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REMEMBERING THE HEROES OF BARIN
By Uygur Ariani
Devoted to the eleventh anniversary of the Barin
uprising.
Eleven years ago, on April 5, 1990, a fierce fighting
erupted in the village of Barin in East Turkistan
between young Uighurs and the Chinese army.
After 40 years of silence under the communist Chinese
regime, East Turkistan woke up. April 5 of 1990
entered the Uighur history as a holy day, and the
Barin uprising is now commemorated by Uighurs in
motherland and abroad.
That day under the leadership of an intrepid Uighur,
Zeydin Yusup, who established the Barin branch of East
Turkistan Party, people of Barin fought for our sacred
goals, independence of our motherland and freedom of
our people from the Chinese occupants and for our
sacred faith of Islam.
The heroic Barin people armed with hand-made rifles,
swords, and spears stood against the enemy thousand
times exceeding their number and armed with all kinds
of modern weapons.
The fighters took the building of the local Chinese
government and raised the blue banner of East
Turkistan with a crescent and a star on its roof. The
battle continued for four days. To suppress the
rebellion and to sink the village of Barin into a sea
of blood, the blood-thirsty Chinese communist
occupants had to use thousands of soldiers, armored
carriers, jet-aircrafts, and helicopters.
The fighters demonstrated courage and fought until the
last man stood. Zeydin Yusup and his supporters died
in the battle. They died with the words "It
is better to die than to live in slavery".
The "glorious" Chinese army assaulted old
people and children and killed many innocent people
who did not have relations to the
rebellion. Once again, Chinese butchers brutally
suppressed the
just fight of the Uighur people for freedom against
the despotic
Chinese state. In the aftermath, more than two
thousand people were thrown to jails.
The heroes of Barin demonstrated that it is necessary
to fight to gain independence and freedom from the
totalitarian Chinese state.
The Barin spirit
came to life and spread across East Turkistan. The
torch of our struggle flashed up again, and thousands
of Uighur patriots appeared in the last decade
struggling against Chinese despotism.
They are ready to fulfill the hopes of the fallen
heroes of Barin, and they will take revenge for the
Barin events. They are also ready tosacrifice
their lives for the sacred goals of our people.
Recently the fighters from the Pahtekli village of
Kashgar city killed Memetjan, a judge of the Chinese
court, who was responsible for sentencing the 26
participants of the Barin rebellion to death. A young
Uighur, Muhemmet Eli, and his younger brother killed
the traitor and took revenge for his victims, but they
were killed themselves in the battle with the Chinese
police.
For a people under oppression like Uighurs it is not
possible to have heroes greater and more brave than
the heroes of Barin.
April 6, 2001
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ETIC REPORT 2000 
