Changing the Guard at the World Uyghur Congress
Yitzhak Shichor, The Jamestown Foundation, China Brief
1/10/2007

Early Roots

Beginning in the 1920s, Uyghurs have claimed the region, known since the mid-18th century as Xinjiang (or the New Frontier), as their homeland [1]. This region had been beyond the reach of the Chinese empire for nearly a thousand years, from the 750s to the 1750s, before it was finally reoccupied by the Qing Dynasty. Even then, Chinese control of the region, which officially became a province of China in 1884, was superficial and shaky. In addition to having to cope with the numerous rebellions, the central government found it difficult to govern the region effectively, given its great distance from the country’s capital. China's weakness in governance and lack of internal cohesiveness eventually allowed for the establishment of the Eastern Turkestan Republic (ETR) under Soviet auspices in November 1944. During this period, the ETR was ruled by a coalition that included Xinjiang's main nationalities, the most predominant of which were the Uyghurs.

In the fall of 1949, however, the ETR collapsed when Chinese Communist soldiers “peacefully liberated” Xinjiang with the Janus-faced support of the Soviet Union. ETR leaders who remained in Xinjiang underwent systematic persecution and quickly disappeared. Other ETR leaders escaped, some to Central Asia and some to India, including Mehmet Emin Bughra and Isa Yusuf Alptekin, who would become the leading figures of the Uyghur diaspora. Both settled in Turkey in the early 1950s, winning the moral and material support of Ankara, which at that time did not recognize Beijing and had sent troops to fight the Chinese alongside the UN and U.S. forces in the Korean War.

Using Turkey as a base, Bughra, and after his death in 1965, Alptekin, repeatedly raised the issue of Uyghur independence during meetings with world leaders, in letters and petitions and in the media. Yet, no serious attempts were made to create a universal forum to represent and promote the Uyghur cause. For one, communications technology was neither sophisticated nor extensive enough. Furthermore, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), nearly cut off from the entire world, was immune to international pressures and criticism. Given that a significant portion of the Uyghur diaspora lived under Soviet rule—and in spite of Moscow's manipulation of the Uyghurs against China at the height of the Sino-Soviet conflict—it would have been impossible to mobilize the Uyghur population into an umbrella organization under Western auspices. Needless to say, during the height of the Cold War, the West was not overly concerned with human rights or with the fate of oppressed nationalities.

Within a dozen years, however, the situation changed dramatically. With the death of Mao Zedong, China launched extensive reforms that, among other things, led to an apparent, though not necessarily genuine, relaxation of social and cultural restrictions. No less important were the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Central Asian republics. During this period, China had also become increasingly integrated into the international community, exposing it to criticism from Western governments and NGOs for its human rights violations. Accompanying the changes in the political sphere were advances in communications and media technology, which enabled the Uyghurs to target a more global audience with their message of independence. While the Uyghurs became hopeful that these changes might lead to greater territorial autonomy or even independence, by the early 1990s it had become clear that Beijing had no intention of providing them with any domestic or international space.

Evolving Objectives

Recognizing that little could be done within China to convince Beijing otherwise, the leadership of the Uyghur diaspora turned their efforts toward the creation of an organization that could represent their interests in the international arena. The initial attempt at forming a universal Uyghur organization was in December 1992 when the Eastern Turkestan World National Congress (later renamed the First East Turkestan National Assembly) convened in Istanbul. The Congress denounced China’s brutal policies in Xinjiang and called for Eastern Turkestan’s independence, though it failed to produce an effective organization that could coordinate such activities. A second attempt was made six years later, in December 1998, when over 40 Uyghur leaders and some 300 representatives from 18 countries established the Eastern Turkestan National Center (ETNC) in Istanbul to serve as the international umbrella organization for Uyghur associations throughout the world and as a de facto Eastern Turkestan government-in-exile. Yet, this organization was by no means universal. Radical Uyghur groups, primarily in Central Asia, rejected the ETNC's emphasis on non-violence and excluded themselves from the Center. Moreover, by this time, the PRC had begun to apply pressure on Turkey and, within a year, the ETNC headquarters was moved to Munich.

On October 16, 1999, the Second East Turkestan National Assembly unanimously upgraded the East Turkestan National Center to the East Turkestan National Congress. Yet, there remained a number of independent Uyghur organizations, and on April 16, 2004, following months of preparation, the Eastern Turkestan National Congress merged with the World Uyghur Youth Congress (both located in Munich) to create the WUC. The WUC’s primary objective, undoubtedly affected by the events of September 11 and Chinese accusations of “terrorist activities,” was “to promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkestan” [2]. Reflecting its pragmatic and flexible stance, the Congress’ mission statement purposely avoided the use of the word “independence,” emphasizing instead democracy and self-determination.

Erkin Alptekin, the son of Isa Yusuf Alptekin (who died in 1995), was elected in 2004 as the first WUC president for a self-imposed term limit of two years. Born in 1939, Erkin was only t10-years-old when his family escaped from Xinjiang to Kashmir and later to India. From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, he was employed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Munich as the assistant director of the Nationality Services. In addition, he served as the director of RFE/RL’s Uyghur Division until early 1979 when the broadcasts were discontinued and the division was dismantled—a U.S. concession to Beijing to enable the establishment of U.S.-PRC diplomatic relations. Only a year before, Erkin had published a book that was bitterly hostile to communism in general and to China in particular [3]. Even after his tenure at RFE/RL, Erkin continued to promote the Uyghur cause, and in early 1991, founded the Eastern Turkestan Union in Europe (ETUE) and became its first chairman. The same year, he became one of the founders of The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and in 1999, became its General Secretary.

Contemporary Objectives

As the president of the WUC, Erkin led its leaders in constructing objectives that represented a clear choice of pragmatic policy and activism. In the post-September 11 environment of heightened fear and increased monitoring of international and domestic terrorist activities, it was necessary for Uyghur activists to underline the nonviolent nature of their struggle. WUC leaders were primarily younger individuals who were born in Xinjiang and had lived, at least for a period, under Chinese communist rule. Many of them had received university education and were often fluent in foreign languages. They were painfully aware of the limits to their visions, recognizing that most governments were not willing to risk their relationships with China to support Uyghur independence, and so they consciously moderated their message.

Yet, a minority of Uyghurs rejected the moderate stance of the WUC and was unwilling to compromise on what they viewed as the fundamental goal of independence. Rather than join the WUC, in October 2004 the radical minority formed the Republic of East Turkestan Government-in-Exile (ETGE), headed by Yusuf Anwar, in Washington, D.C. Tension gradually began to build between the two Uyghur organizations. WUC members criticized the ETGE as a hollow organization with radical members whose dogmatic objectives were unrealistic. The ETGE responded by accusing the WUC of treason and of compromising the goal of independence for the sake of a virtual autonomy that Beijing would not grant. While a two-line struggle—moderates on one side and radicals on the other—would have been beneficial to the national liberation movement, within two years the ETGE disbanded as an organization.

As the remaining international Uyghur umbrella organization, the WUC is in a unique position to represent the concerns of the Uyghur people. During its recent Second General Assembly, the WUC reiterated its adherence to the objectives of defending “the human rights, religious freedom and democracy of the Uyghur people.” More importantly, the meeting was, as Erkin Alptekin stated, “a new beginning” for the organization. As Erkin stepped down after his two-year term, human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer was unanimously elected as the new president of the WUC. Kadeer is by no means as eloquent as Alptekin, and, in fact, she can hardly speak English. Yet, she possesses credibility that is often difficult to find among the diasporic Uyghur community. As a successful businesswoman, Kadeer was elected to the government of Xinjiang in 1987 and promoted to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1992. In August 1999, however, she was arrested on her way to meet a U.S. Congress delegation in Urumqi and suffered personal persecution by the Chinese authorities, spending nearly six years in prison until she was released on March 17, 2005, due to international (primarily U.S.) pressure. She was allowed to leave China for the United States where her husband was living, though three of her sons as well as other family members remain imprisoned and persecuted in China. Nicknamed “the mother of the Uyghur people,” she quickly became the president of the Uyghur American Association and was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Condemning the nomination, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman stated on September 12 that she was not qualified to represent “Chinese Uyghurs” and accused her of being a member of a terrorist organization (Xinhua, September 12). Moreover, Beijing warned Norway that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Kadeer would harm relations between the two countries (DPA, September 22). Unfazed by Beijing’s threats of retaliation against her sons, Kadeer declared, “I promise that I will peacefully struggle for [the] Uyghur people’s freedom and human rights until they have them.”

With its 25 affiliated organizations, the WUC is now the outstanding representative of all Uyghurs worldwide. Beijing may find the WUC, now led by Kadeer who has firsthand and updated knowledge of the situation in Xinjiang, more difficult to oppose. While this is unlikely to translate into tangible concessions to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, such as greater autonomy or independence, it certainly implies that the Uyghurs, who have long been disunited, isolated and passive, are now much more united and effective in pursuing their cause.

Notes
1. To this day Uyghurs deliberately avoid mentioning the Chinese term “Xinjiang,” using instead the term “East Turkestan.”
2. Available at http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/AboutWUC.asp?mid=1095738888.
3. Erkin Alptekin, Uyghur Türkleri [The Uyghur Turks], (Istanbul, 1978).

From:http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2986.html

German official moots accepting Guantánamo inmates
Published: 20 Dec 08 16:01 CET

Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20081220-16265.html

The German government has signalled it is willing to help US President-Elect Obama make good on his promise to close the controversial terrorist prison camp Guantánamo Bay by taking in inmates.


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Günther Nooke, human rights envoy for the German government, told the Frankfurter Rundschau on Friday that Germany would work together with other European states to take in innocent inmates.

“Guantánamo is an American problem, but its closure should not be hindered because no-one knows where to put the prisoners,” Nooke told the paper.

Nooke is particularly interested in the plight of the 17 Uighurs held in Guantánamo. The Uighurs are a Muslim Turkic-speaking people native to central Asia, whose return to their home in China carries diplomatic baggage. China is opposed to the independence efforts of its small Uighur population and reacts irritably to western involvement in the question. Germany is one of the few European countries with an Uighur community.

