What we stand for:

• We support Palestinians until they are free from Israeli occupation
• We support Uyghur in their demand for freedom in their country
• We support any country in its right to defend itself against any aggression

We support Uyghur 维吾尔文

Uyghur in Xinjiang China have been the victims of suppression for decades in the Peoples Republic of China. They have been recently exposed to a new wave of violence as you may have heard in the news on the hands of the harsh Chinese security forces and the Hans who commit what can be described as ethnic cleansing of Muslim Chinese (Uighur).

Make yourself heard:

• Boycott Chinese products
• Send e-mails to the Communist government of China
• Demonstrate in front of the embassy of China in your country

For hundreds of years, they have tried to free themselves from the rule of Chinese emperors, presidents, and general secretaries. They succeeded in 1944 when they proclaimed the East Turkestan Republic, but the new state did not survive long. Mao Zedong crushed the Uighurs in 1949, the year he established the People’s Republic of China.

As a result of the conquest, Beijing calls the Uighurs “Chinese,” but that’s not true in any meaningful sense of the term. The Han and the Uighurs come from different racial stock, speak different languages, and practice different religions.

The Uighurs, not surprisingly, do not accept the Chinese label, and they reject Chinese rule. Beijing, therefore, has sought to tighten its grip on Xinjiang, which accounts for about a sixth of the total landmass of present-day China. Its most important tactic is to marginalize the Uighurs in their own communities. In the 1940s, the Hans, in fact an amalgamation of ethnic peoples, constituted about five percent of Xinjiang’s population. Today, their number has swelled to about forty percent. In the capital of Urumqi, the scene of most of the recent fighting, more than 70 percent of the residents are Hans. Han settlers take almost all the good jobs, business opportunities, and positions in the government and Party apparatus. Beijing has continually stripped Xinjiang of its mineral resources and crops. And now the Han are trying to take from the Uighurs their distinct identity. Beijing once thought that economic development would assimilate this minority, but relentless modernization — exploitation, really — has only created resentment. And so have policies that are intended to repress Uighur culture. Uighurs are ordered to shave their beards, not fast at Ramadan, and not pray in public outside mosques. Mosques are tightly controlled, and religious instruction for the young forbidden. Uighur-language instruction has been eliminated. In Kashgar, now known as Kashi, the government has been razing the buildings in the Old City to destroy the remnants of Uighur culture.

And, of course, Beijing employs brute force. The latest official death toll from this week’s disturbances is 184, but that number appears to undercount the dead. Observers say that this is the most deadly series of riots in China since the Tiananmen massacre twenty years ago, but that assessment is questionable. Ethnic fighting flared in Yining, the capital of the short-lived East Turkestan Republic, in early 1997. The unrest is thought to have led to at least several hundred deaths, and subsequent executions added to the toll.

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