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Communist China's Policy of Oppression in East Turkestan

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(Above) <strong>East</strong> <strong>Turkestan</strong><br />

Muslims martyred, together<br />

with their children<br />

by Mao's militants. (Top<br />

right) Muslims are arrested<br />

without just cause, placed<br />

on a truck and shown to<br />

the public and then taken<br />

to an unknown dest<strong>in</strong>ation<br />

and martyred. (Side) S<strong>in</strong>ce<br />

1992 <strong>in</strong> particular there<br />

has been a huge <strong>in</strong>crease<br />

<strong>in</strong> the number <strong>of</strong> people<br />

from <strong>East</strong> <strong>Turkestan</strong> arrested<br />

on the basis <strong>of</strong><br />

trumped up charges and<br />

sent to labor camps.<br />

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ethnic nationalism and religion <strong>in</strong> X<strong>in</strong>jiang, whose Muslim Turkic<br />

Uighurs comprise half <strong>of</strong> the region's 18 million people. For back<strong>in</strong>g, or at<br />

least not oppos<strong>in</strong>g, the U.S.-led campaign aga<strong>in</strong>st Osama b<strong>in</strong> Laden,<br />

President Jiang Zem<strong>in</strong> hopes to milk greater sympathy from Western<br />

governments critical <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ch<strong>in</strong>a's</strong> human rights record.<br />

The Bush adm<strong>in</strong>istration must reject <strong>Ch<strong>in</strong>a's</strong> attempt to equate the attack<br />

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

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