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FREEEAST TURKISTAN SYMPOSIUMOn the very same day, China welcomed an important foreign guest, namelyAbdullah Gül, the president of the Republic of Turkey. Gül, who paid a visit tothe capital of East Turkistan, Urumchi, was warmly welcomed by Chinese andUyghur officials, and the tension was not high. The news of the conflict reachedUrumchi, which is three thousand kilometres away, in a few days.Nevertheless, the colonialist-Communist administration of China remainedindifferent and took no action. Therefore, young Uyghurs and university students,who were angry about the incidents, conducted a peaceful demonstration inUrumchi on the July 5, 2009 to demand that the government make a statementand properly investigate the events that took place in Guandong. The colonialistChinese administration quelled the demonstration in a brutal manner insteadof responding to the justified and humane demands of the Uyghur people; thisresulted in “the Bloody Massacre of July 5”.For the last 60 years the uncontested dictatorship of the Communist Chineseadministration has always deceived the Uyghur people with a colonialist policyin East Turkistan under the name of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.The Uyghur people have been deprived of all their rights. The sources of EastTurkistan have been pillaged. Environmental pollution has reached “saturationlevel”. Millions of Chinese immigrants have been settled in East Turkistan withthe hope that they would help Xinjiang. When we look at the demographicsystem of China in East Turkistan, we can observe that the population of theUyghur people, which in 1949 constituted 80% of the overall population in EastTurkistan, has decreased to 43% today, whereas the Chinese population in theregion has increased from 4% in 1949 to 47% today.The unemployment problem among Uyghur youngsters has been aggravatedby ethnic discrimination and isolation policies; youth employment in EastTurkistan is today higher than 70%. The employment rate among even universitygraduates is less than 10% for the Uyghur people of East Turkistan, while this rateis around 90% for Chinese students. The quota allocated to Uyghur people in thecivil-servant recruitment examinations set by the Government is incredibly low,whereas the departments that recruit Chinese people have a much greater number.Ethnic discrimination and isolation have reached saturation level. Not onlyhave young Uyghurs (most of them being young single Uyghur girls) been forced350