Never Say Never Again
On Tuesday, Chinese police has called for the arrest and extradiction to China of eight leaders of Uighur Resistance group, known as East Turkistan Islamic Movement – who are allegedly living in exile in neighbouring Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are accused of being behind the recent increase in Muslim gurrilla resistance in Xinjiang region, resulting in death of 33 people.
Dilxat Raxit, spokesperson for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress (WUC) said the Tuesday’s announcement was part of Chinese government’s attempt to provide legal cover for further wide-range crackdown on native Muslim Uighur population. Like Washington, Beijing too, always refuse to release evidence against the so-called ‘Muslim terrorists’.
Urighur (a Turkic ethnic group) population of Eastern Turkistan (after occupying it Chinese named it Xinjiang) is approximately 15 million, according to Muslim sources. Uighur Muslims and Chinese are not of the same race. Urighurs are more like western Europeans.
This Muslim land is very important to the Chinese government because it contains large oil and gas reserves (75% of total known reserves in China), and it also serves as a paasageway for transporting oil and gas from Central Asia. In its efforts to keep the land colonize and consolidate its control over Xinjiang, the communist government is waging a brutal campaign to eradicate Islamic identity, their distinct culture and their nationalist sentiments. In order to convert Muslim-majority into Chinese-majority – Chinese government has sponsored massive Chinses migration to its occupied land. In 1949, when the communists took over the rule – Uighur Muslims accounted 93% of the total population, and the Chinese of 7%. By 1997, according to official statistics – the population of Xinjiang was over 17 million, 47% Uighurs and 42% Chinese. The current population in Urumqi (capital city of Xinjiang) – the Chinese-Uighur ratio has shifted from 20:80 to 80:20.
Since September 11, 2001 – the Chinese government has been in league with the US – is also carrying of its ‘War on Islam’. Bush Zionist administration was too happy to give a free-hand in suppressing the Muslim resistance in Xinjiang, so the later doesn’t raise its voice in suppoert of Muslim resistance groups in occupied Palestine or Lebanon, who are fighting the Zionisti-regime. Ted Rall’s article on December 15, 2004 – Selling Out the Uyghurs, shows Zionist-Chinese collaboration.
On April 12, 2005 – BBC News published the findings of two American Human-rights groups, which accused Chinese government of conducting “a crushing campaign of religious repression” against Muslim Uighurs.
On April 14, 2008 – Tim Johnson, in McClatchy wrote- “Almost unnoticed amid the wide-scale protest by Tibetans over the past month is the social unrest among the eight million or so Muslim Uighurs in China’s resource-rich far western territory.”
On October 18, 2008 – International Herald Tribune published an article by Edward Wong – “Wary of Islam, China tightens a vise of rules”, saying:
“To be a practicing Muslim in the vast autonomous region of northwestern China called Xinjiang is to live under an intricate series of laws and regulations intended to control the spread and practice of Islam, the predominant religion among the Uighurs, a Turkic people uneasy with Chinese rule.
The edicts touch on every facet of a Muslim’s way of life. Official versions of the Koran are the only legal ones. Imams may not teach the Koran in private, and studying Arabic is allowed only at special government schools.”
A good collection of images of Uighur people and their land.
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