According to Saturday's report in the Frankfurter Rundschau, the German government has already conducted behind-the-scenes negotiations on the acceptance of the Uighur Guantánamo inmates. There is no evidence of their involvement in terrorist activities, and some were apparently sold by the Taliban to the United States military as prisoners.

It is widely thought that Obama faces a legal headache on what to do with Guantánamo Bay. Human rights groups are calling on him to release all prisoners that cannot be tried in a public court. Defence Secretary Robert Gates, who is to keep his post under Obama's presidency, called for the dissolution of the camp two years ago, but has been more reserved since. Legal experts fear that it is doubtful that any inmates could receive a fair public trial.

The Local (news@thelocal.de)

From:http://www.thelocal.de/national/20081220-16265.html

' Rabiye Qadér Heqqide Dastan' Istanbulda Neshir Qilindi

Muxbirimiz Arislan
2008-12-18

"Rabiye qadir heqqide dastan" dégen kitab merkizi gérmaniyidiki sherqiy türkistan birliki teshkilatining bashqurushidiki azadliq neshriyati teripidin istanbulda neshir qilindi.






Uyghurlarning meniwiy anisi, uyghur milliy herkitining yétekchisi rabiye qadir xanim yawropadiki namayishlarning biride. Rabiye qadir xanimmu ' tömür ana ' hörnisaxandek, özi, ailisi we baliliri xitay hökümitining türlük ziyankeshliklirige uchrighan ashu uyghur anilirining biri.


Bu kitab eslide gérmaniyilik ayal yazghuchi aléksandéra kawélius xanim teripidin gérman tilida yézilghan bolup, "kökni zilzilige salghan ayal" dégen namda, 2007 ‏- Yili iyun éyida gérmaniyidiki héyniyé neshriyatida neshir qilinghan. Aptor kitabning namigha qoshumche qilip, "rabiye qadir xitay dölitining 1‏- Nomurluq düshmini" dep izahat bergen.

Bu kitab hazir gérmaniyide yashawatqan uyghur ziyaliyliridin abduréhimjan abdureshid dégen shexs teripidin uyghurchigha terjime qilinghan bolup, bu kitabning azadliq neshriyati teripidin 2008 ‏- Yili 12 ‏- Ayda istanbulda neshir qilinghan uyghurche terjimisige "rabiye qadir heqqide dastan" dep nam bérilgen.





Terjiman kitabning muqeddimisige terjime qilish jeryanidiki köz qarashlirini ipadilep mundaq yazghan: kitabning özem muhim dep qarighan jaylirini eynen jümlimu ‏- Jümle terjime qilip, melum mezmundin kéyin öz qarishimni qoshumche shekilde bayan qildim.

"Rabiye qadir heqqide dastan " dégen bu kitab uyghur milliy herikitining rehbiri, dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanim heqqide gérman tilida yézilghan biograpiyisning uyghurche terjimisi ornida, hem qoshumche sherhilinip yézilghan qimmetlik eserdur.


Bu kitab asasliqi bir muqeddime we besh bölümdin terkip tapqan bolup, birinchi bölümi, xisletlik tughulush, ikkinchi bölümi qismettin himmet ghalibtur, üchinchi bölümi pul hemme nerse emes emma köp ishlar pulgha qarashliq, tötinchi bölümi yenggili bolmaydighan tosalghu yoq, yetkili bolmaydighan yükseklik yoq, beshinchi bölümi zindandiki ghalip roh dégenge oxshash témilardin ibaret.

Kitabning asasi mezmuni dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanimning kim ikenlikini, hayat kechürmishlirini, ish ‏- Paaliyetlirini, uyghur millitining milli kimlikini, uyghur milliti bilen xitay millitining milli oxshashmasliq perqini, xitaylarning uyghur millitige neqeder wehshi zulum salghan we séliwatqanliqini, uyghur millitining gherb elliridin némini kütidighanliqini uningdin bashqa yene nurghun muhim melumatlarni öz ichige alidu.

Bu kitab "anilar bir qolida böshükni tewretse yene bir qolida dunyani tewritidu" dégen uyghur xelq maqal temsili bilen bashlanghan. Bu kitabni oqughan her qandaq bir shexs rabiye qadir xanim bilen uyghur millitining ijtimaiy turmush istili we milli tuyghusi bilen eynen uchrashqan bolidu, bu kitab yalghuz rabiye qadir xanimning kishilik hayatinila ipadilep qalmastin belki uyghur millitining siyasi teqdirini, omumiy hayat kartinisini, milli exlaqini, eneniwi adetlirini, uyghur millitining heqiqiy milli salahiyetke, milli musteqilliqqa ige, béqindi emes öz aldigha mewjut bolup kelgen bir millet ikenlikini namayen qilidu.

Biz bu heqte bu kitabni neshir qildurghan sherqiy türkistan birliki teshkilatining bashliqi Korash Atahan ependi bilen téléfon ziyariti élip barduq.

Töwendiki awaz ulinishidin, bu heqtiki söhbitimizning toluq melumatini anglaysiler.

Menbe:http://www.rfa.org/uyghur/xewerler/tepsili_xewer/rabiye-qadir-dastanni-12192008070143.html/story_main?encoding=latin

Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2008
" 4- Awghust'' Qeshqer Qehrimanliri Shéhid Qilindi

Abduréshid Haji Kérimi Xewiri

2008-yil 12- ayning 17- küni



Xitayning zuwani bolghan " shinxua tor béti '' ning bügün kech saet 18:00 lerde bergen xewirige qarighanda:


" Shinjiang" Uyghur Aptonom Rayon Qeshqer Wilayetlik Ottura xelq Sot mehkimisi mushu yili 11-ayning 11-küni yeni Jumhuriyitimiz qurulghan qutluq künning harpisida yépiq sot échip , " 4- Awghust Semen Yoli Weqesi'' ni sadir qilghan Qurbanjan Ablimit bilen Abduraxmanjan Azadlarni " Qeshqer shehride "zorawanliq- térror" - hujumi qozghap Quralliq Chigra mudapiye qisimlirigha hujum qilghan ''- dégen ''jinayi'' déloni békitip höküm élan qildi. Bu sotta esebiyleshken Xitaylar "Qurbanjan Ablimit bilen Abduraxmanjan Azadlar qanunsiz halda Qural – yaraq, Oq- dora, partlatquch Bomba yasap qesten Adem öltürüsh jinayitini sadir qilghanliqi üchün ölüm jazasi bérilip , siyasiy hoquqidin menggü mehrum qilindi,- dep xewer yazdi.


Xewerde yene bildürilishiche:

Qeshqer ottura sot mehkimisining tekshürüp békitishche , Milliy qehrimanimiz Qurbanjan Ablimit bilen Abduraxmanjan Azadlar "Uzundin buyan esebi Diniy idiyewiy teshwiqat terbiyisini élip bérip, qutratquluq qilip, köp qétim süyqest pilanlap, Qural- yaragh , Oq- dora bulashni we Quralliq Chigramudapiye qisimlirigha ushtumtut hujum qilishni, partlitishni, yoshurun adem öltürüshtek paaliyetlirini ishqa ashurush istikide bolghan" iken.



Ularning déyishiche, Milliy qehrimanimiz Qurbanjan Ablimit we Abduraxman Azatlar "2008- yili 2-, 3- aylarda, Qural- yaraq yasashqa kérek bolghan Oq – dora, partlatquch Bomba yasashqa qollunilidighan matériyallarni sétiwélip, qanunsiz halda 11 dane partlatquch Bomba, 2 dane Qural, we köp miqdardiki Oq-dora qatarliqlarni yasap, Qeshqer wélayetlik Quralliq chégra-mudapiye qisimlirining qarargahigha hujum qilishni nishan qilip tallap, uzundin biri aldin'ala pilanliq teyyarliq ish-herketliride bolghan"iken.


Bu yil yeni 2008-yili 8- ayning 4- küni ettigen saet 6.00 lerde, ikkiylen özi yasighan qural-yaraqlar bilen qorallinip, teyarliwalghan Oq- dora, Partlatquch Bomba we Pichaq, Paltilirini élip, éghir tiptiki Samsimol ( Özi yük chüshüridighan) mashinidin birni oghurlap , hujum nishani bolghan Qeshqer wilayetlik Quralliq Chigra-mudapiye qisimlirining turarjayi bolghan Herbiy Gazarmigha kélip yoshurun'ghan we peyt kütken. Saet 8:00 bolghanda, Quralliq Chigra mudapiye qismining jandarmilliri ettigenlik Herbiy meshiq qilish üchün gazarmidin chiqip meshiq meydanigha qarap mangghanda, Abduraxman Azad mashinini tiz sür'et bilen heydep Xitay jandarmillirini arqa teripidin kélip basturup, urup- soqup, 16 Düshmenni nex meydanda öltürgen, 13 saqchini éghir yaralandurghan. Mashina kontorullighini yoqutup yoldin chiqip aghdurulup ketken. Abduraxman Azad mashinidin chüshüp özi yasighan Qural bilen saqchi qisimlirimigha hujum qilip , Bomba tashlap Xitaylarni partilitip öltürgen.



Qurbanjan Ablimit Xitay quralliq qisimlirining yaz pesli kiyidighan saqchi kéyimini kéyiwélip, Chigra-mudapiye qisimlirining turarjayidiki qarawulxanigha hojum qilip, Bomba tashlap, partlash awazigha masliship, arqidin qolidiki qosh bisliq yoghan shemsher bilen mashinining chaqida mijilip jan talishiwatqan nijis eskerlerni chanashqa bashlighan, netijide kopligen düshmenni jehennemge yollighan we nurghunlirining yarilinishini keltürüp chiqarghan....... Bu 2 neper milliy qehrimanimiz neq meydanda Xitaylarning tajawuzchi Armiyesi teripidin qolgha chüshürülgen.


Xitay Shinxua tor bétining ashkarilishiche:

Milliy qehrimanimiz Qurbanjan Ablimit bilen Abduraxmanjan Azadlar qisas élish üchün baturluq bilen Qural -yaraq yasighan, Oq- dora , Partlatquch Bomba qatarliqlar bilen 17 Düshmenni öltürüp 15 düshmenni éghir yarilandurghan..... Shu wejidin Xitay soti teripidin "Qesten adem öltürgen" dep qarilinip, siyasiy hoquqidin ömürwayet mehrum qilinip, ölüm jazasi bérip derhal ijra qilinghan.


