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

Guantanamo Uyghurs Ordered Freed
2008-10-07

A U.S. judge orders the release of 17 ethnic Uyghurs held for almost seven years at Guantanamo Bay. But the legal fight isn't over.


The court house in Washington DC where, on October 7, 2008, a U.S. District Judge ruled that 17 Uyghurs held in Guantanamo Bay must be freed because they are no longer considered enemy combatants.

WASHINGTON—A U.S. judge today ordered the release of 17 ethnic Muslim Uyghurs from China who have been held at Guantanamo Bay for almost seven years, in a move immediately welcomed by Uyghur exile groups. U.S President George W. Bush's administration vowed to try and reverse the decision.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ruled that the Uyghurs, Muslims from China's northwestern Xinjiang region, must be freed because they are no longer considered enemy combatants.

"Because the Constitution prohibits indefinite detentions without cause, the continued detention is unlawful," Urbina said. He ordered their release by Friday in Washington, and he also set a hearing for next week to determine where they should be settled.

In a statement, the White House said it "strongly" disagreed with the judicial order and would seek emergency measures to stop and subsequently reverse it, on grounds that it would create a legal precedent for the release of other detainees "including sworn enemies of the United States suspected of planning" the Sept.11, 201 attacks on New York and Washington.

Today we heard a voice from the court saying that Uyghurs are not terrorists."
Rebiya Kadeer, World Uyghur Congress

Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, welcomed the judge's order and called it a victory for millions of Uyghurs inside China, some of whom Beijing has labeled terrorists committed to violent separatism.

"The Chinese government is trying to portray all Uyghurs as terrorists just because there are Uyghurs detained in Guantanamo. They try to classify any kind of fight by Uyghurs as terrorist activity, and they are trying to exterminate our ethnic group," Kadeer said.

"But today, the Western world, and especially the United States through its Constitution, has proven that they are innocent. Now they will be released from the cages of Guantanamo to freedom," she said.

"Today we heard a voice from the court saying that Uyghurs are not terrorists. Those who have fought for the freedom of the Uyghur people wherever they are detained, even in Afghanistan—they are not a threat to the world," she said.

Terrorism alleged

Several of the Uyghurs detained at Guantanamo Bay were living in camps in Afghanistan in 2001 when airstrikes drove them across the border to Pakistan, where they were taken captive and turned over to U.S. forces.

The men were held in a military prison in Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years. Cleared for release in 2004, the U.S. government has been unable to find them a home.

Rebiya Kadeer, seen here with her husband in front of the court on October 7, said: "Today we heard a voice from the court saying that Uyghurs are not terrorists." Beijing has demanded the repatriation of all Uyghurs held at the U.S. Naval prison in Cuba, and most countries who might otherwise take them in fear diplomatic reprisals.

The Chinese government says the men are members of the outlawed East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which Beijing and Washington regard as a terrorist organization. Beijing blames ETIM for a series of violent attacks inside China in recent years.

Some sent to Albania

Five Uyghurs detained at Guantanamo Bay were released and given refuge by the Albanian government in 2006, despite protests from Beijing.

One of the detainees sent to Albania, Ababehir Qasim, said earlier that the men would have preferred to remain in custody in Guantanamo rather than return to China.

“Sometimes we thought that if that were the only option, instead of going back to China we would be better off staying there [in Guantanamo]... Going back to China would more than double the suffering of the Uyghur people’s spirits,” Qasim said.

“So our people wouldn’t suffer, we thought that staying at Guantanamo would be better. The time it took to apply for political asylum became longer and longer, and we heard from our lawyer that the Chinese government was pressuring other governments not to accept us. Naturally, we tried to comfort each other,” he said.

Chinese position

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said before the court hearing that Beijing wants the men sent back.

“China has urged the U.S. to repatriate these Chinese terrorist suspects to China on many occasions. We hope the U.S. will take our position seriously and repatriate these persons to China sooner rather than later,” he said.

Uyghurs twice enjoyed short-lived independence after declaring the state of East Turkestan during the 1930s and 40s, and many oppose Beijing’s rule in the region.

Chinese officials have said extremists among the region’s mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur population plotted terrorist strikes during the Beijing Olympics.

More reaction

Henryk Szadziewski of the Uyghur Human Rights Project also welcomed news of the men's release.

“We can see that the Chinese government's assertions, that somehow the Uyghurs detained in Guantanamo were somehow linked to global terror, have all been denied by the United States courts here. This is a wonderful, historic day for Uyghur people,” Szadziewski said.

