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RIOTS IN EASTERN TURKESTAN
The Chinese magazine, Zheng kng, published in Hong
Kong, wrote in its July 1, 1991 issue, that armed
rebellions had taken place in May and June in
Chogchek, close to the USSR in Northern Eastern
Turkestan. The aims of these rebellions were said to
be independence, the right to organize political
parties and the localization of troops.
According to the information a city government
building was occupied by armed crowds for 36 hours
and demands were made to hand over power.
The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), brought from
Urumchi, surrounded the crowds and fierce gun
fighting erupted. According to official reports over
140 East Turkestanis were either killed, wounded,
arrested or surrendered. Chogchek has remained
closed to tourists from outside cities since 20 May.
On June 11 and 12 3000 people gathered before the
city government building in Bole City and
demonstrated for the democratic election of Bole
leaders. By the afternoon of June 12 demonstrators
had set fire to and begun stoning Government
buildings. The city was placed under martial law.
GENERAL ON MILITARY'S ROLE
During an interview with a reporter from an Urumchi
TV network, Lieutenant General Hamit Tursun, the
deputy political commissar of Eastern Turkestan
Military District, said that the military had four
important tasks to fulfill in Eastern Turkestan, but
the most important was defense of the borders. He
said, "Armed forces stationed in Xinjiang must be
aware of the great strategic significance of
Xinjiang, which shares 6,400-km long boundaries with
six countries. This being the case, while defending
the border areas, our armed forces must safeguard
the peaceful labor of people in Xinjiang."
PUBLIC SECURITY DIRECTOR ON SPLITTISM
Dong Yangyu, Public Security Director of Eastern
Turkestan, said during a recent interview with the
Beijing publication Remnin Gongan Bao that the
struggle for and against splittism has always
existed in Eastern Turkestan. Moreover, he added,
the relaxation of political and ideological
education over the last few years had made the
struggle against national splittism more
complicated.
According to Dong Yangyu, a handful of intellectuals
stubbornly clinging to their national separatist
positions and people carrying out national
separatist activities disregard the facts and deny
the historical fact of the formation and development
of harmonious relationships among all nationalities
in China, and the flesh and blood ties among them.
In order to split the region they resort to rumor
mongering to confuse and poison people's minds. On
the other hand, hostile forces outside the borders
send their men to the region to carry out activities
in a vain attempt to collaborate with domestic
hostile forces and stir up trouble. The Chinese
official concluded that there were, however, more
favorable conditions and a more powerful force for
safeguarding the motherland's unity and opposing
national splittism than ever before.
((Originally/Published
by Eastern Turkestan Union in Europe)) |