Merhum Qurbanjan Ablimit bilen Abduraxman Azadlar- bir tughqan Acha - Inilerning baliliri yeni Bir newre tuqqanlar bolup, Qurbanjan Ablimitning Anisi Ibadetxan, Qeshqer Wilayetlik Uyghur tibabet Shipaxanisidin pénsiyege chiqqan xadim. Ibadetxanning ukisi Azad bolsa, merhum abduraxmanjanning dadisi bolidu.

Bu aka – uka bir newre qérindashlar Qeshqer Shamalbagh yézisining 1- we 5- kentliridin bolup, Weten we Millitige cheksiz semimiyet bilen muhabbet baghlap chong bolghan Uyghur xelqining jenggiwar perzentliridur!


Merhum Qurbanjan Ablimit Aliy mektepni tamamlap öz yurti Qeshqerge kélip ishqa orunlishalmighan, Xitay xojayinlarning " Uyghurlardin ishqa Adem almaymiz" – dégen zeherlik sözliri uning ghorurigha tegken. Bir qétim merhum shéhidimiz Qurbanjan bir Xitay xotunining öktemliki bilen gep tegiship qalghanliqi üchün, Xitay saqchilliri basmadap kélip uni urup-dessep haqaretlep éghir yarilandurup, yatquzup qoyghan. U éghir tayaq zerbisidin kéyin 3 Ay doxturxanida yétip dawalinip ming teste eslige kelgen. Bu naheqchilikni soraydighan adem bolmighan.


Xewerde yene melum bolishiche wehshiy tajawuzchilar 4-Awghust weqesi yüz bérip ertisi Qurbanjanning Anisi Ibadetxanmu késel we qérip qalghinigha qarimay rehimsizlerche türmege tashlan'ghan....

Abduraxmanjan Azad oxshashla xitaylarning köp qétim kemsitishige uchrighan, Uning akisini Xitay saqchiliri milliy hésiyating küchlükken, dep urup turmige solap, 3 aydin kéyin öligini tashlap bergen...... Uning öyi del weqe sadir bolghan Quralliq chégra mudapiye qisimlirining turarjayi etrapida bolup, U mehelle Xitay köchmenliri teripidin Uyghur qizlirini mejburlap ishlitidighan Pahishexanigha aylanduriwélinghan " Shad- xuram '' méhmanxanisining etrapigha toghra kélidiken .....


Weqe yüz bergen künning ertisi her ikki milliy qehrimanimizning Turar-jayliri Xitay Armiysi teripidin tekshürülüp, ularning Öy-makanliri topa ittirish mashinisi bilen parchaqlap tashlinip, xarabiyliqqa aylanduruwétilgen. Ulargha chétishliq dep qaralghan 40 nechche uyghur perzenti turmigha tashlanghan.... Hetta ularni chet'eldiki Rabiye Qadér xanim bashliq Uyghur teshkilatlirigha we bashqa diniy teshkilatlarghimu baghlap qiyin-qistaqqimu aldghan, éghir iskenje bilen insan qélipidin chiqqan wastilerni ishlitip qiynighan.....


Bu 2 neper uyghur perzentimiz – uyghuristan xelqining qelbide menggü hayat! Uning bizge qaldurup ketken Ish- izliri xelqimiz we kélichek ewlatlirimizning hayatliq yolini yorutup béridu!


Ular allah yolida özi éytqandek" biz allah yolida, peyghembirimizning körsetmisi boyunche, Ana sütini halal bilip uni aqlash üchün, wetinimizni bésiwalghan Xitay tajawuzchilirini wetinimiz tupriqidin qoghlap chiqirish üchün, bu mubarek jihatqa atlanduq......."- dep wesiyetname yézip, xorluqqa uchrighan we ar-numusi depsende qilinghan mezlum xelqimizning qisasini élip, yazghanlirini yashap, armansiz arimizdin quyruqluq yultuzlardek saqip ketti! Ularning baturane rohyi zamandashlirigha öchmes örneklerni qaldurup ketti! Ulargha janabiy allahdin jennet mertiwisi tileymiz! Alla ularning rohlirini shat eylisun we yatqan yérini jennette qilsun!

Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2008
Erkin Asiya Radiosi Uyghur Bölümining Qurulghanliqining 10 Yilliqini Qizghin Tebrikleymiz

Erkin Asiya radiosi Uyghur bölümining qurulghanliqining 10 yilliqini qizghin tebrikleymiz.Erkin Asiya Radiyosi Uyghur bölümi ötüp ketken 10 yil ichide Xitay tajawuzchillirining Uyghuristanda yürgüziwatqan "Sözliseng tilingni késimen, qarisang közüngni oyimen" deydighan pashistik siyasetlirining epti-beshirisini hör dunyagha anglatqandin bashqa, iqtisadiy, meniwiy we siyasiy jehette arqida qaldurulghan, bir millet süpitide tarix sehipisidin yoqulup kétish tehlikisige duch kelgen Uyghuristan helqige démokiratiye, insan heqliri we azatliq heqqide ders bérip, qarangghuluq qaplap ketken 20 milyondin artuq qelibde ümit shamini yandurdi.

Shu munasiwet bilen, Erkin Asiya Radiyosi Uyghur Bölümini Uyghuristan xelqige teqdim qilghan Amérika hökümitige minnetdarliqimizni bildürimiz.Radiyo qurulghan 10 yildin béri Xitay tajawuzchillirining Uyghuristandiki érqiy we meniwiy qirghinchiliqi we pashistik assilimatsiye siyasiti aqiwitide bash-panasiz, charisiz we imkansiz qalghan xelqimizning janijan meydani terepte turup, dunya xelqige wetinimiz Uyghuristanning siyasiy, ijtimayi we iqtisadiy kirzislirini waqtida anglitip dunya jamaetchilikining we Uyghuristan xelqining qelbide öchmes tesirlerni qaldurdi.

Amérika erkin Aasiya Radiyosi Uyghur bölümi qurulghan 10 yil ichide japaliq we egri-toqay yollarni bésip ötüp, pidakarliq we qeyserlik bilen izdinip, mukemmelleshken, zamaniwiylashqan, sistimlashqan bir muessege aylinip, Milliy herkitimizdiki ghayet zor istiqbalgha ige milliy médiye ishlirimizning hul téshini weten siritida barliqqa keltürdi.

Amérika Erkin Asiya Radiyosi Uyghur bölümi yoqarqi 10 yil ichide xelqimiz kütkendek programmilarni tarqitip, Uyghuristan xelqining milliy jasaritini, ishench we siyasiy ghayisini küchlendüridighan mezmuni mol, renggareng programmilarni ishlep mustemlike astidiki Uyghuristanning yangraq sadasigha aylandi.Xelqimizning muntizim eqliy we maddiy asasqa ige dosti we söhbetdéshi bolup yétiship chiqti.Uning weten ichi we weten siritidiki Uyghuristanliqlarning milliy musteqilliq ishlirimizdiki pikir almashturush, öz-ara chüshünüsh, mewjut meseliler heqqide birlikte izdinish, yol échip ilgirlesh ishlirigha qoshqan töhpisi üchün alahiyde minnetdarliqimizni bildürimiz.

Radiyoda ün-tünsiz ishlewatqan, 20 milyondin artuq Uyghuristan xelqining meniwiy, siyasiy we insaniy heq-hoquqliri üchün pidakarliq körsütiwatqan Dolqun Qembiri ependi bashliq barliq xadimlargha gheyret we jasaret, japagha chidap izdinish rohiy we cheksiz utuqlar tileymiz.Uningdin bashqa biz yene uzaqqa qalmay Uyghuristanning milliy musteqilliqni mushu radiyo arqiliq dunyagha jakarlashni ching dilimizdin arzu qilimiz. Xelqimiz Amérika xelqining Uyghuristan millitining béshigha éghir balayi-apetler kelgen bu mudhish künlerde bizge qilghan bu dostane ghemxorluqni hergiz unutmaydu!

Sherqiytürkistan Birliki Teshkilati

18-Dikabér Gérmaniye/Frankfurt

Men get death for pre-Olympic attack

From correspondents in Beijing
December 17, 2008 09:52pm

CHINA has sentenced two people to death for an attack earlier this year that killed 17 people in the restive border region of Xinjiang.

Attackers rammed a truck into paramilitary police on a morning training run on August 4 in the oasis city of Kashgar, following up their attack with explosives, a homemade gun and knives.

Fifteen were injured in the attack, which took place just a few days before the Beijing Olympics began.

The two Kashgar residents, identified as Abdurahman Azat, 33, and Kurbanjan Hemit, 28, were convicted of intentional homicide and illegally producing guns, ammunition and explosives by the Intermediate People's Court of Kashgar, Xinhua news agency said.

The two are a taxi driver and vegetable seller who were "bent on jihad", the city's Communist Party secretary said in August. One of the men lost his arm when he set off an explosive device during the attack.

Xinjiang is home to the Uighur people, a largely Muslim ethnic group whose language is related to Turkish. Many chafe under Han Chinese rule, complaining that they are marginalised economically and politically in their own land.

Chinese officials have said Uighur militants seeking to turn the region into an independent "East Turkestan" are among the biggest threats to the country's stability.

From: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24816518-5005962,00.html

Uyghur Woman Faces Forced Abortion
2008-11-13



An ethnic Uyghur woman faces an imminent abortion of her third child.

AFP Photo

Uyghur women in Aksu, in China's western Xinjiang autonomous region, July 31, 2008.

HONG KONG—Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children.

As a member of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority, Tursun is legally permitted to more than the one child allowed most people in China. But when word of a third pregnancy reached local authorities, they coerced her into the hospital for an abortion, according to her husband.

"Arzigul is being kept in bed number three," a nurse in the women's section at Gulja's Water Gate Hospital said in a telephone interview. "We will give an injection first. Then she will experience abdominal pain, and the baby will come out by itself. But we haven't given her any injection yet—we are waiting for instructions from the doctors."