"What we're looking at here is a decision that says that Uyghur people are not interested in pursuing their cause for increased democracy and human rights through violent means.”

Original reporting by RFA's Uyghur service. Written in English by Joshua Lipes. Edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.

From:http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/Guantanamo-10072008123140.html

Presseerklärung

Die Chinesen haben im Oktober 1949 Ostturkistan besetzt. In den Jahren 1933 und 1944 haben die Uyghuren es zweimal durch Aufstände geschafft, sich von der Besetzung durch die Chinesen zu befreien. Die letzte Republik wurde durch die Zusammenarbeit der inneren und äußeren Feinde besetzt und existiert seit dem nicht mehr als Republik, trotzdem existiert die Republik immer noch in den Herzen der Uyghuren.

Seit der Besetzung Ostturkistans durch China haben die Chinesen auf die Vernichtung der Kultur, Ethnie und Religion der Uyghuren hingearbeitet und sie versuchen die Uyghuren aus der Geschichte zu verbannen, indem sie einen systematischen Völkermord betreiben. Es wurden 49 Atomtest in Ostturkistan durchgeführt, mehrere 100.000 Uyghuren sind dadurch ums Leben gekommen und es gibt immer noch Uyghuren, die dadurch einen körperlichen ( Behinderung, Missbildung usw. ) und geistigen Schaden haben, der sich in vielen Krankheitsformen zeigt.

Die Bodenschätze wurden systematisch ausgebeutet und dadurch wurde ein ökologisches Desaster hinterlassen. Das Wasser und der Boden wurden dadurch vergiftet. Viele Tiere und Pflanzen sind dadurch ausgestorben. Das Klima hat sich geändert, der Schnee auf den Bergen ist geschmolzen.Um unser Volk zu vernichten, haben die Chinesen eine diktatorische Politik der Geburtenkontrolle bei der uyghurischen Bevölkerung durchgeführt, dabei wurden mehrere Millionen uyghurische Babys getötet.

Seit der Besetzung der Chinesen haben wir unsere Werte und Kultur nicht an unsere Kinder vermitteln können. In letzter Zeit wurden unsere Schulen geschlossen und unsere Muttersprache und Schrift wurden als minderwertig angesehen. Der Unterricht wurde zum Nachteil für unser Volk verändert, unsere Kinder werden in der Schule gezwungen die chinesische Sprache zu lernen und zu benutzen. Unser nationales Bildungssystem wurde zerstört und die Lehrer, die in unserer Muttersprache unterrichteten, wurden aus dem Schulwesen entfernt. Unsere Geschichte und unser Volk wurden als nicht existent und als Lüge an unsere Kinder vermittelt.

Obwohl wir nicht sagen konnten was wir denken, gibt es Medien, die in der uyghurischen Sprache verbreitet werden, aber selbst diese müssen mit einem Verbot rechnen. Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Ostturkistan hat bei den Uyghuren die Oberhand gewonnen, wobei es bei den Chinesen in Ostturkistan kaum Arbeitslosigkeit gibt. Die Uyghuren haben im eigenen Land kaum Möglichkeiten zu arbeiten oder Firmen zu gründen. Unser Volk ist dadurch zu einem der ärmsten Völker der Welt geworden.

Seit 2008 wurden die Uyghuren in Ürümchi, Hoten, Kashgar, Kucha, Peyziabad, Yengisheher, Yengihisar, Kargalik, Gulja, Aksu und Turfan, die sich gegen die Ungerechtigkeiten des chinesischen Staates einsetzten, als „Terroristen“, „Religiöser Fanatiker“, und „Separatisten“ tituliert und wurden ohne Beachtung Internationaler Menschenrechte verurteilt und zu 10.000en in Gefängnisse gesteckt, teilweise lebenslänglich. Viele von ihnen wurden in einer unglaublich brutalen Art und Weise gefoltert und auch umgebracht.

In diesen tagen im Oktober vor 59 Jahren haben die Chinesen unser freies Land Osttürkistanisch Republik besetzt. Wir erinnern uns an unsere Republik und wollen das unser Land Osttürkistan wieder ein Freies und unabhängiges Land wird. Wir als Uyghurischer Verein in Europa erinnern heute an die Ungerechtigkeiten der Chinesen. Wir erbitten die Zivilisierte Welt und ihre Demokratischen Länder, Nationen, Völker, Organisationen, Vereine und Bürger und uns finanziell und politisch zu unterstützen, um diesen Schandfleck der Geschichte der Menschheit zu bereinigen.

Ostturkistanische Union e.V.