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Eastern Turkistan after the Cold War and 9/11 A Critical Study of the Chinese Theses and Policies/ Dr Akram Hicazidid. However, if you can’t find another job in the private sector, you either havedifficulties or you will die of hunger.”Finally the report relates that in “experience transfer meetings it is requestedthat religious functionaries tell the other participants about their hardships andincidents that they encountered during their duties. For example, a mosque imamstood up and mentioned his illegal religious lecture. Or he speaks about how themosque was using a banned religious book. They talk among themselves aboutprovocative elements and about a sermon that was given by another religiousfunctionary without obtaining a prior permit, and their failure to inform thesecurity forces. They tell how they got carried away by these wrong ideas. It isrequested that other members in the group inform the authorities about a personwho is doing such wrong things.” 202) Demographic balanceOf course, this war by the Communist authorities against religion is notenough to change or destroy the identity of these lands. And it is clear that theywill not be able to succeed in doing this. In particular, the Uyghur are a peoplewho have a strong Islamic heritage and a deeply rooted civilization. On the otherhand, the battle of Chinese policies against culture, religion and humanity has hadgreat damage on China’s desires to transform this region into a Chinese canton.Denigration, oppression, the enslavement of the people in work camps, theimposition of spying on one another, frightening the locals, creating a lack of trustamong people, disregarding human honor, despicable applications, like sterilizingpeople and playing with their dignity and honor have only awakened feelings ofhate. 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 situationthat requires self-defense. China cannot ignore these facts, and cannot continuesuch practices. In this context, anything that can be said about the consequencesof the Chinese policies over the short or long term will be of no use. Why hasChina adopted such practices, particularly considering that it cannot hide themforever 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, itcan be said that China tends to implement such applications in order to gain timein the hope that this region will disintegrate. It is willing to do this by recreating327

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