China's one-child-per-family policy applies mainly to majority Han Chinese but allows ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, to have additional children, with peasants permitted to have three children and city-dwellers two.
...They have to pay a fine of 45,000 yuan (U.S. $6,590)—that's a lot of money, and they won't have it."

Family planning official Rashide
But while Tursun is a peasant, her husband, Nurmemet Tohtasin, is from the city of Gulja [in Chinese, Yining] so their status is unclear. The couple live with their two children in Bulaq village, Dadamtu township, in Gulja.

Their experience sheds rare light on how China's one-child policy is enforced in remote parts of the country, through fines, financial incentives, and heavy-handed coercion by zealous local officials eager to meet population targets set by cadres higher up.

"My wife is being kept in the hospital—village officials are guarding her," Tohtisin said before authorities directed him late Thursday to switch off his mobile phone.

"When she fled the village to avoid abortion, police and Party officials, and the family planning committee officials, all came and interrogated us," he said. "The deputy chief of the village, a Chinese woman named Wei Yenhua, threatened that if we didn't find Arzigul and bring her to the village, she would confiscate our land and all our property."Steep fines.

On Nov. 11, Tohtisin said, an official named Rashide from the village family planning committee came to their home and escorted the couple, along with Arzigul's father, to the Gulja's municipal Water Gate Hospital.

There, Tohtisin said, he was pressured into signing forms authorizing an abortion.

"The abortion should be carried out because according to the family planning policy of China, you're not allowed to have more children than the government has regulated. Therefore she should undergo an abortion. This is their third child. She is 6-1/2 months pregnant now," Rashide said.

"If her health is normal, then the abortion will definitely take place. Otherwise they have to pay a fine in the amount of 45,000 yuan (U.S. $6,590)—that's a lot of money, and they won't have it," she added.

Arzigul Tursun's abortion was originally scheduled for Thursday, but hospital authorities said they had postponed it until Monday after numerous calls from local and exiled Uyghurs.

Officials then told her husband to switch off his mobile phone and stop making calls.

Carrots and sticks
According to the official news agency, Xinhua, Uyghurs in the countryside are permitted three children while city-dwellers may have two.

Under "special circumstances," rural families are permitted one more child, although what constitutes special circumstances was unclear.
The government also uses financial incentives and disincentives to keep the birthrate low.

Couples can also pay steep fines to have more children, although the fines are well beyond most people's means.

The official Web site China Xinjiang Web reports that in Kashgar, Hotan, and Kizilsu [in Chinese, Kezilesu], areas populated almost entirely by Uyghurs, women over 49 with only one child are entitled to a one-time payment of 3,000 yuan (U.S. $440), with the couple receiving 600 yuan (U.S. $88) yearly afterward.

China's official Tianshan Net reported that population control policies in Xinjiang have prevented the births of some 3.7 million people over the last 30 years.

And according to China Xinjiang Web on Sept. 26, 2008, the government will spend 25.6 million yuan (U.S. $3.7 million) this year rewarding families who have followed the population policy.

The one-child policy is enforced more strictly in cities, but penalties for exceeding a family's quota can be severe, including job losses, demotions, or expulsion from the Party, experts say.

Officials at all levels are subject to rewards or penalties based on whether they meet population targets set by their administrative region.
Citizens are legally entitled to sue officials who they believe have overstepped their authority in enforcing the policy.

Congressional appeal
Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives, appealed on Thursday to Chinese Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong to intervene.

"Human rights groups and the U.S. government will be watching very carefully to see what happens to Arzigul and her family," Smith, senior member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, said in a statement. "I appeal to the Chinese government not to forcibly abort Arzigul."

Tense relations
Relations between Chinese authorities and the Uyghur population have a long and tense history.

Uyghurs formed two short-lived East Turkestan republics in the 1930s and 40s during the Chinese civil war and the Japanese invasion.
But China subsequently took control of the region, and Beijing has in recent years launched a campaign against Uyghur separatism, which it regards as a war on Islamic terrorism.

It has also accused "hostile forces" in the West of fomenting unrest in the strategically important and resource-rich region, which borders several countries in Central Asia.

Original reporting in Uyghur by Shohret Hoshur. Uyghur service director: Dolkun Kamberi. Written and produced for the Web in English by Sarah Jackson-Han. Edited by Joshua Lipes. #

From:http://www.rfa.org/english/

People’s Republic of China

-Report for the consideration of the Committee against Torture in advance of their session on the fourth periodic report to the Committee of the People’s Republic of China



3 – 21 November 2008

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has prepared this report in collaboration with the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) for the consideration by the Committee Against Torture (CAT) on the eve of their session on the fourth periodical report submitted to it by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in line with the provisions as laid down in the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereafter “the Convention”). This report particularly focuses on the Muslim Uyghur population of East Turkestan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, XUAR), considering the fact that minorities are at larger risk within the PRC of being subjected to torture[1]. The embracement of Islam makes the Uyghur population a simple scapegoat under the justification of the “war on terror”.



Article 1 – definition of torture

Despite recommendations made by this very committee, which have been echoed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereafter “the Special Rapporteur”), the PRC has yet to bring their national law in accordance with the definition of torture within the Convention. A particular list of offenses has been deemed to relate to or result in torture, however, no overarching definition has been provided, leaving room for interpretation and loopholes for those that wish to do harm.



Article 2 – preventive measures – and Article 10 – education and information

With regards to the measures that the PRC is to take in order to prevent the occurrence of torture, it has become evident that law enforcement officers and other governmental officials burdened with the duties of maintaining public order are not sufficiently trained and penal measures against those that do inflict torture are not sufficiently in place[2]. A culture of oppression thrives in detention centres, police stations and prisons in XUAR and torture as a means of racial discrimination is not sufficiently prevented. Even if the national legislation has laws and regulations in place with the aim of eradicating and criminalizing practises of torture, the implementation on the local level is severely lacking. Strengthening of the regional institutions and addressing flawed procedures can improve the dire situation.



Article 3 – extradition in the face of torture

Apart from having an obligation under the Convention to prevent nationals from being extradited to states where they upon extradition may face torture, the PRC itself has instigated an active policy of forcefully returning Chinese nationals, even if they have received refugee status or asylum in another state. Upon return in the PRC national minorities, such as Uyghurs, are facing a severe risk of being tortured as a form of punishment in addition to sentencing those forcefully returned persons to long jail sentences of alleged crimes, usually relating to ‘subverting state power’, ‘separatism’, ‘undermining the unity of the country’ or involvement in the illegal communication of ‘state secrets’. Unfortunately, the PRC is not solely responsible for such acts, as other states, particularly those that are part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), wilfully cooperate with such practises even in the face of torture.

Perhaps the most well publicized case of such force repatriation is Mr. Husein Dzhelil[3], an ethnic Uyghur who had obtained Canadian citizenship after being recognized as a refugee in 2001. When visiting family in Uzbekistan, Mr. Dzhelil was detained in March 2006 and extradited by Uzbekistan to the PRC in June of the same year, without contacting the Canadian authorities. Throughout his detention, PRC officials denied his requests for consular assistance by the Canadian corps diplomatique. Testimonials of Mr. Dzhelil reveal that in the first two weeks of his detention in the PRC he was deprived of sleep and food and that he regularly received threats to his life if he refused to sign an official document, which was later to be used as his ‘confession’ to the charges against him for ‘plotting a split of the country’ and ‘joining a terrorist network’. Even though the Convention states that ‘confessions’ obtained under torture cannot be admissible in a court of law as evidence, Mr. Dzhelil was convicted for these alleged crimes on the basis of this document. On 2 February 2007 Mr. Dzhelil faced trial and despite continued requests from his side, Canadian officials were not allowed to attend the trial. On 10 July 2007 Mr. Dzhelil’s life imprisonment sentence was finalized, as the regional court rejected his appeal.



Article 4 – criminalizing torture

Over recent years, the PRC has adapted its national laws in order to criminalize torture. However, UNPO believes that most of these legislative changes have been made in regards to heavily publicized events. As such, these pieces of legislation are very particular as to method and person and as such do not encompass complete criminalization of torture. The status quo seems to have lead to a national legislation in which torture is a criminal offense only in certain cases and inflicted by certain (groups of) people, which is conduct inconsistent with the Convention.

One example torture which is not criminalized and rarely prosecuted in the PRC is forced abortion. In particular relation to the Uyghurs, forced abortion is used as a tactic of maintaining and even decreasing the population size. Since 1984, the PRC has carried out a coercive birth control and forced sterilization policies amongst the Uyghurs. Since then, under the pretext of ensuring a steady growth in “minority population”, “improving the quality of minorities”, and “eliminating economic inequalities”, the PRC has launched a series of extensive birth control and forced sterilization campaigns all over Eastern Turkestan targeting Uyghur women. Officially, the one child policy only applies to the ethnic nationalities with a population of over 10 million in PRC. With a population of 8.6 million, the Uyghur are regarded as a “minority nationality” in their land and are in theory not subject to the provisions of family planning legislation in PRC. But in practice, the birth control and sterilization policies have been actively promoted and encouraged by the PRC government in the towns and villages of Eastern Turkestan. Clearly such policies are not only discriminatory, but also inflict severe suffering – both mental and physical – upon the victims. Thus far, little action can be taken by Uyghur women as the system for complaints and remedies is also heavily discriminatory and those who do press charges or complain usually face imprisonment with elevated chances of being tortured when incarcerated.

In addition, the Special Rapporteur has indicated that the Reeducation through Labour (RTL) constitutes a violation of the human rights to personal liberty and as such constitutes a form of inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment, which can even be considered mental torture, particularly in the light of the fact that RTL is used as a discriminatory punishment. Persistent reports have indicated that maltreatment is rampant in RTL facilities and that in particular ethnic minorities – such as the Uyghurs – are often targeted within these facilities. Furthermore, ethnic minorities are more often sentenced to serve time in such facilities for minor crimes then other Chinese citizens.


