China declared
Eastern Turkistan to be China's 19th province, renaming it
"Sinkiang." This means "new territory" or "new
dominion." Eventually, the province became known as Xinjiang.
After Sun Yat-sen and the Nationalists took power in
1911, East Turkistanis again rebelled. The Qumul Rebellion led to the
creation of the Eastern Turkistani Islamic Republic in 1933. A second
rebellion led to the creation of a free East Turkistan in 1944. These and
other efforts were crushed by China, but they demonstrate the persistent
and deep belief of my people that they are not part of China.
Rule under the Communists has been particularly harsh. My land has become
a dungeon for its people since 1949. Half a million Eastern Turkistanis
have been killed. Hundreds of thousands have been sent to labor camps
under the worst imaginable conditions. Three hundred thousand have fled to
neighboring countries. China has attempted to destroy the
Eastern Turkistani culture as well as its people. Eastern Turkistanis are
forced to dress like Chinese, to speak, write, read, eat, sing, and dance
like Chinese. China is importing millions of Han -- and at the same time
forcing Eastern Turkistani families to limit their number of children.
Authorities often forcibly sterilize parents and abort the unborn young.
The authorities are also systematically attacking religion. As the Wall
Street Journal has reported, Beijing has barred Muslims from prayer as
part of their crackdown known as Strike Hard. Normally this repression is
undocumented, but my organization has video tape of China's crushing of a
1995 rebellion in the city of Khotan.Today, Eastern Turkistan is one of
the poorest parts of China. This is ironic since the land is rich with
natural resources including uranium, platinum, gold, diamonds, iron, and
silver. Geologists estimate that the province contains 1,600 billion tons
of coal. One third of China's oil reserves are believed to be within
Eastern Turkistan. In 1994, the Washington Post reported that "oil in
China's Tarim Basin [the southern part of Eastern Turkistan] may contain
nearly as much crude as Saudi Arabia." China's
desire to exploit Eastern Turkistan's natural resources has been matched
only by its desire to use the land as an environmental dumping ground.
Most devastating has been China's nuclear testing program, centered at Lop
Nor in Eastern Turkistan. No one knows exactly how many have been
deformed or killed by China's nuclear activities. Some estimate 200,000
dead. What is clear is that the Lop Nor region has rates of cancer far
higher than the rest of China. All these are truths about my homeland that
China does not want known. Yet, we who believe in the future of Eastern
Turkistan believe these truths will be known, and that Chinese rule of our
land will end. As we have been forced into exile, our movement for a
free Eastern Turkistan has become global. While we know the struggle
for freedom is ours to win, we turn to the world community and to the
great democracies like the United States for support.
.
NEWS HEAD LINES
gChina
arrests 25 uygurs Two
killed 4 wounded / Kashgar
clashes / CRACK DOWN
AGAINST MUSLIMS IN EAST TURKISTAN
60
killed in Urumqi explosion
/Zia
Samedi/UHRC`s e-mail action to BP
Amoco / Uighurs
conference held in Estonia /
CNN came and covered our demonstration / UN Rights chief , Mary Robinson in
China / Mud
volcano / 27 Chinese persecution of Uighur
Muslims / China claims victory against Muslim
rebels / PetroChina finds new oil field in northwest / The
consequences of nuclear tests in ET
/ China activly integrating its
westren regions
Also read these following
general subjects
[1][2][3][4] [5] [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
|
|
|