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1. DEADLY ARMED CLASHES REPORTED IN
KASHGAR(some more details)
2. TARIM JAILS OVERCROWDED WITH POLITICAL
PRISONERS
3. A MEMORIAL TO UIGHURS IN A TURKISH CITY
From: Jack Churchward /trinley@churchward.com/ February
25,2001/ Produced by East Turkistan Information
Center
http://www.uygur.org/
In this
issue:
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1.
DEADLY ARMED CLASHES REPORTED IN KASHGAR
[East Turkistan Information
Center, 2/24/01]
Several armed clashes took place in Kashgar in the last
ten days.
According to ETIC sources, East Turkistani pro-independence
fighters
stabbed to death a Chinese people's court officer, Muhemmet, in
Kashgar's
Tokkuzak county about ten days ago. Muhemmet's wife, who works in a
family
planning office of Pahtekli village, was seriously
wounded.
After the incident, the attackers retreated to mountains in
Atush prefecture
about 40 kilometers from Kashgar.
Kashgar's Morning
Newspaper reported that, on February 20 at 7 a.m., a 26
years old police
officer named Fingtao was shot into a head and killed,
whereas several more
police officers were wounded in an armed clash with
the attackers. Among the
wounded, there were a few Uighur policemen including
Arkin, a brother of the
famous female Uighur singer Dilber Yunus.
On February 22, an official
funeral of Fingtao was given in the building of
Kashgar's social security
department. The funeral was attended by Kashgar
city government officials,
high ranking police and military officers, various
governmental officials,
and numerous workers and residents of Kashgar.
According to the Chinese
information agency, the head of Xinjiang Uighur
Autonomous Region's social
security department, Jang Shuning, awarded Fingtao
posthumously a title of
the first degree hero.
On February 22, there was another serious armed
clash in Kashgar's Maralbeshi
county. In Kashgar's New City county,
unknown men killed a Chinese boy.
On February 23, unknown men left a
package wrapped in a newspaper with three
bullets inside in front of the
building of Kashgar's New City county.
The situation in Kashgar is
reported to be very tense, and the city is
apparently under curfew.
2.
TARIM JAILS OVERCROWDED WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
[By Alaqagha, East
Turkistan Information Center, 2/21/01]
The largest prison in Tarim is
overcrowded with political prisoners, and
the Chinese authorities are forced
to move some of the inmates from this
prison to a labor camp in Saksantam of
Shahyar county. In recent years,
the communist Chinese government
is strengthening its repressive actions
against Uighurs in East Turkistan.
Uighurs are being thrown into jails for
taking part in Islamic religious
activities, and they are accused in
various criminal activities.
3. A
MEMORIAL TO UIGHURS IN A TURKISH CITY
[By Erkin Tarim, East Turkistan
Information Center, 2/22/01]
A Turkish city Tarsus is considered an
important point on the
famous Silk Road. In old days, Muslim pilgrims from
East Turkistan
traveled to Mecca passing on their way Tarsus and
Chukurova.
In 1918, 26 Uighurs led by Haji Yoldash reached Tarsus
on their way
to Mecca. At that time, Tarsus was occupied by the French army,
and
the Turks were fighting against the occupants. The Uighurs
joined
the people of Tarsus in their fight against the French, and 16 of
them
were killed in the battles and buried in a local cemetery.
In
1994 Burhaniddin Kocaman, a mayor of Tarsus, decreed to rebury
remains of the
fallen Uighur Turkistanians to a special place and
to construct a memorial
minaret for the Turkistanians. Today two flags
with a crescent and a star,
the red Turkish and the sky blue East
Turkistanian flags, are flying over the
minaret reminding people of
brotherhood of the two
peoples.
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expressed in the newsletter do not necessarily represent those
of East
Turkistan Information Center. Credits must be given to all
sources
cited.
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An
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cultural
and economic developments in East Turkistan (Uighurstan), and to
the Uighur
people related issues. East Turkistan and Uighurstan are the
names used by
the Uighurs, an indigenous people of the region, for their
motherland located
in what is at present Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
of People's Republic
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The main goal of the editorial board of WUNN is to bring true
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The first issue of WUNN was
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