Article 11 – systematic review

Despite obligations under the Convention to conduct a systematic review of civil servants and their procedures with regards to suspects and detainees, reports received by UNPO indicated that such review – if conducted at all – is sincerely lacking. The bedrock for this lack of implementation is the lack of independence within the Chinese judicial system. Police, the office of the prosecutor and courts are functioning under the supervision of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and are as such not operating independently. In addition, reports from abuse and ill-treatment in the RTL facilities, as well as the lack of responsiveness from the PRC with regards to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur in regards to the RTL, leads to suggest that these facilities are not subjected to regular intervals of independent review.



Article 12 – 14 impartial investigation

Due to the lack of impartiality within the Chinese judicial system, no investigations have been conducted to verify the use of torture within the borders of the PRC. This has been confirmed by continues report that UNPO receives of death penalty in custody in several state institutions, these include RTL facilities, police detention centres and prisons. Many of these deaths are the result of poor treatment and torture while in custody. On of the latest example is the death of Mutallip Hajim a wealthy Uyghur jade trader and philanthropist. In January 2008 Hajim was taken into custody by police in Hotan. On 3 March 2008 Hajim’s body was returned to his family. Police instructed his family to bury him immediately and inform no one of his death. Hajim was thirty-eight at the time of his death. Occasional reports in the Chinese media suggest that on rare occasions, perpetrators are punished for such violations, but in many more cases documented by networks of Uyghur human rights activists other NGOs, official investigations hardly take place and perpetrators are met with impunity. When an investigation does take place it does not meet the Conventions requirement.



Article 15 – exclusion of evidence obtained through torture from any proceedings



The Criminal Procedure Law (CPL) does not prohibit the use of confessions obtained through torture or poor treatment as evidence before the courts as required by the Convention. While revision of the law has been discussed, within China’s legislature, the National People’s Congress to this day has not introduced new laws that would explicitly prohibit the use of torture. The CPL has been amended over the years and should guarantee people no longer to be confronted with torture this i not the case. In several recent cases documented by UNPO, courts have ignored allegations made by defendants that they were subjected to torture or other ill-treatment in police custody. Most of these perpetrators enjoy impunity for their acts. The widespread use of torture in East Turkestan is confirmed by numerous reports based on interviews with Uyghur refugees who suffered torture.



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[1] The authors of this report subscribe to the definition of torture as has been laid down in Article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman of Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

[2] For more information on the lack of criminalization of torture, please see that paragraph on Article 5 of the Convention.

[3] Also known as Huseyin Celil.

Bash Ménistir Angéla Merkél Xanim Béyjingda Uyghurlar Mesilisini Otturigha Qoydi


Obzorchimiz Perhat Muhemmidi
2008-10-27


Gérmaniye bash ministiri mérkél xanimning ötken peyshenbe küni bashlinip, shenbe küni ayaqlashqan 3 künlük xitay ziyaritidin kéyin, gérmaniye metbuatlirida bu qétimqi ziyaret we uning mezmuni heqqide küchlük talash - Tartishlar dawam qilmaqta.




Küchlük Dunya Lederliridin Möhtirem Angela Merkél Xanim

Mérkél xanim bu qétimqi xitay ziyariti jeryanida, tibet mesilisi bilen birge yene, uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq weziyitinimu alahide tilgha alghan shundaqla gérmaniye hökümitining bu ikki rayonning kishilik hoqoq weziyitige yéqindin diqqet qiliwatqanliqini eskertken idi.

Bu, gérmaniye tarixida bir bash ministirning tunji qétim " uyghur " dégen kelimini tilgha élishi, shundaqla xitay bilen bolghan muzakirilerde uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq mesilisini biwaste otturigha qoyushi bolup hésablinidu. Shunga, mérkél xanimning bu herikiti, chetellerde, jümlidin gérmaniyide paaliyet élip bériwatqan uyghur teshkilatlirini we uyghur siyasiy paaliyetchilirini cheksiz söyündürüpla qalmastin, gérmaniyidiki kishilik hoqoq teshkilatlirini we uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq weziyitige köngül bölüp kéliwatqan siyasiy partiyilernimu alahide memnun qildi.

Mesilen, xelqara kechürüm teshkilati gérmaniye shöbisining bash katipi barbara xanim 10 - Ayning 25 - Küni muxbirlargha qilghan sözide, mérkél xanimning bu qétimqi jesurane herikiti teriplesh bilen birge, xitay bilen bolghan muzakirilerde nöwettiki iqtisadi krizis bilen birge yene, kishilik hoqoq mesilisiningmu daim küntertipte bolushi lazimliqini, chünki tibetlikler bilen uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq weziyitining intayin nachar bir weziyette turuwatqanliqini tekitlidi.

Gérmaniye yéshillar partiyisi bolsa uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq weziyitige eng aktip köngül bölüwatqan siyasiy partiyilerning biri bolup, gérmaniyidiki uyghur teshkilatliri bilenmu yéqin dialog qurup kelmekte. Uyghur milliy herikitining rehbiri we dunya uyghur qurultiyining reisi rabiye qadir xanim bu yil 4 - Ayda bérlinda gérmaniye yéshillar partiyisining hazirqi reisi klaodia roht xanim bilen körüshüp, uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq weziyiti heqqide etrapliq söhbet élip barghan idi.

Gérmaniye hökümitide uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq mesilisini tunji bolup tilgha alghan eng yuqiri derijilik emeldar gérmaniyining sabiq tashqi ishlar ministiri we gérmaniye yéshillar partiyisining sabiq reisi fisher ependi bolup, fisher ependi bir qanche yil burun jenwede chaqirilghan birleshken döletler teshkilati kishilik hoqoq komitéti omumiy yighinida qilghan sözide, xitayning uyghurlargha qaratqan kishilik hoqoq tajawuzchiliq qilmishlirini qattiq eyibligen idi. Shunga, gérmaniye bash ministiri mérkél xanimning bu qétimqi xitay ziyariti jeryanida uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq mesilisini tilgha élishi, hazir gérmaniyidiki eng asasliq öktichi partiye hésablanghan yéshillar partiyisinimu memnun qildi.

Mesilen, gérmaniye parlaméntidiki yéshillar partiyisi parlamént ezaliri ömikining reisi wolker bekk ependi, 10 - Ayning 26 - Küni gérmaniye gherbiy jenub radiosida qilghan sözide, bash ministir mérkél xanimning kishilik hoqoq mesilisi jehettiki bu xil sezgürlükini üzüp qoymay dawamlashturushini ümid qilidighanliqini bildürdi we " iqtisadi krizis mezgilliride kishiler kishilik hoqoq mesilisige sel qaraydu, emma kishilik hoqoq mesilisige sel qarisaq, iqtisadni uzun muddet saghlam tereqqi qilduralmaymiz, shunga ikki mesilini her waqit parallil halda birge élip bérishimiz lazim " dep körsetti.

Wolker bekk ependi yene, olimpik sewebi bilen xitayning axbarat saheside bir az yumshash körülgen bolsimu, emma tibet bilen sherqiy türkistanda bu jehette héchbir özgirishning bolmighanliqini, bu ikki rayonning kishilik hoqoq weziyitining yenila intayin berbat bir weziyette turuwatqanliqini, köpligen kishilerning tutqun qilinip türmilerge tashliniwatqanliqini, shu sewebtin bu ikki rayonning hazir dunyaning diqqet - Étibarini qozghawatqanliqini eskertip kélip, " shunga bash ministir mérkél xanimning bu ikki rayongha qiziqiwatqanliqini, xitay dairilirige bildürüp qoyushi nahayiti muhim " dep körsetti.

Wolker bekk ependi yene, iqtisadni tereqqi qildurush bilen, kishilik hoquqni yaxshilashning ayrim ikki mesile ikenlikini, iqtisadni tereqqi qildursamla hemme mesile ongshilidu dep qarashning xata ikenlikini eskertip kélip, " mesilen, putinning rusiyisi janliq bir örnek, putin rusiyining iqtisadini tereqqi qildurdi, emma rusiyining kishilik hoqoq weziyiti kündin - Künge nacharlishiwatidu " dep körsetti.

Gérmaniye metbuatlirining xewiride körsitilishiche, mérkél xanimning bu qétim béyjingda uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq mesilisini tilgha élishida, gérmaniye yéshillar partiyisining we gérmaniyidiki kishilik hoqoq teshkilatlirining oynighan roli chong bolghan. Ziyaret harpisida, dunya uyghur qurultiyi bashchiliqidiki uyghur teshkilatliri we tibet teshkilatliridin sirt yene, gérmaniye yéshillar partiyisi, xelqara kechürüm teshkilati, dunya xeter astidiki milletlerni qoghdash teshkilati, gérmaniye kishilik hoqoq teshkilati qatarliq köpligen siyasiy partiye we kishilik hoqoq teshkilatliri gérmaniye hökümitige we mérkél xanimgha murajetname we mektup yollap, xitay rehberliri bilen élip baridighan muzakirilerde tibetlikler bilen uyghurlarning kishilik hoqoq weziyitini küntertipke kirgüzüshni telep qilghan idi.

Gérmaniye metbuatlirida körsitilishiche, xitay hökümiti özlirining yawropa birliki bilen yaki gérmaniye bilen bolghan munasiwetlirini noqul halda, " peqetla soda - Sétiq munasiwiti " dep qaraydu, shunga yawropa birlikige eza döletler kishilik hoqoq mesilisini tilgha alghan haman xitay terep, " ichki ishlirimizgha qopalliq bilen arilashti " dep naraziliq bildüridu.

Ötken yili gérmaniye bash ministiri mérkél xanim bérlinda dalay lamani qobul qilip körüshkendimu xitay hökümiti, " ichki ishlirimizgha qopalliq bilen arilashti" dep qiyamet qopurup mérkél xanimgha qattiq hujum qilghan, mérkél xanim bolsa, " démokratik bir döletning bash ministiri bolush süpitim bilen, her qandaq bir milletning wekili bilen, her qandaq bir kishilik hoqoq jengchisi bilen körüshüsh hoququm bar " jawab bergen, bu sewebtin xitay bilen gérmaniye munasiwetliri bir mezgil dawalghushqa duch kelgen idi.

