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 The World Uighur Network News 2008

Cotton harvest offers employment and special benefit only for Han Chinese

2008 - 11 - 13

Chinese government coordinated special train that provides three medical personnel in each train and insurance package to encourage the immigration of millions of Han Chinese cotton pickers pour into East Turkistan in cotton season, while transferring hundred thousand of young Uyghurs mostly women to inland China for forced labor.

Han Chinese workers also can have special team which is responsible for labor food, security production and help them get their wages on time. According to statistics on China’s one small county, more than 4000 Han Chinese workers arrived to East Turkistan in this year from that county and their per capita national income reached 4000 Chinese Yuan in two month, which is far greater than Uyghurs annual per capita income in East Turkistan villages, indicates in Chinese media that only around 1000 Chinese Yuan.

According to Chinese media, Chinese army corps cultivation of cotton area in this year in East Turkistan is 7,850,000 Chinese acres, total 601,900 Han Chinese workers employed for the cotton fall harvest work and all of them were came from inland Chinese provinces, none of them were local Uyghurs. Each Han Chinese workers allowed sending 4kg cotton to their home land China, but they always send more than that. According to statistics of the post office in East Turkistan, 601,910 Han Chinese workers send total 4 million kg cotton to their homes in inland China alone.

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