carried away by these wrong ideas. It is requested that other members in the group inform the authorities about a person who is doing such wrong things.”20

2) Demographic balance

Of course, this war by the Communist authorities against religion is not enough to change or destroy the identity of these lands. And it is clear that they will not be able to succeed in doing this. In particular, the Uyghur are a people who have a strong Islamic heritage and a deeply rooted civilization. On the other hand, the battle of Chinese policies against culture, religion and humanity has had great damage on China’s desires to transform this region into a Chinese canton. Denigration, oppression, the enslavement of the people in work camps, the imposition of spying on one another, frightening the locals, creating a lack of trust among people, disregarding human honor, despicable applications, like sterilizing people and playing with their dignity and honor have only awakened feelings of hate. All such applications have made deep scars within the human psychology, and are enough to make it like a volcano that is ready to erupt. This is a situation that requires self-defense. China cannot ignore these facts, and cannot continue such practices. In this context, anything that can be said about the consequences of the Chinese policies over the short or long term will be of no use. Why has China adopted such practices, particularly considering that it cannot hide them forever and that it will reap what it has sown?

It is a fact that China has not looked on the matter in this way. However, it can be said that China tends to implement such applications in order to gain time in the hope that this region will disintegrate. It is willing to do this by recreating the populace from scratch; one day it may no longer be possible to talk about a Muslim population. In this way it will become easier for both the Chinese and the world to accept Turkistan as a Chinese canton. This situation is continuing apace. The following policies are being used to this end:

• The ethnic ablation policy,

• The immigration of tens of millions of people of Chinese Han origins into Turkistan,

• Demographic division of young population groups,

• Mixing of races,

• Tying to control the birth rate through various methods.

Another situation that China wants to ensure and defends violently is that of “preserving China’s integrity”, both geographically and demographically. According to the official thesis, China describes itself as: “a multi-national single state formed from 56 ethnic groups”. According to the fifth population census in 2000, there are 18 ethnic elements that can be differentiated. These are elements