Emeliyette bolsa, yawropa birlikining xitaygha qaratqan omumiy istratégiyisining peqet soda munasiwetlernila emes, belki xitayning démokratiyilishishini ilgiri sürüsh, xitayni siyasiy, ijtimaiy,qanuniy, memuriy, medeniy - Maarip, muhitni qoghdash ... Qatarliq nurghun jehetlerde islahat élip bérishigha heydekchilik qilishtin ibaret köp tereplimilik mezmunlarni öz ichige alghanliqi shundaqla, kishilik hoqoq mesilisiningmu yawropa birlikining xitaygha qaratqan istratégiyisining muhim mezmunlirining biri ikenliki körülmekte.

Mesilen, ötkende byüriksélde élan qilinghan yawropa birlikining xitaygha qaritidighan istratégiyilik pilanida, yawropa birlikining kishilik hoqoq mesiliside xitay bilen bolghan söhbetlerni kücheytidighanliqi alahide tekitlinish bilen birge, "yawropa birliki, junggoning qanun we démokratik asaslargha tayanghan erkin bir jemiyetke qarap yüzlinishini ümid qilidu, junggo, yawropa birlikining sherqqe kéngiyishi jeryanidiki tejribe - Sawaqlirini qobul qilishi lazim, chünki ilgiriki köpligen sotsiyalistik döletler bu jeryanda özlirining qurulmisini tedriji halda yawropa birlikining ölchemlirige maslashturghan idi " dep körsitilgen idi. Yeni yawropa birliki xitayni sotsiyalizimdin waz kéchip, démokratik bir séstimigha köchüshke ashkara dalalet qilghan idi.

Menbe:http://www.rfa.org/uyghur/obzor/obzor-parhat-10272008205202.html/story_main?encoding=latin

Green Edge 5: Farm Aid in Islamic China

Posted August 5, 2008 05:08 AM (EST)

Not so very far from yesterday's bombing that killed 16 police officers, in a region subject to a recent Chinese crackdown to protect the Olympics, Martin Ma manages a program to improve the workplace conditions of Xinjiang cotton farmers. He is simultaneously seeking to remedy the environmental problems of pesticide and the deep poverty of the farm workers. He works for Social Accountability International (SAI) in New York City under a four-year grant from the Netherlands development agency Solidaridad, which tries out new ways to lift people out of poverty and danger wherever they live or work.

For Solidaridad, the project is designed to improve the social and environmental standards of the supply chain for cotton to the Netherlands. It is pushing and helping Xinjiang smallholder farmers to form a cooperative, and pushing and helping a large farm to go organic to reduce chemical dangers to workers. The idea is that some day the farms will meet organic standards and be certified by the Dutch certification body SKAL, and meanwhile conditions for workers will improve.

The project is focused on a big farm with 50 farm workers in one village and on two neighboring villages with 1,250 residents of which 417 are local small farmers. The communities are Aksu, Kuqa and Korla, indicated by red dots on the map below, on the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Western China. The project will work with the smaller farms as part of a long-term plan to allow expansion of production. Many workers migrate from Urumqi to the northeast, in East Turkistan (just east of the border with Russian Turkistan, which describes the five Turkic republics that were part of the former Soviet Union and are now independent), which the Chinese call Xinjiang or "New Frontier."

The area includes many migrant farm workers, and most of these are indigenous Turkic-speaking Muslims known as the Uighurs (pronounced Weegers), who remained behind after the many centuries of migrations of Turkic peoples toward the west. In addition, the area has some Yi people who have migrated from North Vietnam via train with the help of agents who are paid by the farm-owners and who bring the migrant workers in SUVs and trucks.

A farm owner was initially reluctant to sign up for the program, but was reassured when the contribution to the project of the funding sources was explained. The farm owner is an entrepreneur who saw the potential cost to himself of the project and was skeptical that the value to him of the project would exceed its costs. Then two farm workers on the next farm were killed by a tractor. This event shocked the farm owner into a greater appreciation of the dangers his own workers could be facing, and he signed up.

The August 4 Bombing. Kashgar, the westernmost city in China where 16 Chinese border police were killed yesterday, is southwest of the three sites where Solidaridad and SAI have their project to assist local farmers (see map). The two attackers were linked to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a coalition (if it really exists -- some scholars question this) of Uighur advocacy groups that China calls terrorists. The United States reported in 2002 that al Qaeda was targeting the Uighurs and the London Times reports today that the Sunni group Hizb ut-Tahrir is doing the same.

The attack was not a total surprise. Last month, three people were executed in a town near Kashgar after being convicted of being ETIM members. A day earlier, five Uighurs died after a police raid on a middle-class home in Urumqi. Chinese officials have said that some local groups are tied to foreign Islamist extremists that are training Uighurs to bomb. The Public Security Bureau announced in April that it had arrested 45 people in two Uighur terrorist cells allegedly tied to the ETIM and plotting to disrupt hotels during the Olympics, for a total of 82 persons arrested as terrorists in Xinjiang through June. However, the province's vice-governor said last week there were "only a small number" of violent incidents in the region.

Human rights groups and some academics say the Chinese government exaggerates the threat to justify local crackdown and fails to distinguish among extremists, proponents of Turkic independence and advocates of Islamic culture. The Chinese Government forbids public display of the Uighur language or faith and Uighur defenders argue that violent incidents in Kashgar and elsewhere result from personal conflicts or security crackdowns, not terrorism. Prof. John Wang at California State University at Long Beach says the ETIM was much more active in 1993-1997 and since 2001 has retreated to Afghanistan and other places outside China. But the Olympic Games might have drawn them back.

Improving Uighur Productivity. The Uighurs are China's fifth-largest ethnic minority, with 8 million people concentrated in Xinjiang Province. Many of the Uighurs are unhappy over the growing migration to the area of Han Chinese ands their powerful and growing domination of business and local government in Xinjiang, a province that is described as "autonomous", implying that it is ruled by its own people. Han residents respond that Uighurs are not yet capable of managing the regional economy or administration.

The Uighurs are certainly poor. The 1,300 Uighurs who depend for their incomes on the farms in this project earn an annual income at current rates of exchange of $150. The official Chinese poverty line is $100 a year, which would imply 20 million poor Chinese people. If the line were raised to the $1 a day level used by the U.N., or $365 a year, the estimate for the number of poor people would rise to 140 million, more than 10 percent of the Chinese population. Either way, the Uighur farm workers live on very little.

The goal that Martin Ma (shown in front of SAI headquarters in New York City) is seeking to implement is to improve workplace conditions, productivity and pay of the Uighurs on selected farms in the area and also to ensure the organic quality of their cotton products. The brands that buy cotton from the area are willing to pay for conversion of the cotton crops to organic production, with Solidaridad covering some of the cost of conversion. For the organic component, the project has hired someone with 15 years' experience growing cotton used in natural-color textiles.

Protected Cotton. Cotton is protected by the Chinese government. In fact negotiations started in 2001 at the World Trade Organization on a new trade liberalization round have just collapsed in part because China did not want to give up its protection for agricultural goods. (See "The Doha Round... and Round... and Round," The Economist, July 31, 2008.) Agricultural trade accounts for only 8 percent of world merchandise trade but is the most heavily distorted by tariffs and subsidies. The 1994 Uruguay round required countries to convert their quotas and other barriers into straightforward tariffs, but countries were allowed to impose "special safeguard" duties to protect themselves. These duties have been relied on to protect politically sensitive commodities. China has decided that the best response to high food prices was to protect its own farmers.

Because Chinese cotton is protected, it needs to sell overseas as a premium product, which adds to the importance of certification according to organic and decent workplace standards. The project provides technical assistance for conversion to organic production, workplace certification and ethical trading. It also offers the farmers a market analysis. In the meantime the project is seeking to show the workers that it can deliver for them by working immediately on compliance with decent workplace standards. It is obtaining social insurance for farm workers and is making basic improvements such as installing running water and toilets, and providing daycare assistance for women who would otherwise bring their infant children to work with them in the fields.

Solidaridad's Role. Solidaridad is behind it all. Its approach is to use global market forces (for example, the influence of brands over their suppliers) as leverage for ambitious social change projects in developing nations, spending time organizing buyers in Europe and relying on existing well-known social and environmental standards like SA8000 and Fair Trade as evidence of compliance by farms overseas. It focuses on the product quality and therefore seeks to organize small farmers into cooperatives for mutual support. Sometimes Solidaridad creates its own brands, such as Oke fruits and Kuyichi jeans, and then makes these businesses independently. It also stresses farm ownership -- for example, both AgroFair and Kuyichi are partly owned by farmers in Latin America and Africa.

The fair-trade component is a hallmark of Solidaridad's programs. A director of Solidaridad, Nico Roozen, is a Dutch economist who with Frans van der Hoff was a key figure in launching Max Havelaar, the first ethical trading certification. Roozen helped convince major Dutch retailers to offer fairtrade-labeled goods, which contributed to the commercial success of fair-trade certification. He is also a member of the SAI Advisory Board.Solidaridad has been represented in China by Jeroen Douglas, who previously worked on fair-trade bananas (branded as Oke) in Honduras and Nicaragua. He made a trip to Chinese farms to survey their social conditions in 2005 and the following year Solidaridad invited SAI to co-manage its program in China. Under the Made-By name, Solidaridad is seeking to create a flagship fashion chain in China embracing its three themes -- ecological cotton, fair-trade and responsible workplaces.

Edwin Koster works with Douglas as Solidaridad's manager for the textile and fashion sector and is an alternate member of the SAI Advisory Board. His responsibility is, in collaboration with Made-By, to develop sustainable fashion chains that can benefit the environment, farmers and workers, and has visited China to move the project along.

By addressing in the same location both extreme poverty and acute environmental stress, this project can demonstrate how to create a decent workplace. Doing this will improve life for hundreds of families, and give their children some hope of a better future. Is it too much to think, that this project will also help reduce causes of conflict and reduce the ability of terrorists to recruit new members?Full disclosure: John Tepper Marlin has been married for nearly 37 years to Alice Tepper Marlin, who is the President of SAI.

