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4 . World begins to hear Uighur grievances

Even though China tries its best to label Uighurs as terrorists, they are not succeeding. USA, western European and other democratic countries are not convinced of the Chinese claims. In contrary, the world community has expressed a voice of concern by the latest developments in East Turkistan. For instance, during his visit to Shanghai on October 21st, President Bush have asked his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin not to use the fight against the terrorism as a pretext to mount pressure on ethnic minorities. It is obvious that ethnic minorities meant Uighurs.
In Brussels, the third East Turkistan National Congress was successfully held in the building of the European Parliament despite of all Chinese efforts to block it. The European parliament demonstrated again its principled position on human rights and did not bend to the Chinese pressure. On November 9th during her visit to China, the UN high commissioner on human rights, Mrs. Marie Robinson, has expressed her concerns regarding Uighurs and the violation of human rights in East Turkistan.
The Chinese authorities have not come up with facts proving their allegation on the connections between Uighur organizations and the international terrorism. The Chinese government hoped that just labeling Uighurs as terrorists will be sufficient for the world community and USA to support the Chinese crackdown on the Uighurs. But the world community did not believe to the lies of the Chinese Government. On contrary, many Uighurs believe on the contrary, that the Chinese government is a terrorist organization itself. The world community began slowly to understand the tragedy of Uighurs and the degree of the Chinese oppression.

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