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ETIC PRESS INFORMATION
Remembering and honouring Alim Yusuf
Alim Yunus, founder and one of the
leaders of the “East Turkistan Allah Party” was executed by the Chinese
government in the year 2000 July 19. Today exactly six years have past
since this unbearable loss. The East Turkistan Information Center deeply
regrets and is sorry for this tremendous loss. We would like to convey our
condolences to his family and friends once again. Alim Yunus will be
greatly missed by our entire nation. Today is not only the day we remember
and honor him, but also the day for us to get inspiration and
encouragement from his heroic life.
Alim Yunus was a hero and one of the brave solders of East Turkistan who
dedicated his life to Uyghur independence and freedom. He was arrested in
1998 in the Chinese city of Xian and arbitrarly tortured by the Chinese
authorities until his execution.
Despite the inhuman torture in the prison, he never abandoned his faith
for Uyghur independence and left for us his fearless spirit, dying at the
age of 28.
After the September 11 incidence, the Chinese government labeled all
Uyghur political organizations as ‘terrorist” regardless of the nature and
character of the Uyghur movements and organizations. On the one hand they
try everything possible to portray the Uyghurs who fight for national
liberation, freedom and self-governance as part of the ‘global terrorist
conspiracy”, by constantly and deliberately confusing the national
liberation struggle with Islamist fundamentalist organizations, on other
hand they intend to cover their fascistic regime in East Turkistan by
doing so.
East Turkistan Islamic Party was one of the Uyghur organizations that were
primarily targeted by the Chinese government. All recent Chinese media is
describing “East Turkistan Allah Party” as a “fundamentalist terrorist
organization” and its members as “radical Islamist terrorists”
Unfortunately, this kind of propaganda of the Chinese Government is
playing a very influential role in the international world; some
international organizations are having doubts about the character of the
“East Turkistan Allah Party”, even some of the Uyghur organizations and
Uyghur politicians are avoiding to talk about the “East Turkistan Allah
Party”.
As a consequence of this kind of negative environment created by the
Chinese government’s slander, East Turkistan independence strugglers and
organizations in East Turkistan are deeply disappointed.
In reality, the “ East Turkistan Allah Party“ is not a radical
organization as the Chinese media describes it to the international world:
as an organization whose aim is to eliminate all religions except Islam
and who seeks to fight against people who have a different ideology than
Muslims.
It is not difficult to see that the main goal of the “East Turkistan Allah
Party” is to overthrow the communist Chinese regime and regain Uyghur
independence, and justice in East Turkistan. For instance, there is a big
difference in the Chinese media between before September 11 and after
September 11 regarding the information about “Allah Party”.
The book titled “Ethnic Separatism is the Common Enemy of all Ethnics”
published and distributed before September 11 by the Xin Jiang Uyghur
so-called Autonomous Region’s Kashgar Party Committee’s unified action
department and executive branch quoted one of the flyers of “East
Turkistan Allah Party” and wrote the following:
The Allah Party is openly instigating students, workers, intellectuals,
farmers and businessmen to organize small and large groups to set up
meetings, to organize demonstrations and to go on strikes and encourages
them to participate in various activities of this kind through
propagandizing that the international world community will support them.
The book mentions the main goal of the “Allah Party” :
They mainly target our country and the communist system. Evidence shows
that all the issues caused by them are not religious or ethnic issues, but
are political issues. They are mainly targeting our government system,
they would like to overthrow the communist party and establish their own
government.
We could analyze easily the evidence above and conclude how distorted the
Chinese government presents the character of East Turkistan political
organizations to the outside world after September 11.
There is a another proof of the hypocrisy of the Chinese regime in the
book which can be clearly seen in how they accuse the “Allah Party” by
labeling them as an anti-American terrorist organization to the outside
world and in how they propagandize inside China differently by saying that
the “Allah Party” was established based on the principles of the western
world lead by the United States.
For example, the following statement of the book completely contradicts
the Chinese government’s accusation of the “Allah Party”:
Since spring 1995, under the influence of the westernized and split
strategy of the western countries lead by United States, ethnic
separatists massively developed ethnic separatist ideology and
organizations….
In conclusion, the Chinese government always deforms the
character of any kind of Uyghur organization to accuse them. Our nation
never considers Uyghur organizations or individuals who are struggling for
East Turkistan’s independence as terrorists or terrorist organizations.
For the Uyghur nation, they are the freedom fighters and this is a fact.
Because the East Turkistan independence struggle is not something that
came to be after September 11, it is a struggle that has been constantly
fought since almost one century and its goal has never changed. The East
Turkistan Information Center calls all Uyghurs to bravely support Uyghur
organizations and individuals accused by the Chinese government.
Abduljelil Karakash
President of the East Turkistan Information Center
Perhat Yorungkash
Director of ETIC - Uyghur Research Center
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