Menbe:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tepper-marlin/green-edge-5-farm-aid-in_b_116930.html

China releases "terror" blacklist in Olympic plot

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press Writer

In this combo made from photos released on Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008 by China's Public Security Ministry showing 7 of the 8 Chinese nationals accused of plotting terror acts targeting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. From top left Memetimin Memet, Emet Yakuf, Memettursun Imin, Xemsidinahmet Abdumijit and from bottom left Akrem Omerjan, Yakuf Memet, and Tursun Tohti. Photo of the eighth accused Memettursun Abuduhalik was not made available. Chinese police on Tuesday called for the arrest and extradition to China of the eight alleged Islamic terror group leaders and core members accused of targeting the Beijing Olympics. (AP Photo/China's Public Security Ministry, HO)

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese police called Tuesday for the extradition of eight alleged separatists accused of plotting a campaign of terror to coincide with the Beijing Olympics _ a scheme that reportedly included bomb attacks within China and in unspecified countries in the Middle East and South Asia.

A Public Security Ministry spokesman said the eight men, all Chinese citizens, were believed to have financed, incited and organized attacks during and around the Aug. 8-24 games as part of an ongoing insurgency against Chinese rule in the traditionally Muslim west.

Wu Heping told reporters at a news briefing that the men were members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a murky collection of extremists believed to be based across the border in lawless areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The eight "seriously threatened the security of the Beijing Olympic Games and China's social stability, while at the same time composing a threat to the security and stability of relevant countries and the region," Wu said.

Wu did not say in what country the men were suspected of hiding and left the briefing without taking questions.

He said one of the men planned to bomb a supermarket popular with Chinese business people in an unspecified Middle Eastern country ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games. Another suspect had prepared to attack a Chinese club in a South Asian nation, he said, without giving details.

The men also organized numerous attacks within China but it was not clear from Wu's statement if any of them were carried out.

After years of relative quiet, the western region of Uyghuristan/Xinjiang was rocked in August by a series of guerrilla-style attacks and bombings that killed 33 people.

Wu did not say if the eight men were thought to be behind those attacks.

The violence was reportedly carried out by radicals among Uyghuristan/Xinjiang's native Uighur ethnic group, Muslims whose language, culture and religion are distinct from China's Han majority's. Like Tibetans, many Uighurs complain of a colonial-style Chinese presence on their territory, chafing under tight religious and cultural strictures and complaining that economic development has disproportionately benefited Chinese migrants.

Radical Uighurs opposed to Chinese rule have long waged a low intensity campaign of bombings and assassinations against Chinese officials. But terrorism experts say the struggle has taken a deadlier, more radical turn in recent years through exposure to global terror groups such as al-Qaida.

Seventeen Chinese Uighurs have been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since their capture in Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001 despite having been deemed unthreatening and cleared for release.

China has demanded the detainees be repatriated, but Washington has refused to do so because of fears they will tortured and executed. Albania accepted five Uighur detainees in 2006 but since has balked at taking others, partly for fear of diplomatic repercussions from China.

China claims that it foiled a number of terrorist plots this year before they could be carried out, including an alleged attempt by a 19-year-old woman to blow up a Beijing-bound plane with liquid explosives in March. But it has provided little direct evidence to support claims that Islamic Movement leaders based across the border ordered the attacks.

Overseas Uighur activists say such accusations are politically motivated and designed to justify strict curbs on religious, political and cultural rights in Uyghuristan.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Germany-based World Uighur Congress, said Tuesday's announcement was part of an attempt to provide legal cover for a wide-ranging crackdown on Uighurs that followed the Olympics.

Business security consultants International Risk said the Chinese crackdown was likely to continue.

"In the aftermath of the Olympics, the Chinese authorities have quietly stepped up their crackdown in Xinjiang," the Hong Kong-based company said in a report on global terrorism issued this month.

A news release issued at Wu's press conference offered basic biographical information about the suspects and photographs of seven of the eight men.

It identified one man, 37-year-old Memetiming Memeti, as the leader of the ETIM movement, saying he had joined the group in an unidentified South Asian country after leaving home in 1998 and assumed the leadership after its former chief was killed in a skirmish with security forces in Pakistan in 2003.

The statement said that under Memeti's guidance an unspecified number of terrorists sneaked into Uyghuristan and other Chinese areas with plans to "sabotage the Olympic Games by conducting terrorist attacks within the Chinese territory before the Games opened."

He also allegedly "sent dozens of terrorist teams to some Middle East and west Asian countries to raise funds and buy explosive materials for terrorist attacks against Chinese targets outside Chinese territory."

Others accused include 33-year-old university graduate Tuersun Toheti, an alleged bomb maker blamed for planning attacks on Chinese targets outside the country.

Li Wei, a counterterrorism expert at a Chinese government-backed think tank, said Tuesday's announcement was a sign of China's sustained commitment to defeating the extremists following the end of the Olympics.

"China's major investment in Olympic security has helped them apprehend evidence of potential terrorist activity," he said.


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Hunt is on for Uygur eight

Wednesday, October 22, 2008



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Beijing has published a list of eight men from its Muslim northwest who it said are terrorists and had threatened the Beijing Olympics in August and appealed to other countries for help in finding them.
"All the eight terrorists listed are members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement," Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping said.

"And they all took part in plotting, organizing and executing various terrorist activities targeting the Beijing Olympic Games."

The movement, listed by China, the United States and the United Nations as a terrorist organization, has been striving for many years to create an independent homeland in the Muslim-populated Xinjiang region.

Xinjiang is a vast area of mountains and deserts that borders central Asia. Many of its 8.3 million Uygurs, a Muslim minority speaking a Turkic language, say they have suffered decades of repression under communist rule.

Further, Uygur dissidents and rights groups claim Beijing has exaggerated the terrorism threat in Xinjiang to justify a harsh security crackdown there.

Wu appealed to other countries for help in capturing the eight: "We hope the governments of relevant countries and law-enforcement agencies will track them down, immediately arrest them and hand them over to China so that we can hold them responsible for their crimes."

All eight are Chinese nationals with Uygur names. Wu alleged some of them organized terrorist training, recruited members, raised funds for terrorist activities and manufactured poisons and explosives. Others participated in militant training.

China reported a wave of violence before and during the Beijing Olympic Games in Xinjiang and laid much of the blame on militant Uygurs. Authorities said more than 30 people died in violence in Xinjiang during August.

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New Land Clash in China
2008-10-15
A new clash erupts in southern China over the value of farmland slated for development.

Images from a video sent by a witness of clashes in Guangning county, Guangdong province.

HONG KONG—Police fired tear-gas and detained more than a dozen villagers in China’s southern Guangdong province during a clash with hundreds of demonstrators protesting what they describe as inadequate compensation for their farmland, witnesses said.

A witness surnamed Li said violence broke out Tuesday when villagers from Guangning county tried to stop construction workers from filling in their farmland with soil for the building of an industrial park.

“Hundreds of us villagers tried to stop the equipment from reaching the farmland. They mobilized more than 1,000 police and used tear-gas on us. The villagers were incapacitated. Then they threw rocks at the villagers and beat them,” Li said.

Police moved into the villages and rounded up participants, he said. “The police have cordoned off the villages and many are unable to leave the villages. More than a dozen from Hebu, Chayuan, and Mabu villages were detained."
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A video sent by a witness acting as a citizen journalist in Guangning county, Guangdong province.



Another witness, a woman surnamed Xie, said scores were injured in the incident, including many elderly villagers. “There were between 1,000 and 2,000 police. Many villagers were beaten,” Xie said.

I cannot make calls to the outside, but outside people can call me...Other villagers can make only local calls."


“Villagers in their 70s and 80s marched ahead of the crowd. They didn’t want their children and grandchildren to lose the land. The police pushed them, they fell. The young ones went up to help them. And the police started beating people,” she said.

Ma Meiju, a woman in her 50s from Chayuan village, was beaten by armed police and admitted to Guangning county hospital for treatment, her son said.

When her husband, Li Hairong, and younger son, Li Jincai, tried to intervene, the two were arrested on charges of obstruction of official business.

“Three or four armed police pushed my mom down in the woods and beat her over the head with a wooden stick. They also kicked her in the stomach and the leg,” Ma's elder son said.

“My dad and brother went up with a couple of bottles containing gasoline and were detained on charges of obstruction of official business. Who could stand by and watch when their mom and wife are beaten? Something is wrong with police beating a woman,” he said.

On Wednesday, villagers said hundreds of police remained on alert and were searching for three people identified as protest ringleaders, identified as Li Fujing, Li Qiaozhong and Lu Dahua.

A Dong, a resident of Cha Yuan village, said police had posted “wanted” photos of three people accused of “obstructing government work” and urged residents to share information about them. “We’re still wondering what crimes they are accused of committing,” he said.

Officials have warned residents that they must submit land compensation claims by Oct. 22.

Car torched

Villagers said that police had searched the home of one of the wanted men, Li Fujing, and that unidentified people set his car on fire. Another witness reported seeing four vehicles ablaze around 2 a.m. Wednesday.

“The fire broke out suddenly…Many people woke up and tried to put out the fire. There are many residential houses nearby,” one villager surnamed Li said.

Another villager surnamed Xie said Li’s home “was searched and somebody set his personal property on fire. I think they just want to smoke them out to turn themselves in."

Checkpoints, phone trouble

Another villager surnamed Lin returned home Wednesday after leaving briefly to avoid trouble with the police. He said many villagers’ mobile phones weren’t working and police were out in force.

“Many armed police are standing guard at every entrance to the village and roadblocks have been set up too,” Lin said. “Passengers in cars are subject to ID checks. I saw hundreds of police just in our village—and lots of plainclothes police around all the affected villages. “

Officials at the county police station hung up the phone when contacted by a Hong Kong-based reporter.

“I cannot make calls to the outside, but outside people can call me,” one villager said. “And other villagers can make only local calls. I first noticed this problem on Oct. 13.”

Villagers 'causing trouble'

A Wuhe township government official who refused to give his name and job title acknowledged that efforts were made to expropriate farmland on Monday, that police were called in to maintain order, and that some villagers had been detained.

“On Monday a small number of villagers caused trouble. We requested assistance from police to maintain order. After the crowd was dispersed on Monday, the construction went ahead as planned today,” the official said.

He declined to say exactly how many villagers had been detained.

According to the Wuhe township government official, the industrial park requires the expropriation of more than 1,000 mu (67 hectares) of farmland.

