Produced by the Eastern Turkistan Information Center

21 November 1996

21 November 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

20 November 1996, CND-Global

20 November 1996, Monitor - Vol.II, No.218

18 November 1996, CND-Global

16 November 1996,CNDGlobal

16 November, Eastern Turkistan Information Center.

13 November 1996, OMRI Daily Digest

12 November 1996, OMRI Daily Digest

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(1) THE UYGHUR SCHOOL IN KASHGAR IS SHUT DOWN BY THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES.

21 November 1996, Eastern Turkistan Information Center

On November 12 at 7 am a Chinese police squad burst into the Languages Institute in Kashgar and requested from teachers and students to leave the building. The policemen were very rude both to children and adults. The police squad had a camera man who was shooting everything on video tape, especially those who were most reluctant and indignant.

Apparently, the authorities planned to use the video recordings later on as a material evidence against some people in the Institute in possible criminal trials with the charges in obstruction to the authorities. This was an another tool to intimidate the teachers and students.

The Institute is still shut down by the authorities and more than one thousand students, mostly children, are deprived of their rights to attend the school, and the teachers are not allowed to resume their work.

The Languages Institute was established in Kashgar in 1986 by an initiative of Mr. Ablimit Damollah, who held a position of a director of the Institute unill the authorities shut the school down. The local Uyghur people respect Mr. Ablimit for his excellent teaching abilities, overall high intelligence level and knowledge of several foreign languages.

The school was sponsored by several Uyghur businessmen and had no state funding. It had more than 20 classes (groups) and was educating children and young people to specialities of interpreters (overall six languages) and medical nurses. The institute had a medical clinic and a dormitory.

The students at the Institute are of ages from 12 to 22, 80% of all students are female. All students are the Uyghurs from Kashgar, Khotan, and many villages and towns around those cities. All teachers of the school are the Uyghurs, as well.(By Rabiyem Yakub, Bishkek.)

(2) QUAKE SHAKES XINJIANG

20 November 1996, CND-Global

An earthquake of Richter scale 7.1 hit a remote part of Xinjiang Tuesday, Reuter reports. The epicenter of the quake was some 150 miles from Hotan and There was no damage because the area is scarcely populated, according to Reuter. Over 50 quakes above five on the Richter scale were recorded in 1995 and Chinese seismologists say that intense quake activities will last until year 2000. (Vic CHIN, YIN De An)

(3) NEW HELICOPTER GUNSHIP UNVEILED.

20 November 1996, Monitor - Vol.II, No.218

The Ka-52 "Alligator" was unveiled by the Kamov helicopter design bureau yesterday. It is a two-seat version of the Ka-50 "Black Shark" that incorporates some Western avionics. Kamov hopes to sell it to the Russian ground and air forces and to market it abroad. It will be built at the Arsenyev plant in Primorye. Arsenyev has had little success in getting the Russian military to buy the Ka-50. (Interfax, November 19)

(4) LINKS WITH CHINA STRESSED IN TIBET

18 November 1996, CND-Global

The Beijing controlled Tiber Daily urged textbooks and publications to emphasize historic links between Tibet and other parts of China and to eradicate the influence of the Dalai Lama, Reuter reports.

"Protecting the unity of the motherland and opposing the Dalai Lama's evil activities to split the motherland is a major task of building spiritual civilization in our region," the paper said. The paper accused the Dalai Lama of using religion to encourage separationism.

"Religion...cannot provide the impetus for development in Tibet and cannot provide any help to the Tibetan people in throwing off poverty and becoming prosperous," the paper claimed. Earlier, China criticized the meetings of the Dalai Lama with representatives of the European Parliament and with Australian Prime Minister John Howard. (Vic CHIN, YIN De An)

(5) CHIANG CHUNG-LING’S VISIT TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC.

16 November 1996,CNDGlobal

Source: Taiwan's China News (11/16/96 - 11/17/96)

Minister of National Defense Chiang Chung-ling is in the Czech Republic, the latest in a series of high-level visits from Taipei likely to anger China.

(6) THE WORLD UYGHUR YOUTH CONGRESS FINISHED ITS WORK IN MUNICH.

16 November, Eastern Turkistan Information Center.

Munich. The World Uyghur Youth Congress that convened on November 9 in Munich, Germany, successfully finished its work on November 13.

Elections results at the Congress is the following:

* The Chairman of the Congress:

Mr. Omer Kanat, Chairman of the Eastern Turkistan Union in Europe;

* Deputy Chairmans of the Congress:

1. Mr. Abduljelil Karkash, Director of the Eastern Turkistan Information

Center,

2. Mr. Zuhrullah Kurbanbayev, Chairman of a youth group of the Uyghuristan

Liberation Organization;

* The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Congress:

Mr. Dolkun Isa;

* The Deputy Chairmans of the Executive Committee of the Congress:

1. Mr. Arkin Akram,

2. Saydullah Khamitov;

* Treasurer: Abdulhakim Khoten;

* Deputy Treasurers:

1. Sirajiddin Azizi,

2. Tursun Garayev,

3. Seyfulla Pamir.

* Members of the Supervising Committee:

1. I. Omer (Germany),

2. Abduljelil Turan (Turkey),

3. Abdulaziz Turkistani (Saudi Arabia),

(7) ABOUT ONE-QUARTER OF RUSSIANS SUPPORT CHECHEN INDEPENDENCE.

13 November 1996, OMRI Daily Digest

Twenty-six percent of Russians support granting Chechnya independence, according to a survey in which individuals were asked to indicate which ideas they supported from a list provided by VCIOM, Segodnya reported on 13 November. Twenty-four percent back a complete withdrawal of Russian troops and 23% want to close the Russian-Chechen border. On the other hand, 22% support the idea of maintaining Chechnya within the Russian Federation. -- Robert Orttung

(8) KYRGYZSTAN, CHINA AGREE TO FIGHT SMUGGLING.

12 November 1996, OMRI Daily Digest

Kyrgyz Interior Minister Omurbek Tukuyev and Chinese Public Security Minister Tao Siju agreed in Beijing on 11 November to cooperate in combating smuggling, ITAR-TASS reported. The agreement has special significance for China as a new road connecting China to Pakistan via Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan opened this year. Besides bordering on China, Kyrgyzstan also borders Tajikistan where the ongoing civil war greatly facilitates the smuggling of arms and narcotics. -- Bruce Pannier

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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