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1. Chinese government uses the case of Tursunjan Emet as an excuse to strengthen its fight against the religious activities, and even to extend the oppression to the national literature and education

Eastern Turkistan Information Center, our correspondent Bugda reports from Homeland, February 21:

Dear compatriots, as you well know, on January 1, 2002 the Congress was called up in the in the capital of Eastern Turkistan at the “people’s palace of arts”

At this congress a quite an interesting case was brought up to the public’s attention. The fascist Chinese regime used the terrible case of the young Uighur, Tursunjan Emet, as an excuse to put pressure in the ideology front in Eastern Turkistan and to extend this fight and oppression of the religious activities into oppression of the national culture and education system as well.

Prior to the congress’ meeting the New-year party was organized in honor of Tursunjan Emet, the national Uighur poet. After that the Communist Chinese regime called up the cadres meeting of the party committee of the Xinjiang Autonomous region on January 11. The Xinjiang paper in its edition of January 13, has announced about this event. The main topic of the meeting was “strengthening the ideological struggle against some obstacles in the ideological front.”

At the meeting the chairman of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region Ablet Abdureshid gave a speech where he mentioned the New-Year party in honor of the poet and said: «This was done in a hidden way, it does not correspond to the social realities, it approves the idea of the nationalist separatism. The party committee of the autonomous region did not take this case seriously. It failed to gather immediately and to work out concrete decisions on this point. The party branches should be serious about such events and should give ideological education to the people in all aspects of life. Our enemies abroad and separatists try to spoil our people by enemy propaganda using radio, journals and books, artworks and literature, Internet, and other means. These enemies want to penetrate our Autonomous region and to instill their separatist ideas in the masses. We need to watch them closely. False ideas and religious concepts of the nationalist separatists of all kinds should be checked scrupulously and banned completely. We have to crash down on all separatist activities.

The Chinese circles in Eastern Turkistan organized some meetings for discussion how to limit and abolish the freedom of speech. For example, Xinjiang newspaper in edition of February 1, on the front page said, “ The party committee of the Autonomous region must intensify in the field of the ideology its fight against national separatists, it should improve the education of masses.”

According to the article, the Communist Party Committee of the autonomous region called up a meeting on January 31. At the meeting the secretary of the party committee of the autonomous region, the notorious butcher Wang Lequan, and the deputy secretary Ablet Abureshid delivered speeches on this issue. The deputy secretary of the Party Committee Zhushengtao offered concrete steps of intensifying the ideological fight against the separatists, and of re-education of measures,
A number of officials participated in the meeting, among them Esqet Kerimbay (Qazaq), Hujiayuan, Wangjingshiang, Chengdemin, Wudungfu, Zhangqingli, Zhuyuan, Nur Bekri, Erkin Imirbaqi, Wuqianglar. Basically they came to decision to intensify the ideological fight against the national separatists, and to improve “reeducation of enemies.”

Wang Lequan said: «over many years the national separatists tried to penetrate into the ideological scene, to create mass disorders. They attempted to use mass media channels, literature, magazines and journals, all possible channels to create dissatisfaction and to destroy the national ideology. The separatists have spread out books and magazines, they published them unlawfully, and they influenced negatively the public opinion. Foreign enemies use radio, Internet, and other media tools to penetrate and undermine our ideological front. Separatists always try to influence the people, to influence the school education system, and to penetrate it for their unlawful purposes. Now in the changing global political situation we should not let the ideological fight to weaken. We really need to continue the policies of
“3 attacks”, and to strengthen the ideological struggle.” Also, Ablet Abdureshid is also made a speech:
” This time at the ideological front we need to re-educate people in the ideological scene. We have to watch closely cadres in the secondary and higher education systems. Our duty is to control publishing all books, magazines, journals, art works and literature. Workers in these areas will get the ideological upbringing and re-education. This time the process of the re-education should be centralized, and we have to lead strong attacks in 4 decisive steps.”

The Communist Chinese regime started after this meeting the real process of “re-education.” The Xinjiang newspaper informed the readers on February 2, “The fight against the nationalist separatists in educational systems and their re-education was launched on January 31.”

Deputy secretary of the Party Committee Zhushengtao gave a speech at the beginning of the ideological attack. He labeled all national teachers, students, and all people who are support national and cultural values along with the educational system in general as the «important branch of the Eastern Turkistan terrorists who already penetrated in the region.”

Also, the Xinjiang newspaper the front page said on February 3 on that “ In the field of the ideology the struggle against the national separatists should be intensified.”
The deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Autonomous region, Ismail Tuliwaldi wrote in article on January 1: “ The struggle against nationalist separatists in the field of educational and arts is the action of the first importance.” He also added: “In our Autonomous region the fight against the nationalist separatists is again becoming a very serious issue in the present political situation. Separatists attack our ideological front, so we are not leading just an armed fight against the separatists. Our internal and external enemies want to deceive the public and to instill their separatist ideas through the literature, education system, press, and other channels. We need to strengthen enthusiastically our basis of the fight against such wrong concepts.”

Ismail Tuliwaldi wrote on January 23 in his new article “ the nationals separatists (terrorists) use not only weapons but also pens to undermine the mass order. They are fighting against us not only with violence but also with the ideological tools.”

The Communist Chinese authorities published in their main organ in Eastern Turkistan, the Xinjiang newspaper, on January 24 the abridged report of Wang Lequan’s speech. He said: “ 3 types of attacks shall not be conducted in a soft way.... In the ideological front we need to intensify out fight against the nationalist terrorists.”


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