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[East Turkistan Information Center, 3/1/01]
According to the information from East Turkistan, the armed clashes that took place last weeks in Kashgar are connected with the bloody incident of April 1990 in the village of Baren in East Turkistan.
Last month, a group of young Uighurs killed a Uighur judge of Kashgar's Toqquzaq district, Memetjan, and seriously injured his wife, who works at a birth control office.
After the assault, the attackers were hiding in the house of Abdukerim Haji located in the town of Ustun (Upper) Atush, but they were detected and attacked by police on February 20.
The armed clash between the Uighurs and the Chinese police resulted in death of one Chinese policeman and injuries of several Uighur policemen. The policemen injured in the clash and the wife of Judge Memetjan are in serious conditions in hospital No. 12.
A young Uighur rebel was injured and captured by the police. He was taken to hospital No. 2 of Kashgar prefecture.
On February 27, Kashgar TV Channel in its news broadcast reported that the secretary of the Kashgar prefecture communist party committee, Yao Yongfeng, together with other officials, visited the injured people in the hospitals.
Also on February 27, a BBC correspondent in Beijing made a spezial report on the recent events in Kashgar and confirmed the information which was first reported by East Turkistan Information Center on February 24. The BBC report also contained some information about the Uighur national liberation movement in East Turkistan against the Chinese rule.
In the uprising of Uighur farmers in Baren in April of 1990, dozens of young Uighurs were shot and several hundred were detained by the Chinese police and military. Twenty six of the arrested were sentenced to death and the others sentenced to different terms of imprisonment. Judge Memetjan was involved in sentencing those 26 young Uighurs to death. It is reported that the attack on Memetjan was a revenge for the executed Uighurs. |
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