An electronic newsletter

Produced by the Eastern Turkistan Information Center

27 July 1996

27 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

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26 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

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22 July 1996, Voice of Eastern Turkistan (Almaty)

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19 July 1996, VOICE OF AMERICA

18 July 1996, Voice of Eastern Turkistan

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(1) THE ACCIDENT IN GHORACHOL VILLAGE

27 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

Beginning from July the Chinese government has been deploying in Eastern Turkistan additional troops transferring them from inner provinces. One can see their presence in many cities and villages all over ET. This is done in order to suppress anti-government activities in ET.

In may on the highway passing in the South West of Ghorachol village of Aksu's Avat county there was a traffic accident involving an automobile of the government's so-called cleaning up troops and a cart of a local Uyghur's family. All three people in the cart were killed in the result of the accident. The names of victims are Kadirem, 50 years old, his wife Hapizam, 45

years old, and their son Hasanjan, 12 years old. There are claims that the troops crashed the cart on purpose.

The relatives of the victims requested several times from the local authorities to start an investigation of the accident. Each time the authorities replied: "We can not investigate each and other case. We have the special instructions from the top authorities that any accidents during the cleaning up campaign against the crime are not to be investigated", and the relatives were denied an investigation.

The victim Kadirem's brother Omar could not suffer such injustice any more and set fire to an animals barn of the Shi 3 of the 16 the Chinese construction army, and escaped from the authorities. Omar caused a damage to the construction army in the amount of about 300,000 yuan.

(2) ARRESTS OF YOUTH IN EASTERN TURKISTAN

27 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

The Chinese government has recently taken under arrest many youths in Eastern Turkistan accusing them in political crimes. The arrested were relocated to prisons and prison camps in inner provinces of China.

The parents and relatives of those arrested went to Qinhai, Gansu, and even Henan trying to find a track of their kids but could not find anything. Without any information from the government on where about of their kids the parents of the arrested are suffering very much. Some even believe that the government killed their kids as the Chinese government under Shing Shitsai did in Eastern Turkistan in thirties and forties.

(3) KILLING OF PRISONERS

27 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

In June guards killed two young Uyghur men in camera 5 of row 3 of the social security department's prison in Urumchi. Before killing the guards denied food to the prisoners and periodically had fiercely beaten them up. The names of the victims are Yarmuhammet, 22 years old from Beshkirem city of the Kashgar district, and Sattar Kari, 24 years old from Alakaghaa village of the Kuchar county. There are reports that cases of beatings and torture to death of prisoners by the guards happen very often in the prisons located in Eastern Turkistan.

The Chinese government has recently arrested many Uyghur youths accusing them in political crimes. The arrested are very often denied food in the prisons, and they are beaten and tortured by the guards.

(4) CLASHES OF LOCAL PEOPLES WITH GOVERNMENT FORCES

26 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

Serious clashes of local peoples with government forces took recently place in Tibet and Xinjiang. As result, in Xinjiang several thousand people were taken under arrest, apparently, overcrowding prisons and detention centers.

The deputy chairman of the Tibet people's council was removed from his post, and the deputy chairman of the Xinjiang's political council was killed. After these events, even the Chinese president Jiang Zemin had to speak up, and he did not forget also to send additional troops

to the Western Region.

Apparently, Xinjiang's Muslims established connections with some terrorist organizations outside the country, and, definitely, have a supply of explosives from somewhere. These people are ferocious and backward, who have been experiencing religious persecutions during decades. Moreover, they have a blood revenge towards the Chinese since the Chinese authorities from Zo Zungtang to Wang Jing have killed uncounted number of them. Xinjiang's Muslims has not still taken their revenge. They even have inspiration to govern the whole World.Using current weakness of the authorities they united with some internal and external enemies and intend to take your live.

The territory of Xinjiang is very large, and it is, indeed, impossible to encircle and destroy them. Recently, one of a former chiefs of the Xinhua Information Agency wrote an article arguing that federative system is completely inappropriate for China. Considering current situation in Tibet and Xinjiang one might ask the following questions. Is the system of permanent suppressing of local peoples is appropriate to China ? Can any country keep its unity by means of constant suppression ? (Chinese newspaper "Chingdau" published in London, June 18, 1996.)

(5) JIANG ZEMIN’S VISIT TO KIRGIZSTAN

26 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

Kirgizstan's "Vecherniy Bishkek" newspaper reported on June 6, 1996: During a visit to Kirgizstan on July 3-4, Chinese president Jiang Zemin signed with his Kirgizstan's counterpart, president Askar Akayev, eight agreements.

The first is a declaration outlining basic principles in relations between China and Kirgizstan.

The second is devoted to the border issues between the two countries. The Kirgizstan's foreign minister, Mrs. Roza Otunbayeva, said later that the border demarcation on the Bedel mountain was discussed and the issue of the control point on the Han Tengri mountain, which has been under dispute during last five years, had been resolved.

Jian Zemin expressed his positive attitude on usage by Kirgizstan and Kazakistan of the Torugart highway passing through China to reach sea ports of Pakistan.The presidents also signed agreements on join fight against crime, opening an air link between Bishkek and Urumchi with later extension to Beijing, cooperation in operating the border customs, scientific and technical cooperation, direct relations between the Chinese Peoples Bank and the National Bank of Kirgizstan. Before the visit, China has provided a financial aid to Kirgizstan in the amount of 3 million yuans.

(6)"STRIKE HARD" AGAINST "STRIKE HARD".

