dogu-turkistan-sempozyumu

FREEEAST TURKISTAN SYMPOSIUMtotal number of Kazakhs who migrated from Barkol to Gansu between 1936 and1939 due to Chinese oppression was around 12,000.The Kazakh people, who suffered these atrocities up until the 1930s, reactedagainst this brutal killing of their leaders and moved from East Turkistan to thesouth, the Tibet Region; however, the first group of 3,000 people sought shelterin India in 1941. It should be noted that the leaders of these Kazakh refugeeswere Elishan Batir 6 , the son of Elip Kamisbayoglu, who, as stated above, had beenkilled in his house by the Chinese, Zayip, a relative of Jantaylak, the leader of theKerey-Jantekey-Bazarkul clan, who had been killed by the Chinese in the AltaiRegion, and Osman Teyzi (Osman Tashtan 7 ), Zayip’s son. The independencemovement that had begun in 1933 in East Turkistan with the participation of theUyghur, Kazakh and Dungen (Chinese Muslims) people came to an end due toa military alliance between Shing Si Sey, the governor of East Turkistan, and theStalin administration in the Soviet Union; the consequence of this alliance was anattack by the Red Army on the independence movement in the region. However,the atrocities carried out against Turkic and Muslim people in East Turkistan didnot come to an end at this early date. After 1937, the arrests and detentions of theelite in the Kazakh and Uyghur communities, that is, those who had leadershipskills and ability, began throughout East Turkistan. In November 1939 Shing SiSey, the Chinese governor of East Turkistan, ordered the arrest of three hundredMongol, Kazakh and Kyrgyz leaders in Urumchi; he also ordered that all armsand weapons be collected from the local people. 8 Later, Shing Si Sey ordered thearrest of Akıt Ulimjuili, a religious leader in the Altai region. 9 In response to thisoppression, on the February 1, 1940 the Kazakhs in the Altai region attacked theChinese garrison in Koktogay, under the leadership of tribal chiefs, includingEsimhan, Akteke, Shagalak and Irishan Nogaybayuli, reclaiming the weaponsthat they had earlier been stripped of. When this news arrived at Urumchi, 80Kazakh leaders in Urumchi were immediately arrested. Sherifhan Kogedayuli,a noble Kazakh in East Turkistan and the former governor of the Altai region,was also arrested. This insurgence in the Altai region lasted for eight months,from the winter to the autumn of 1940. Chinese administrators in Urumchimade an agreement with the Kazakhs in the Altai region in September 1940.However, this peaceful period was interrupted in the summer of 1941. Duringthe insurgence that broke out in the Koktogay region, bloody battles took place386