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The Role of the International Community in East Turkestan / Prof Dru C. GladneyA4.31 James P. Dorian, Brett Wigdortz, Dru Gladney,“Central Asia and Xinjiang, China: EmergingEnergy, Economic, and Ethnic Relations”, CentralAsian Survey, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1997), p. 469.32 Ibid., pp. 461-86.33 Ibid., p. 480.34 The best documentation of this period and theflood of Kazaks and Uighurs to the USSR fromXinjiang is to be found in George Moseley, TheParty and the National Question in China (CambridgeMA: MIT Press, 1966).35 See Michael Wines, The New York Times, May27, 2009, “Urban renewal hits Silk Road China willdemolish site in Kashgar, historic town inhabitedby Uighurs”p. A1.36 See Yitzhak Shichor, “Virtual Transnationalism:Uygur Communities in Europe and the Quest forEastern Turkestan Independence.” Unpublishedpaper, 2002.37 See, for example, www.Uyghur.org, the site supportedby Anwar Yusuf, president of the EasternTurkestan National Freedom Center in Washington,D.C., who has suggested that there are up to25 million Uyghurs worldwide. Shichor (ibid.),based on information from Enver Can in Munich,estimates there are about 500 Uyghurs in Germany(mostly in Munich), 500 in Belgium (mostly fromCentral Asia), 200 in Sweden (mostly from Kazakstan),40 in England, 35 in Switzerland, 30 in Hollandand 10 in Norway. In addition, there are anestimated 10,000 Uyghurs in Turkey, 1,000 in theUnited States, 500 in Canada, and 200 in Australia(mostly in Melbourne).38 See www.geocities.com/athens/9479/uighur.html.“The entire paragraph reads: Area: 1.6 million sq.km. Population: 14 million (1990 census), Uyghurs:7.2 million (official), 14-30 million (estimatesby the Uyghur organizations abroad). Capital:Urumchi. The Sinkiang-Uyghur AutonomousRegion in China (Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu in Chinese)is also known under the names Eastern Turkestanor Chinese Turkestan. Uyghur people preferUyghuristan. It is inhabited by the Uyghurs alsoknown under names Uighur, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwuer,Sart, Taranchi, Kashgarlik. The other nativepeoples are Kazak, Uzbek, Kyrghyz, Tajik, Tatar.Chinese colonization by Han people is a threat forthe native peoples.”39 For a comparative study of the role of theme parksin ethnic identity construction in China and theU.S., see Dru Gladney, In Press. “Theme Parksand Path Dependency: Comparing the PolynesianCultural Center and the China Ethnic CulturalPark” in “Chinese Ethnology: Practice and Theory”Taipei: Academia Sinica.40 A list of some of the international Uyghur andEast Turkistan organization can be found onhttp://uyghuramerican.org/Uyghurorganiz.htmland http://www.uygur.org/adres/uygur_organization.htm.41 See their website introduction: http://uyghuramerican.org/“The Uyghur American Associationwas established on May 23, 1998 in WashingtonD.C. at the First Uyghur American Congress. Thegrowing Uyghur community in the United Statescreated a need for a unified Uyghur organizationto serve the needs of the community here and torepresent the collective voice of the Uyghurs inEast Turkistan.”42 See their organizational statement www.uyghurs.org“The Uyghur Human Rights Coalition(UHRC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated toeducating Americans, particularly university students,about the Chinese government’s humanrights violations against the Uyghur people of theXinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China(known to the Uyghurs as East Turkistan). Throughits educational efforts, the UHRC strivesto build a broad base of support for the Uyghurpeople’s struggle to obtain democratic freedomsand self-determination and to protect their cultureand environment.”43 Recent discussions on the internet regardingTurkey’s lack of support for the Uyghur cause have499