5-26-2003 Chinese government sources say Qin Shihuang unified China for the first time in history during the Qin Dyansty and built the Great Wall of China to prevent foreign encroachment. The Great Wall of China, which was China’s real boundary, crumbles to pieces at Jiayouguan, far from the border of East Turkestan. The Chinese white paper seems to perpetuate the notion that the ancient territories of China have always been as big as the People’s Republic of China or bigger. This is not historically true. The fact is that the ancient China is much smaller consisted of the eastern part of today’ s China and the Middle Plains. Manchuria, (Inner) Mongolia, East Turkestan and Tibet were not historic Chinese territories. The Communist China simply reoccupied all the territories of Manchu Dynasty and claimed as part of China since “ancient” times. The word “ancient times” is misleading contrary to the historic facts….
The fact is that Rabiye Kadir, a prominent Uyghur businesswoman whose only crime was to send publicly available newspapers to her dissident husband in the U.S., is still serving her eight-year prison terms in notorious Chinese prison in Urumchi. The fact is that Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a semi-military unit of nearly three million strong, is fulfilling its historical mission of colonizing East Turkestan and enslaving the Uyghur farmers bydepriving their land, water and agricultural means. The fact is that the Uyghur language still cannot be used at any university as the language of instruction. The fact is that the Uyghur history books are burned at the pleasure of Chinese officials. The fact is that the Uyghur chairman of the “autonomous” region represents the highest interest of the Chinese government by betraying the interest of the Uyghur people. The fact is that the Uyghurs autonomy has become a Chinese colony. These are the hard facts that have driven the Uyghurs to seek separation from China. http://www.radicalparty.org/content/china-whitewashes-historic-reality-east-turkestan
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5-20-2018 “China is a dangerous goliath aiming to intimidate all of Asia. We cannot give it a free pass just because it’s an economic power,” said Swett Lantos.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/muslim-uyghurs-urging-freedom-for-east-turkestan-picket-chinese-embassy-in-washington/
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The Uighur people have long suffered from human rights abuses, as 26.3 million people were killed between 1949-1965 and 8.7 million people have been killed since 1965. About 35 million people died because of the Chinese army's oppression or famine. China has applied the one-child policy since 1985. Chinese officials force women who have more than one child to have abortions. Wearing a headscarf in public, including on public transportation and when getting married in a religious ceremony, were banned in 2014, with fines of about TL 960 for wearing a headscarf in public. Radical behaviors are banned. The Chinese define not drinking alcohol, non-smoking and avoiding eating non-halal food as radical behaviors....
The Chinese arrested Muslim youths for attending a religious ceremony in 1997. Then some 15,000 East Turkestanis demonstrated to protest China and demanded the release of the arrested Muslim youths in Ghulja.
According to the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) reports at least 100 were killed, and some 4,000 people were taken into custody. Also according to Amnesty International, some 90 people were untried but sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. ...
According to a Uyghur Human Rights Project report 700 people were killed due to political activities last year. The number of arrests increased by 95 percent compared to the previous year, reaching 27,000. The number of those sentenced to execution and life imprisonment increased by 50 percent in the last six months. Chinese officials continue to censor media in the region, with no freedom for reflecting in the press....
Chinese police have previously captured or killed ethnic Uyghurs from the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang who have tried to cross to other countries. In a recent incident Chinese police shot dead two Uyghurs on the border with Vietnam, part of a group of people trying to sneak out of the country. Chinese authorities said that they worry that Uyghurs go abroad to link up with militants, but human rights groups said Uyghurs are fleeing persecution under harsh government policies. https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2015/04/26/uighurs-suffer-from-continuous-chinese-oppression
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August 2010
• Around the first century B.C., Han Dynasty controlled Xinjiang on and off for about 200 years
• Around the seventh century A.D., Tang Dynasty controlled Xinjiang for about 100 years
• Xinjiang was also under the control of Tibet (e.g., during the eighth century A.D.) and under the control of Mongolia (e.g., under Genghis Khan and the Yuan Dynasty starting around the 13th century A.D.)
• Qing Dynasty controlled Xinjiang around the 18th century A.D.
• From 1871-1881, parts of Xinjiang was under the control of Russia
Many of the wars associated with these military struggles were extremely cruel and deadly to the defeated parties….
A major historical relic of the importance and dominance of Buddhism for about a 1,000 years in Xinjiang is the Kizil Thousand Buddha Grottoes 庫車 near the middle and western part of Xinjiang. There were 339 caves with many Buddhism murals around the walls of the caves, and 236 of these caves still remain today. The murals in the Kizil Thousand Buddha Grottoes date back to the first century B.C., and surpass other Buddhist murals found in other caves in China in its abundance in content, quantity and duration. The fact that the Buddhist grottoes were located here was not by accident, because the Kuqa-Korla (庫爾勒) region (Korla is a city just east of Kuqa) was a communication hub of the ancient Silk Road; this region was the political and economic center of the Xinjiang region as well as the focal point of Central Asian and Indo-European cultures. As a matter of fact, the Iron Gate Pass, which is a strategic check-point on the ancient Silk Road in the middle of Xinjiang connecting west and east, as well as north and south, is near Korla
The Uyghur language is a Turkish language popular in central Asis, including Xinjiang, Mongolia, Turkey, and several former countries from the breakup of the Soviet Union, such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Turkistan, Kazakhtan, Kyrgystan and Tajikistan. http://www.dontow.com/2010/08/reflections-on-a-recent-visit-to-xinjiang/
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East Turkestan/Xinjiang lies just south of the Altai Mts. (shown)
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