He said the villagers had been compensated at an above-market rate and only a small number had resisted the land expropriation because of their belief in fengshui, an ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to create harmony through physical surroundings.

“The industrial park is a municipal-level priority project. The entire expropriation process was conducted in accordance with the law, but some villagers refuse to turn the land over because of their superstitious belief in fengshui,” the official said.

The villagers claim that they were only offered a one-off compensation scheme at the rate of 16,000 yuan (U.S. $2,344) for each mu expropriated. Many were unhappy with the offer and said they had signed several petitions during the last year.

Intimidation tactics

One woman, surnamed Li, said that the authorities pressured villagers to sign the land-sale agreement, and in late September even began to intimidate their children.

“The kids came home from school and said they were forced to sign statements vowing not to cause trouble. It’s the right thing to do for farmers to protect their farmland. We never signed the agreement to sell the land,” she said.

“But they carried out the scheme anyway. And now they are after those of us who petitioned our case. The people’s police [are] in full gear, including bullet-proof vests, and with police dogs,” Li said.

Villagers said that as of late Tuesday between 40 and 50 villagers were still under surveillance.

Some were taken away and their whereabouts are unknown. They said that when reporters from the Zhujiang Daily, a local newspaper, tried to go to the protest site, the trip was inexplicably cancelled.

Land protests spreading

Land disputes have spread across China in recent years, with local people often complaining that they receive only minimal compensation when the government sells tracts to developers.

In June, 900 vegetable farmers in China’s central Hubei province were involved in violent clashes with police over the course of ten days when authorities tried to seize their farmland for redevelopment.

The local government attempted to develop the land despite the fact that the farmers had rejected a compensation package that many said was too low. Scores of farmers were detained during the protests and at least one was detained.

In April, one villager was killed and five critically wounded when armed police opened fire on up to 100 protesters demanding a halt to the building of a mine in China’s southern Yunnan province.

Villagers had refused a compensation package offered by the mining company for the tract of land and were angered when the company proceeded with construction plans.

Original reporting by Ding Xiao for RFA's Mandarin service and Fung Riu Yau for RFA's Cantonese services. Mandarin service director: Jennifer Chou. Cantonese service director: Shiny Li. Written and produced for the Web by Joshua Lipes and Sarah Jackson-Han.

From:http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/landprotest-10142008172014.html

Heqqaniy Dawaning Ghelbisini Tebrikleymiz!

Essalamu eleykum Rabiye ana bashliq Amérikidiki barliq qérindashlar, qandaq ehwalingizlar, ailingizdikiler obdan turiwatamdu.Bizdin ehwal sorisingizlar yaxshi turiwatimiz, bashqa ishlar jayida kétiwatidu.

Radiyodin Guentanamo xapiliqimizning pütkenlikini we axirlashqanliqini anglap teswirligüsiz xushhal bolduq.U yerdiki qérindashlirimizning hörlükke chiqqanliqi ular üchünla emes milliy zulum astida turiwatqan 20 milyondin artuq Uyghuristan xelqi üchünmu intayin qutluq we xasiyetlik bir ish boluptu.

Bu xewer Uyghuristannila emes belki pütün dunyani zil-zilige salidighan xewer boldi. Xelqimizning ahu-zari Hudagha yétti. Heqqaniyet zulmet üstidin ghelbe qildi. Pashist Xitaylarning chawisi chitqa yéyildi.



Shermendichilik Adalet teripidin ret qilindi!



Biz Uyghurlar dunyada heqqaniyetning mewjut ikenlikige, zorawanliq we pashizimning haman meghlup bolidighanliqigha, milliy iradimizning uzaqqa qalmay emelge ashidighanliqigha qaytidin ishenduq!Kelgüsige bolghan ishenchimiz, insaniyetke bolghan muhabbitimiz hessilep ashti.



Biz bir Uyghur teshkilati bolush süpitimiz bilen Amerika hökümitige we heqqaniyet shemshirini tutup turghan qanun ijrachillirigha kolléktip teshekkurimizni bildürimiz we ulargha minglarche éhtiram bildürimiz.

Amerika xelqining we Amerikidiki sizlerge oxshash qérindashlirimizning ularning teqdirini ongshash yolida körsetken barliq japaliq tirishchanliqliringizlargha semimiy rehmetimizni éytimiz.

Biz bu xewerni anglap intayin hayjanlanduq, özimizni basalmiduq, köz we qulaqlirimizgha ishenmiduq, chanaqlirimiz issiq yash bilen nemdeldi. Amerikigha rexmet, bizdek bir mezlum xelqning ümüdini yerde qoymidi. Bizning sulghun chirayimizni düshmen aldida qan-yashqa boyimidi. Bizning qaraniyet tajawuzchilar aldida qeddimizni yene bir qétim tikliwélishimizgha yol échip berdi. Bizde "Künning yérimi ayding, yérimi qarangghu" dégen hikmetlik söz bar. Biz Uyghurlar Amérika xelqining bu dostaniliqini esirlerdin esirlergiche unutmaymiz!



Bu biz uyghurlarning qanche yillardin béri zariqip kütken bir xewirimizidi.Guentanamogha qamalghan 22 qérindishimizning ishlirining utuqluq bolishi üchün körsetken barliq semimiyitingizlardin Alla razi bolsun.Amerika heqiqiten biz deslepte oylighandek qanun döliti iken.Uning dölet sistimisi pütün dunyada örnek qilinip, érqiy we kultural qirghinlargha son bérilse ejep emes. Xitaylar axiri mat boldi, ishlar düshmenler kütkendek emes biz arzu qilghandek axirlashti. Dawayimizning qarangghuluq qaplap turghan yollirigha yene bir qétim nur chéchildi.



Ishengüsiz bu xosh xewerdin wetinimizning tagh-deryalirimu shatlinidighan, xelqimiz xushalliqtin qin-qénigha patmay sekrishidighan boldi.



Toye xitaylar toye! Bashqilarning zimini, bayliqlirini, meniwiyitini talan-taraj we xanu weyran qilghanlarning aqiwétining qandaq bolidighanliqini aldirimay bilip qalisen-téxi!



Hörmetlik Rabiye ana eger u 17+5 hemsherimiz bilen uchrushup qalsingizlar biz Yawropadiki Uyghurlardin séghinip salam yollap qoyarsizler. Biz allaning millitimizge ulardek pidakar, shir yürek we wijdanliq perzentlerni téximu köplep bérishi üchün duwa qilip kéliwatimiz we qilimiz.

Alla milyonlighan qiz-yigitlirimizning jümlidin Guentanamo türmisidin azat bolghanlarning weten-millet yolida tartqan japa-musheqetlirining minglap sawabini bersun.Wetinimiz sherqiytürkistanda xitayning qan purap turidighan zindanlirida éghir iskenje astida yashawatqan qehriman perzentlirimizning put-qolidiki koyza kishenlernimu parchaqlap tashlisun, shu künlerni baldurraq xelqimizge nésip qilsun!

Biz Guentanamo Uyghurlirining ishlirinining utuqluq bolghanliqini qizghin tebrikleymiz, ulargha bexit tileymiz we ulargha otluq salimimizni yollaymiz.Xelqimizni bu ghelbisi üchün yene bir qétim qutluqlaymiz!


Xeyir xosh Guentanamo! Yashisun erkinlik! Yashisun öz xelqining erkinliki üchün jénini atighan ezimetler!

Sherqiytürkistan Birliki Teshkilati

07.10.08 Gérmaniye/Frankfurt

Press Statement

The Chinese have in October 1949 Eastturkistan occupied. In the years 1933 and 1944 the Uyghurs twice managed through insurgencies, from the occupation by the Chinese people to liberate. The Republic was last through the cooperation of internal and external enemies busy and has existed since no more than Republic, the Republic still exists still in the hearts of the Uyghurs.

Since the occupation by China Eastturkistans the Chinese have on the destruction of culture, ethnicity and religion of the Uyghurs and help them try the Uyghurs from history to banish by a systematic genocide operate. There, 49 in Ostturkistan nuclear test carried out several 100,000 Uyghurs are thus lost their lives and there are still Uyghurs, who are thus a physical (disability, deformity, etc.) and mental harm to the disease in many forms shows.

The minerals were systematically exploited and thus was an ecological disaster leave. The water and soil were thus poisoned. Many animals and plants are therefore extinct. The climate has changed, the snow on the mountains is geschmolzen.Um to destroy our people, the Chinese have a dictatorial policy of birth control in the uyghur population, while several million were killed uyghuris babies.

Since the occupation of the Chinese people, we have our values and culture to our children can impart. There has recently been closed our schools and our mother tongue and writing were viewed as inferior. The lesson was to the detriment of our people is changing, our children are in school forced the Chinese language to learn and use. Our national education system was destroyed and the teachers who taught in our mother tongue, were removed from the school. Our history and our people were considered non-existent and as a lie taught to our children.

Although we could not say what we think, there are media, in the language uyghur disseminated, but even these have to reckon with a ban. The into Eastturkistan unemployment has made the Uyghurs gained the upper hand, while at the Chinese in Eastturkistan unemployment hardly exists. The Uyghurs have in their own country little opportunity to work or to start companies. Our nation has thus become one of the poorest peoples of the world.

Since 2008 has been the Uyghurs in Ürümchi, Hoten, Kashgar, Kucha, Peyziabad, Yengisheher, Yengihisar, Kargalik, Gulja, Aksu,Kumul and Turfan, which are against the injustices of the Chinese of their state as "terrorists", "religious fanatics" and " Separatists "and was titled, without respecting international human rights and condemned to 10.000en plugged in prisons, sometimes for life. Many of them were in an unbelievably brutal way and tortured and killed.

In those days in October before 59 years the Chinese have our free country Eastturkistan Republic occupied. We remember our Republic and want to make our country Eastturkistan again a free and independent country. We as Uyghur Organisation in Europe today to remember the injustices of the Chinese. We ask the civilized world and its Democratic countries, nations, peoples, organizations, associations and citizens and us financially and politically support to this eyesore of the history of mankind to clean up.

The Eastturkistan Union


01/10/08 Germany/Frankfurt