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“Heaven for
Chinese and Hell for Uighurs”
Prepared by “Uncover the
Truth” Group
e-mail: uinsan@hotmail.com
The Uighur homeland East Turkistan, now known as
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, has become “Chinese
heaven and Uighurs’ hell”. That is what most of the
Uighurs believe. The following are the true facts
which might prove the rightness of the above slogan.
Chinese enjoy the political freedom in Uighur homeland
while as Uighurs live in fear and worry as they easily
be prosecuted and tortured for different political
opinion, different cultural value or for protecting
their own properties. As a result, all of the
thousands of political prisoners and detainees are
Uighurs. Prosecutions and punishments are not same for
Uighurs and Chinese for same crimes or faults. There
is little evidence that a Chinese has ever been
sentenced for a crime done to Uighurs. However, a
Uighur confronts severe punishment even for a routine
quarrel with a Chinese. Uighur political detainees or
prisoners are confined inhumanly harsh cells for a
long time without any charges or evidence of
wrongdoings, without any type of access to family
members, friends or legal staff. Most of them confront
brutal torture.
There is severe job discrimination in whole autonomous
region. All the Chinese graduates, of any level of
tertiary education, obtain their ideal jobs before or
as soon as they graduate. However, only a few
percentage of Uighur university graduates, with
bachelor degrees, have low paid jobs at least a few
months after graduation. Majority of Uighur graduates
have to wait years or forever for having jobs.
Government organizations and companies publicly
advertise that they would offer jobs for only
immigrant Chinese. Although, there are lot of offices
need bi-lingual people to deal with Uighurs clients
who cannot speak Chinese and there are many bi-lingual
Uighurs graduates waiting for such jobs, the
government gives offers those jobs to non-bilingual
Chinese. The result is Uighurs have difficulty in
having their things done and Uighur job seekers remain
jobless. With the same ability, a Uighur is paid far
less than a Chinese for a same job. The Chinese
government tries to make Uighurs jobless and hopeless.
Uighurs are much disadvantaged in government medical
benefits. The great majority of Chinese people have
their medical costs refunded by the government.
However, only a small number of Uighurs are able
obtain medical benefits. In spite of that, Uighurs
might be paying all the medical costs to be
experimented. Having failed in university entrance
exam and after two or three years medical studies in a
college, a Chinese, with little medical knowledge and
education, could be accepted, for a big hospital, as a
medical doctor. They learn by experimenting Uighurs
with the expense the experimented Uighur patients. The
hospital authorities neither accept nor reveal any
medical faults. A Uighur patient’s family has to pay
all medical costs even for any faulty operations. The
Chinese doctors, who become good enough by
experimenting Uighurs in a hospital in Uighur dominant
region, change theirs jobs to hospitals located in
Chinese dominant regions or other provinces of China.
The government encourages the Chinese, in Uighur
homeland, enjoy their own culture, whereas Uighurs are
forced to give up the basic cultural rights. Though,
firecrackers have already been banned in most Chinese
cities as they are considered dangerous, it was not
banned for the Chinese in Uighur dominant cities such
as Kashgar and Hotan. Uighurs are forced to abandon
their language, religion and real state rights, but
immigrants Chinese are being encouraged to maintain
and improve their culture in Uighur homeland. The
Uighur education and educational facilities have been
destroyed.
The Chinese are far more dominant in political
leadership. There has been great changes in the
population ratio between Uighurs and Chinese in recent
years; the Uighur and other local population was 95%
in 1950s in the whole Autonomous Region, and now only
about 48% according to the 2000 official census.
However, there are only about 15% Uighurs and other
local ethnic minorities in the higher governments of
the Autonomous Region. In spite of that percentage,
all of those politicians are chosen by Beijing and no
one represents local peoples.
Most of the Chinese people are benefited of government
funds and services such as real state, taxation,
healthcare, education, retirement, legal issues etc,
whereas very few Uighurs, only the ones who work for
Chinese government, have those rights.
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