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UDP Letter to US Assitant Secretary of State Lorne
Craner
"Uyghur Democratic Party's Letter to US Assistant
Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and
Labor Affairs Lorne Craner"
December 18, 2002 Urumchi, East Turkistan
On the day the U.S. assistant secretary of state for
democracy, human rights and labor affairs Lorne Craner
was visiting East Turkistan on December 18, Wednesday,
the central committee of the Uyghur Democratic Party,
which was established recently and has been carrying
out secret underground activities, published an open
letter addressed to Lorne Craner to express its
resentment against the Chinese Government and deliver
the hopes of Uyghur people.
This letter by the Uyghur Democratic Party, which was
written in Chinese, was published secretly in Urumchi,
and passed on to the foreign media through the East
Turkistan Information Center. Uyghur Democratic Party
central committee has made a decision to designate the
Germany based East Turkistan Information Center as
it's fully authorized spokes organ.
Uyghur Democratic Party's Letter to US Assistant
Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and
Labor Affairs Lorne Craner
Dear Mr. Lorne Craner:
On behalf of all the Uyghur people, we would like to
express our satisfaction with your trip to East
Turkistan. We believe your trip will bring hope to
Uyghur people who are dreaming day and night about a
society where freedom, democracy and prosperity will
prevail, and their human rights and national existence
will be guaranteed.
Dear Sir, first we would like to introduce our Party
to you. Our Party is an organization that uses the UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its guiding
principle and operates underground in East Turkistan
against the Communist Chinese Government. Our Party's
goal is to achieve the total independence of East
Turkistan, and materialize Uyghur people's dream to
become the masters of their own destiny and live free
like the other peoples in the free and democratic
world.
Dear Mr. Lorne Craner, we wish we could meet your in
person to deliver the hopes of the unfortunate Uyghur
people whose human rights are grossly violated and
whose national existence is seriously threatened.
However, the Chinese Government simply would not allow
us to meet you. Therefore, we have to publish this
open letter both inside and outside of China. We hope
you will understand.
Dear Mr. Lorne Craner, we have been observing
gratefully that your country United States and other
free and democratic countries have been paying close
attention to the human rights violations in China,
especially the situations in Tibet and East Turkistan,
and constantly warning China not to violate the rights
of the local peoples in these regions. Therefore, we
believe we owe our conscience to express our gratitude
to the United States and the free world.
As you might know, the ethnic conflict and oppression
in East Turkistan is deteriorating at an alarming
rate. This situation is creating an instability factor
not only in East Turkistan but also in the entire
Central Asia. Of course, the creation and
strengthening of instability elements in East
Turkistan is caused solely by the extreme oppressive
policy of the Communist Chinese Government against the
people in this region. Especially, Chinese Government
has stepped up its oppression against the Uyghur
people in the past 10 years.
The Chinese Government has been following a policy to
destroy the Uyghur nation through well-planned gradual
assimilation measures, forcing Uyghurs to give up
their religion and cultural heritage and adopt the
Chinese culture. The authorities have been distorting
the Uyghur history and carrying out hand in hand
campaigns to "clean up" school education systems and
cultural fields through various fascist measures. They
have carried out campaigns to destroy books on Uyghur
history and religion through burning, forcefully
replaced the Uyghur language with the Chinese as the
instruction language in schools, forcing the teachers
and students at universities and middle schools to
give up their mother language.
Chinese Government is encouraging Chinese nationalism
among the Chinese immigrants in East Turkistan, and
allowing them special political, economic and social
rights, but treating the Uyghurs as second-class
citizens, causing the increase of the disparity
between the Chinese immigrants and local population in
East Turkistan. The Uyghurs who dare to oppose the
Chinese oppression or express their discontent about
the Chinese repression are labeled as "ethnic
separatist", "illegal religious activist" and "terrorist"
and being imprisoned or persecuted by various
merciless means.
For these reason, the prisons in East Turkistan are
overcrowded with Uyghur political prisoners. The
Communist Chinese Government's harsh repressive policy
against the peaceful expression of dissent by the
Uyghurs in East Turkistan is forcing some Uyghur
groups or organizations to choose armed struggle. As
the oppression increases, so do the armed resistance
activities.
Dear Mr. Lorne Craner, Uyghurs are peace-loving people.
Our people have been subjected to unprecedented abuse
and oppression ever since the Chinese occupation of
East Turkistan in 1949, yet they have endured with
tremendous patience, hoping for the moral support of
the justice loving free world. But, the extreme
oppression by the communist Chinese authorities is
exhausting our people's patience and prompting them to
express their dissatisfaction through various means of
resistance.
However, we are strongly disappointed that the Chinese
Government, which has long been imposing state terror
on Uyghur people, pretend to be one of the "victim"
countries of terrorism while the true victims of
terrorism the Uyghur people are labeled as "terrorists".
Dear Mr. Lorne Craner, we would like to emphasize that
we, as a people who have been victimized by the
communist Chinese Government's state terrorism for
half a century, oppose all forms of terrorism which
only bring disaster to the world, and we feel sorry
about the September 11 terror attack on American
people, and we hate those terrorists who carried out
that terrorist attack. We hope not only the Uyghurs
but also the Chinese and all the other peoples around
the world to enjoy freedom and happiness in a peaceful,
democratic society, and we are ready to contribute to
this goal.
However, it is a fact that the Communist Chinese
Government is abusing the September 11 incident to
severely distort the nature of the well-justified
activities carried out by the Uyghur people to gain
their freedom and the right to live as humans to
portray the peace-loving Uyghur people as "terrorist"
to the world public, and stepping up crack down on the
Uyghur people. Especially, the Chinese Government is
using the UN decision on "East Turkistan Islamic
Movement" as a cover for its fascist acts against
Uyghur people, and trying to label the whole Uyghur
nation as "terrorists" using that decision as a "proof."
However, your Government's constant warning to China
not to use the September 11 incident and the UN
decision as an excuse to crack down on Uyghurs, and
your special emphasis on the human rights situation in
China during your trip are pleasing the Uyghur people
and increasing our gratitude to you.
Dear Mr. Lorne Craner, you are now in the middle of
your East Turkistan visit, but all you are seeing is
the superficial appearance of East Turkistan, which is
carefully staged by the Chinese Government. If you
were allowed to visit the numerous Uyghur political
prisoners suffering in the dark prison cells
throughout East Turkistan, you would be able see the
true face of this region.
At the end, we wish success to your trip to China and
East Turkistan, and we urgently hope you will ask the
Chinese leaders during your meeting with them to allow
East Turkistan people their rights guaranteed in the
Chinese constitution and the National Autonomous Law,
and to give up their goal to destroy the national and
religious identity of Uyghurs, and stop their policy
to destroy the Uyghurs through assimilation in
cultural, educational and religion fields, and stop
arbitrary arrests, torture, and killing of Uyghurs.
We trust you will do that. We hope your trip will play
a positive role in improving the human rights
situation in China and stability of Central Asia. With
respect to you and the American Government, Uyghur
Democratic Party Central Committee, on behalf of
Uyghur people.
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