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Brief analysis of the general
political situation in Eastern Turkistan in 2005
Perhat Yorungqash
2005 has been claimed to be a year of “peace and
stability” regarding the political situation in the
Uygur District by both the Central government of China
and the manipulated authorities of Eastern Turkistan.
Moreover, they are celebrating “the fruit of victory”
during this year. By their consideration, “stability”
and “peace” is when there are no strikes or uprisings,
explosions or armed conflicts.
Of course, peace and stability are also the dearest
wish of the Uygurs, since there is no people who likes
to live in an environment not peaceful and stabile.
However, if we look at real situation in Eastern
Turkistan, we realize that it was the Chinese
government who was destabilizing and breaking peace in
this territory and has been greatly benefiting from
that - and this is well known to the world.
For example, in the of December 2005 edition of the
famous magazine “Economist” in America there is an
article “Western district under Chinese pressure” and
in this article it is written: “in Uygurs’ territory
because of rise of dissatisfaction of Muslim people
who are not of Chinese origin, the Chinese government
may apply a policy which was applied before in 1997 in
Guldja”. It has foreseen that the Chinese way of
planting seeds which will destabilise and break peace
in this area, will give its results in the future.
Let’s have a look on the political situation of
Eastern Turkistan for one year, and it will become
obvious that the policy of the Central government of
China against the Uygurs was in comparison even worse
than in previous years. In November 2005 (sene yazılı
değil) political actions under the title of
“Precaution for security during the ceremony of the 50
year anniversary of the Xingjian Uygur Autonomic
District” has been carried out and all areas of
Eastern Turkistan have suffered from this action.
For example, the following has been shown in one of
the news of the Chinese “Boshun news network”:
For the “Precaution for security during the ceremony
of the 50 year anniversary of the Xingjian Uygur
Autonomic District”. The District Communist Party, the
local government and the security services of the
district worked out a programme for “General
projection for ensuring safety during the celebration
of the 50 years anniversary of the Xingjian Uygur
Autonomic District”, and to ensure political stability
in Xingjian to organized a special “strong strike”
action till October 20.
In this article, its said that this special “strong
strike” action will start from the beginning of the
year till October and will include the following 5
points:
Firstly, “Against Eastern Turkistan terrorists”
Secondly, “Against illegal religious actions and
antigovernment policy with the use of religion”
Thirdly, “Against the enemies of national policy, and
racists”
Fourthly, “Against ideological national separatists”
Fifthly, “Against enemies of freedom and national
autonomy”
From these five points mentioned above, we can easily
see that if the Chinese Government had focused only in
one direction before, during this year its aim is to
cover all areas of the Uygur land.
Here, the Chinese government means by:
“Against Eastern Turkistan terrorists”, action against
Uygurs who want to be independent, free, build a
future for themselves and who struggle for this;
“Against illegal religious actions and antigovernment
policy with the use of religion”, action against
people who ask for their religious rights and who are
fighting against the Chinese governments policy in the
religion;
“Against the enemies of national policy and racists”,
action against Uygurs who are fighting the policy of
the Chinese communist government, which is based on
assimilation and plundering;
“Against ideological national separatists”, action
against Uygurs who are well educated and like their
nation, care for their nation’s future, and know the
history of the nation and are making it public in
different ways;
“Against enemies of freedom and national autonomy”,
action against Uygurs who understand the real meaning
of the Chinese government policy and humiliation of
their rights and existence of the “Law on national
territorial autonomy” only on paper and not as being
implemented in real life and can hold this against
them!
In conclusion, we can say that the Chinese government
is hiding the protection of its own rights and
interests under this strike, that is, mobilization of
all forces for continuation of its policy against
Uygur the nation and humiliation of their rights as
was done in previous years. Taking into consideration
such circumstances, we cannot make use of the words
“peaceful” and “stabile” for Eastern Turkistan. Such
aggressive policy of the Chinese government is only
strengthening the willingness of the Uygur nation to
struggle for independence.
Of course, there was also good news for the Uygurs in
2005; namely the release from prison of Rabiya Qadir, famous leader and protector of human rights of
the Uygurs and her joining her family in the USA. If
there had not been pressure from the Committee on
Human Rights Protection of the UNO, Western nations
under the leadership of the USA and other human rights
organizations the Chinese government would have kept
Rabiya Qadir in prison until her death, as it is
happening with so many sons and daughters of the Uygur
people. However, as Rabiya Qadir said, only one Rabiya
has been released, but thousands, ten thousands of
Rabiyas are still suffering in cold prisons!
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