Eastern Turkistan after the Cold War and 9/ 11

(A Critical Study of the Chinese Theses and Policies)

Dr. Akram HiJazi

Researcher – Writer

Translated from Arabic by Azbe Kezbani

Introduction

It is difficult for someone who is studying and monitoring the condition of East Turkistan to write about any subject. It is particularly more difficult for someone to understand the situation if they are isolated from its civilization, culture, history, laws, humanity or even its biological makeup. In this region, a population has been subjected to genocide for decades, if not hundreds of years, yet it still is unable to make its voice heard. What can be heard is merely the determination, strong will power and faith of the victims. “While tears are streaming”1, and while crimes against humanity transgress every possible limitation, which subject can we ignore while writing about another? It is even not possible to compile or document the subjects in question in any kind of detail. However, it is possible to determine capital crimes committed, for all worlds to see; for example, crimes of racism. And again in this context, ethnic crimes committed in connection with business, education, health, marriage, migration or population planning. In addition, the banning of religious practices, mosques, reading the Qur’an, religious education, religious books, the Qur’an itself, Islamic symbols and Islamic attire, the killing or suppressing of scholars, religious functionaries and imams, the inculcation of atheism, the banning of provisions of the religious law, promoting war against religion and insulting Islam are only a few more examples of such crimes that we can mention here. Among the crimes related to health there is the administration of contaminated or deadly vaccines, the spreading of drug, alcohol or other addictive substance abuse among the Uyghur, as well as various illnesses that result from nuclear tests. As examples of cultural crimes, we can quote the distortion of history, the denying of the identity of the people and the Turkistan territory, as well as the erasing and destroying of all traces regarding culture and history. And there are still many more such subjects that can be mentioned.

The tragedies suffered by Turkistan are part of a long historical process. Turkistan has been the victim of large empires and it has been divided into two; Western Turkistan, which remained under the sway of the Soviets, and East Turkistan, which became a bone to picked over by the Soviet Union