Uyghur and Uzbek

Throughout its history and up until the Manchurian invasion in 1887, Eastern Turkestan maintained its national, cultural and religious identity distinct from those of Chinese. Prior to the Chinese invasion in 1950, Eastern Turkestan (established in 1944) was recognized de facto by numerous countries and thus, according to established principles of international law, Eastern Turkestan constitute an occupied territory. It is well known that, since the occupation the communist have pursued an aggressive policy of colonization. In 1887, Chinese population consisted only less than 1% of the region . In 1945, there were only 22,000 Chinese lived in Eastern Turkistan, most of them were government officials and soldiers, that was only less then 5% of the population of the region. By 1993, the number of Chinese settlers reached 6.5 million, which is about 50% of the local population and about 30 times the original figure. At present, it is estimated that more than 10,000 Chinese settlers pouring into the region on daily bases! According to one source, China is planning to transfer another 2 million people in the near future. Thus, the local people of Eastern Turkestan are becoming a small minority in their own country in a few more years. The mass immigration policy of Chinese government is aimed at transforming Eastern Turkestan into a completely Chinese province. This colonization policy has already caused serious problems for the local people. As a rule, the Chinese settlers are assigned to places where the natural water resources are easily accessible. The Chinese immigrants use up nearly all the water resources and leave local farmer's land dried out as a result of water shortage. Many of the local farmers have to leave their land behind and seek employment elsewhere. They wander around everywhere searching for work, but linguistic, cultural and religious difference make it extremely hard for them to compete with the Chinese settlers. Since there is no government policies to protect local inhabitants from discrimination, they are openly rejected just because of the race difference. Even those who have received higher education from the Chinese institution are rejected simply because his/her national identity.

Population transfer, including the implantation of settlers and settlements, was recognized by the UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in its resolution 1991-1992/28, affect the basic human rights and freedoms of not only the people being moved or removed by governments, but also of the original inhabitants of the territory into which settlers are being implanted. In its resolution, the UN Sub-Commission noted that this practice may even constitute genocide.

China has conducted 43 nuclear tests since 1961, almost all of them were done at Lopnor test site in Eastern Turkestan. China is widely expected to perform two more nuclear tests this year in the region. All these tests have produced severe ecological disaster endangering human life, heavily polluted the air, drinking water and food products and are affecting millions of domestic and wild animals in the region. Up to this date, Chinese have never done any research in testing the effect of radioactive fallout on the local people living in the region, although the fruit and food products produced by the surrounding region of Lopnor test site were banned for exporting overseas as early as 1980s, but the local people are still consuming the radioactive animal meat and farm products without any warning. There is no reliable statistics available about diseases caused by radiation exposure in the area, but it is very easy for visitors to see local people with strange diseases; birth defectives; loss of memory; mental retardation; extremely high rate of skin diseases and incidence of thyroid cancer. There are a lot of so called "local diseases" without clinical definition are regarded related to nuclear waste. People are dying at very young age with no reasonable explanation. While the Chinese government claims successful nuclear tests time after time, Eastern Turkestanis are crying in their heart because they have no choice but silently suffer.

The Chinese government never announces the unemployment rate among local population in Eastern Turkestan, while there is basically no unemployment among Chinese settlers, but the employment rate for the native people is extremely low. Chinese have monopolized not only official rank of authority and influence, but also the positions in almost all walks of the life in Eastern Turkestan. Anyone who is able to visit any big production plant or company building or any commercial site hardly sees any local face - which is easily recognized by their Caucasian feature. Although the government now and then publishes fictional statistical data showing that the local minority consists about 50% of employed labor force, actually unemployment rate among local inhabitants is estimated as high as 90%. No independent authority has done any research on this subject because of fear of being called "National separatist" and put in jail. We ask the international community to conduct such research and reveal the truth to the world.

Chinese government's mass immigration policy, numerous nuclear tests and exploitation of the underground wealth Eastern Turkestan with crude mining methods has caused serious damage to the environment. Because of the geographical location, shortage of water has been a major problem for Eastern Turkestan. Many geologists and environmentalists have stated that the land cannot support the huge population which is being created by the Chinese government by the constant influx of ethnic Chinese, yet the Chinese government does not care about what happens to the world environment it does not care about the local people's right, all it wants is to dig out more oil and minerals. Tens of thousands of oil workers and their relatives are brought in from remote area of China to produce oil, the workers needs water to survive, so they dig deeper and deeper for underground water. As a consequence of this ecologically disastrous policy Eastern Turkestan is turning into a desert rapidly. According to one report by Xinjiang Academic Institute, about 40% present of grassland in Eastern Turkestan has become desert in last 30 years. The major reason is the mass transfer ethnic Chinese and their needs for natural resources, which has destroyed the ecological balance.

Previously, while the Chinese were restricted to one child per family, no birth control were enforced among the local peoples of Eastern Turkestan. However, as of 1988 the Chinese Communist authorities embarked upon a policy of coercive birth control among the local peoples, under the pretext of "ensuring the steady growth in the minority population", improving the quality of the population". and " eliminating economic inequalities". One couple are allowed to have only 2 children, in order to execute this policy, Chinese government uses forced abortion and wide scale enforced sterilization of woman against their cultural and religious belief. According to one source, in a town of 200,000 people, there were 35,000 child-bearing women who were subject to government checks. Among them, 686 women were forced to undergo a currettage, 993 were forced to discontinue their pregnancies and 10,708 women were forced to undergo sterilization. Implementing the birth control policy by using very poor medical equipment has led to the deaths of many women and children.
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