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The statement of
the East Turkistan Informational Center on the February
1st explosion in Urumchi city.
An explosion carried out by the ethnic Chinese migrant
in Urumqi capital city on the February 1st is a vivid
example of the growing problems in East Turkistan due to
the mounting number of migrant's inflow. According to
the Chinese News an explosion at the Trading Center
Palace in Urumqi city which was carried by the 33
years-old Chinese migrant from inner China led to a
death of one and left wounded several more. Cars at the
near-by parking lot were damaged severely as well.
Chinese "Xinhua Agency" announced that the delays in
payments to this worker led him to explode himself. If
this action had been carried out by an Uighur and not by
ethnic Chinese, regardless of any reasoning the Chinese
government would be quick to announce that "East
Turkistan's terrorist organization was involved in this
act of brutality" to the whole world. It is well known
that some actions of violence by ethnic Uighurs who were
not associated with any organization of the East
Turkistan's independence movement were labeled as the
conspiracy of the Uighurs "terrorists" by the Chinese
government.
There were an explosions in East Turkistan carried out
by ethnic Chinese migrants earlier in the history too.
For the first time a bomb was placed under the car was
detonated in the mid-80's in Urumqi, than a group of the
ethnic Chinese known by Uighurs as "patriots" placed
secretly a watch-bomb under the seat of the Chairman of
the "Board of the Xinjiang Water Affairs" Mr. Minop. As
the bomb exploded a daughter of Mr. Minop’ Shamgul was
killed pitifully. As the investigation was launched
afterwards but ceased soon as the police start
discovering the role of the involvement of the ethnic
Chinese in it. On June 11th of the 2001, an explosion
was carried out at the restaurant in Xihenze city of the
East Turkistan at the time when the Deputy
Prime-Minister Hu Jing Tao was visiting the town and
thus the incident became known not only in East
Turkistan but well beyond it. Authorities were quick to
point out without preliminary investigation the "possible
role of the Uighur separatists in it" but when it was
discovered that the ethnic Chinese migrant Gao Hui Tian
actually exploded it the government was quick to conceal
facts. Such actions of the ethnic Chinese migrants are
carried out often in Ili region of the East Turkistan.
Besides of the fact of the explosions itself, it is a
fact due to the double standards existence of the
Chinese government in punishing ethnic Chinese in
contrary to Uighurs, "Hard for Uighurs, soft for
Chinese", the crime rate for ethnic Chinese is very high
and is growing from a day-to-day. The "Strike Hard"
campaign launched in 80's in East Turkistan by the
government against the crime was soon become known as
the campaign directed against the Uighurs appraisal, but
ethnic Chinese criminals were left alone. This situation
led to the "everything is permitted" for the ethnic
Chinese migrants and arose the deep antipathy of Uighurs
towards them.
When the Chinese communist occupied East Turkistan in
1949, the ethnic Chinese population was barely 400
thousand and now according to the official sources this
number exceeding 7 million. An inflow of the ethnic
Chinese migrants to the region led economic, social
hardships for Uighurs in the areas such as housing,
cherishing the cultivated land, in trade and
manufacturing. In contrast of the Chinese officials'
claim "the land is rich and big" Uighurs in areas such
as in Kashgar, Khoten, Atush possess merely one mo of
the cultivated land, but the Chinese Bingtuan farms have
at their hand that much land that in order to able
cultivate it they invited Chinese migrant workers for
seasonal work. The widening gap between ethnic Chinese
and the local population in distributing the wealth,
pensions, salaries and other benefits leading to the
growing anger against the ethnic Chinese.
The communist China is implementing an ideology of the
big brother to ethnic Chinese and thus the later leading
to view the local population as the second-class. And
naturally, the policies of the humiliation and
disrespect to the local customs which became a normal
standard of behavior of ethnic Chinese makes all Uighurs
angry.
Due to the chauvinistic nature of the government the
local Chinese population view themselves as the masters
of the local people and not as an ordinary citizens. And
this is why every time when Uighurs rise against
occupation of the ethnic Chinese, and Chinese quick to
arm themselves and help military to suppress Uighurs who
does not have even a stick to defend themselves. For
instance in the events in Barin, Khoten and on February
5th in Ghuldja, the local Chinese were played an active
role in suppressing “unrests”. For instance in
surprising the event in Barin the local Bingtuan units
of the 5th people's army and Chinese citizens in Kashgar
region took an active role together with the army in
this event. In suppressing event in Ghuldja the 4th unit
of Bingtuan took an active role in it. On February 8th
1997 Bingtuan unit armed with the latest weaponry made a
demonstration in front of Uighurs and thus inflaming the
anger of the local population towards them. Events such
as this lead to the growing tensions among local and
Chinese nationals.
The above mentioned facts show us that the real case of
unrest in East Turkistan are not "East Turkistan
terrorists" as claimed by the Chinese government but the
ethnic Chinese migrants in the region. The situation is
further complicates as the Chinese government is trying
to label Uighur's independence movement as the "terrorist
one". After the September 11th event, when the situation
such as this exist, and when Communist China not
distinguishing the truth and the lies is adding more to
unfair policies in the region. |
