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East Turkistan as a Cradle of Civilizations / Prof Alimcan Inayet
Silk Way. The structures that China tries to present as having been administrative
units of the central Chinese administration in the past are nothing but security
stations they had erected along the Silk Way. After the Battle of Talas in 751,
the Chinese left these lands for more than 1,000 years. 8 Therefore, the Chinese
are in no way justified in the claim that East Turkistan has always been Chinese
territory.
The name “Xinjiang” (New Border), given to East Turkistan by the Chinese
and the demographic structure of the Chinese Han people in East Turkistan in
1940s and 1950s refute Chinese claims that East Turkistan was “always Chinese
territory”.
The Chinese (Han) Population in East Turkistan in 1941: 9
Ethnic Groups Population Proportion
Uyghur 2,984,000 80.0%
Kazakh 326,000 8.7%
Kyrgyz 65,000 1.7%
Dongan 92,000 2.5%
Chinese (Han) 187,000 5.0%
Mongol 76,000 2.0%
Total 3,730,000 100%
The Chinese (Han) population in the tables consists of the families of the
Chinese occupational army troops, not Chinese people who had settled in the
region.
5. The assimilation policy of the Chinese administration against Uyghur
Turks
5. 1. The era of the Manchu-Qing Dynasty
The attack on China by land and sea carried out by Western states in the late
19 th century -the final period of the Manchu-Qing dynasty- led the Chinese to
establish both territorial and marine defence lines; as a result, the East Turkistan
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