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Eastern Turkistan after the Cold War and 9/11 A Critical Study of the Chinese Theses and Policies/ Dr Akram HicaziHowever such declarations found no echo in the international arena. Onthe contrary, Amnesty International rejected these calls. And it stated thatthe International Youth Conference and the Eastern Turkistan Media Centerorganizations, which are working in Germany and reporting human rightsviolations by China against the Uyghur people are two political groups thatdesire autonomy or independence for Turkistan. It also added this note: TheChinese government does not make any differentiation between peaceful requestsregarding freedom and the right of religious practices, meeting and expressionand armed activities. Amnesty also stated that China sees all forms requests aboutgreater autonomy or independency as a separatist movement and even opponentswho carry out peaceful activities are accused of terrorism. Therefore, China issearching for international support to suppress all forms of opposition. 37While the “White Book” describes riots and the cries of the Uyghur peopleas “rapacious”, it cannot see that the rapaciousness of China cannot be toleratedeven by those who hear or read about it. However, these people have witnessedmost of the silent massacre that the Uyghur have suffered behind curtains overthe decades. If it were not for China’s rapacious hunger, perhaps millions of peoplewould be unaware of these events.B. At the regional levelParallel to the international campaign, after September 11 China started tomake changes in its criminal laws. While the world was busy searching for suspectsinside the eye of the storm and monitoring reactions, the Western media andinternational security associations started to spread the news that closed envelopeshad been sent to the post boxes of some important persons, official bureaus andinstitutions. According to these rumors, there was anthrax within these envelopes.This event was transformed into a campaign to spread fear. Suddenly supportstarted to accumulate for the campaign known as the war against internationalterrorism. However, as suddenly as the campaign started, it came to an end.Only the Chinese were busy with changes in their criminal laws to fightcrimes regarding anthrax and radioactive materials. In reality, they were trying tofind official approval of many customary laws used against the Uyghur people inthe atmosphere that had been created by September 11. “Know your opportunitywell; know when the wind is blowing in your favor”. That was just what the339