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The policy of
oppression Uyghurs and violating their human rights by
the Chinese regime have reached a peak in Eastern
Turkistan. Recently Chairman Jiang Zemin who visited
Germany is a clear evidence of how the Chinese regime
disguises its human right violations. During the last
two weeks, one can see that not only improving in human
right records took place in Eastern Turkistan, but also
the overall human rights situation has worsened
considerably.
The Uyghur Information Center obtained a copy of the
“Kashgar newspaper” in the Chinese language of March 28.
According to it, the Chinese regime in Kashgar region
held a court hearing and sentenced 14 Uyghurs to various
prison terms for “ethnic separatist activities and
unlawful religious activities”, also 52 others locals
were arrested. The Chinese regime launched a new fight
in Eastern Turkistan, which is “the fight in the
ideological front against the ethnic separatists”. The
regime took several actions of restricting national
literature and culture. For example, a head of the
Kashgar publishing house was forced to retire for
publishing two works of our famous writer Turghun Almas.
Over 20 Chinese were employed in this publishing house,
who inspected all books published during last 10 years.
The Chinese also dismissed Ms. Jemile Hesen, the chief
editor of the women’s journal, “Xinjiang women”.
The Chinese regime restricts in all possible ways
publishing of literature works of young writers.
Recently over 10 000 books in Uyghur language were
collected in Kashgar and were burned out. The Chinese
regime also restricts the access of Uyghurs to Internet
and the outer world. The authorities recently inspected
the “650 station” provider and took under their control
all Uyghur sites. We can count many stories to
illustrate the strict Chinese policies regarding the
right of Uyghurs to information access. According to our
sources, the Chinese regime has issued new instructions
on April 7 regarding serious restrictions of foreign
correspondents’ activities. All levels of local
government do their best to minimize such things as
listening to “Radio Free Asia” and other English
speaking programs. Those who try to get uncensored
information from any available sources are severely
punished. The Chinese regime attempts to restrict the
links of the Uyghur people with the outer world.
Also according to our sources, the Chinese regime
announced in its political report that since 1995 “149
illegal organizations” were banned. Recently only in
Urumchi city 3749 Uyghurs are held in Bajihi and Shisen
prisons on political charges. The inmates have no rights
of even meeting with their relatives. Hashim Haji,
deputy inspector of the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
region’s Public Security” made a speech where he stated
that in Uchturpan prison only and only this year there
were 117 inmates, all guilty of “ethnic separatist
actions”.
We all know how the Chinese regime oppresses the
religious activities in Eastern Turkistan. So when Jiang
Zemin mention in Germany that human rights situation was
“improving” in China, we all had another evidence of how
false and hypocrite the Chinese regime is. |