22 July 1996, Voice of Eastern Turkistan (Almaty)

On July 12 the Chinese executioners proclaimed that on July 7 the "100 Days Strike Hard" campaign in Eastern Turkistan had victoriously ended. Indeed, during those 100 days the Chinese authorities turned everything upside down in Eastern Turkistan, took under arrest about 20 thousand of our youth, shoot 115 people on the streets, and disturbed and made suffer tens of thousands of the Uyghur families.

Uyghurs have a proverb "A stick has two ends. If you hit someone with one end then the other will hit yourself". Proving this proverb, the Uyghur people, who had been receiving a "Hard Strike" from the Chinese, began to "Strike Hard" themselves.

"Motherland Messenger" headquarter reported on July 20 that our pro-independence volunteers exploded two big bridges on the Xinjiang-Lianju railway. The transportation on the railroad is completely out of order. The authorities had been using the railway to bring more disaster to our motherland sucking Eastern Turkistan's natural resources out to the China

proper.The government authorities in Urumchi were completely frustrated by this act. The following was reported by the Urumchi radio in the morning news on July 22.

The government ordered to send military and police officers, railway workers, dozens of helicopters to repair the bridges and resume in three days normal operation of the railway . The Xinjiang-Lianju railway has 300 bridges, and many of them are on the maps of the "Lopnor Lions". In the result of the terrorist action, travel of more than 200 thousand people and delivery of 60 thousand tons of oil were disrupted.

(7) SUFFERINGS OF UYGHUR FARMERS

22 July 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

The Uyghur farmers have been recently experiencing very severe droughts. More than one million 600 thousand mu of agricultural land is turned into desert. The unusual strong winds blew out seeds in fields of the Kashgar, Turpan and Kumul farmers. From July 15 heavy rains caused flood in these regions bringing additional sufferings to the Uyghur farmers.

(8) A SWEEPING CAMPAIGN IN CHINA

19 July 1996, VOICE OF AMERICA

A sweeping campaign against crime in china is stirring controversy because of the large numbers of people rounded up and executed over a relatively short period of time. VOA's Stephanie Ho reports the crackdown began several months ago, and appears set to continue indefinitely.

In late April, the main communist party newspaper – the People's daily -- called on the entire country to strike hard against what it called serious criminal offenses.The article gave the campaign its name -- strike hard – and marked the start of what would become a massive and lengthy crackdown against a wide-range of criminal activities.

On Thursday, Chinese news media reported that Chinese courts have sentenced nearly 116-thousand people as part of its strike hard crime-fighting efforts.

The London-based human rights organization, Amnesty International, says China has already executed more than one thousand people around the country in just two months. Amnesty

said china -- which executed more than 25-hundred people last year -- puts more criminals to death than the rest of the world combined. At the same time, the human rights groups accused

Beijing of not giving those executed a fair trial.

The south china morning post recently reported that in China's poorer provinces, as many as 60-percent of the crimes -- such as robberies -- were committed by unemployed people living below the poverty line who had no other way to make a living.

(9) CHINESE AUTHORITIES DECIDED TO EXTEND THE "STRIKE HARD" CAMPAIGN

18 July 1996, Voice of Eastern Turkistan

Chinese authorities decided to extend the period, scope, and further enforcement of the "Strike Hard" campaign "to fight crime" in Eastern Turkistan. The following is a report by the Urumchi Radio on July 14.

Urumchi Radio report, 07/14/96 -- The chief officers of the Social Security Department in Xinjiang responsible for carrying out the "100 days of Strike Hard" campaign gathered in Urumchi for a secret meeting from July 8 to July 12.

Comment by ETIC: "The so-called "Strike Hard" campaign to fight "crime" was initiated in April and is still in effect. Chinese authorities are using it as a pretext to crack down on the national independence movements in Eastern Turkistan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia."

On the meeting they discussed issues related to a comprehensive cleaning up of the separatist elements in the society, and came to the following conclusions.

1. The "Strike Hard" operation has been carried out resolutely enough bringing up very useful experiences which must be learned and applied further.

2. During investigation of the assassination attempt on a head of a political council in Kashgar, comrade Harun, about 10 thousand people were examined, and this operation gave positive results. We should use such tactics in the future operations.

3. In spite of the continuing strong efforts to fight crime in Xinjiang it is clear that the enemy is not completely destroyed. Therefore, the "Strike Hard" campaign must go on in the larger scale with further enforcement.-- end of the Urumchi Radio report.

The following information announced on this secret meeting became available to us:

1. About 450 people of the Chinese military and the social security department personal have been killed since the "Strike Hard" began. About one thousand of the Chinese military and security were wounded. The delegates of the meeting commemorated them by a three minutes of silence. It was decided on the meeting to give financial assistance to families of the killed officers.

2. It was ordered to identify in ten days those among the people taken under arrest who must be given death sentences.

3. The "Strike Hard" campaign will be enforced in Korla Wilayet's (District) Karashar, Lopnor, Korla counties, Charklik county, and to the all counties of the Kashgar and Hoten Wilayets, and will continue till the end of this year.

Prepared by:

Abdulrakhim Aitbayev (rakhim@lochbrandy.mines.edu)

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The World Uyghur Network News electronic newsletter is produced by the Eastern Turkistan Information Center (ETIC) in cooperation with the Taklamakan Uighur Human Rights Association (USA), and is devoted to the current political, cultural and economic developments in Eastern Turkistan and to the Uyghur people related issues.

Eastern Turkistan (Sherqiy Turkistan in Uyghur) is a name used by the indigenous people of the region for their motherland located in what is at present the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic China.

The World Uyghur Network News brings information on situation in Eastern Turkistan from the Uyghur and other sources to the attention of the international community.

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