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Communist China's Policy of Oppression in East Turkestan

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<strong>Communist</strong> Party. The number <strong>of</strong> people sentenced to death by courts<br />

<strong>in</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>Turkestan</strong> or who died as the result <strong>of</strong> torture between the beg<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>of</strong> 1999 and March, 2000, is estimated to be 2,500. 37<br />

In the genocide campaign be<strong>in</strong>g waged by the Ch<strong>in</strong>ese government<br />

<strong>in</strong> <strong>East</strong> <strong>Turkestan</strong>, even children are deta<strong>in</strong>ed on various charges.<br />

For <strong>in</strong>stance, on October, 30, 1999, the Hotan Municipal Security<br />

Directorate arrested a Turkish girl, a middle school student, on the<br />

grounds that her writ<strong>in</strong>g resembled that <strong>of</strong> a poster that had been put<br />

up <strong>in</strong> the street. Dur<strong>in</strong>g a speech made by Regional General Secretary<br />

Wang Le Chuan <strong>in</strong> Hotan, which was closed to the press, he announced<br />

that a primary school student had been arrested because he had torn the<br />

picture <strong>of</strong> Chairman Mao on the cover <strong>of</strong> his school book. 38<br />

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undreds <strong>of</strong> Muslims are martyred <strong>in</strong> organized executions. Thousands<br />

more are still <strong>in</strong> prison, await<strong>in</strong>g execution.<br />

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

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