{"id":139124,"date":"2019-08-05T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=139124"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T09:47:40","slug":"march-of-the-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/08\/march-of-the-uyghurs\/","title":{"rendered":"March of the Uyghurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Again, the West Tries to Destroy China, Using Religion and Terror<\/em><\/p>\n

21 Jul 2019 – The Uyghurs have managed to create a very old and deep culture. Most of them are good, law abiding citizens of the PRC. Also the great majority of followers of Sunni Islam are peaceful people. This work is addressing terrible problems related to extremism and terrorism, most of them crafted and then fueled by the West and its allies. The goal is to damage China. The victims live in various countries.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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They are everywhere, where their Western, Gulf states and Turkish handlers want them to be.<\/p>\n

Their combat as well as political cells and units are based in Syria and Indonesia, in Turkey and occasionally in Egypt.<\/p>\n

When they are told to kill, they murder with unimaginable brutality; decapitating, or cutting to pieces priests, infants, old women.<\/p>\n

They are China\u2019s worst nightmare. They are unleashing religious fundamentalism and foreign-sponsored militant nationalism and separatism. They are potentially the greatest obstacle and danger to President\u2019s Xi Jinping\u2019s marvelous BRI (Belt and Road Initiative).<\/p>\n

Both the West and Turkey are glorifying them; the most extremist of Uyghurs. They are financing and arming them. They are labelling them as victims. Uyghurs are now a new \u2018secret weapon\u2019, to be used against Beijing\u2019s determined march forward, towards socialism with Chinese characteristics.<\/p>\n

The West and its allies are doing all they can, to smear China (PRC), to derail its progressive course, and to arrest its increasingly positive and optimistic influence on all the corners of the world. They invent and then support\/finance all imaginable and unimaginable adversaries of the Communist Party of China. Religious sects are the favorite \u2018weapon\u2019 used against China by both North America and Europe. That is true about the extremists who belong to Tibetan Buddhism, concentrated around an agent and darling of the Western intelligence agencies, the Dalai Lama. Or yet another radical Buddhist\/Taoist extremist sect \u2013 Falun Gong.<\/p>\n

The West does everything in its power to destroy China. It was clearly detectable 30 years ago during the so-called Tiananmen Square Incident (an event supported by the West, and later twisted by Western mass media), as it has been obvious during two recent \u2018rebellions\u2019 in Hong Kong, fully sponsored by Western organizations (NGOs) and governments.<\/p>\n

The latest chapter of the anti-Chinese attacks, conducted by the West, is perhaps the most dangerous, and the \u2018best crafted\u2019 multi-national onslaught against the interests of both China (PRC) and the developing world, particularly the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.<\/p>\n

It is the so-called Uyghur issue.<\/p>\n

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Uyghurs live predominantly in the northwest of China. They were recognized as \u2018native\u2019 in\u00a0the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People\u2019s Republic of\u00a0China. They belong to one of the 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities of China, and are predominantly of Muslim faith.<\/p>\n

For decades, some Uyghurs fought for independence from China (before the Communist PRC was declared on October 1, 1949, there were at least two Uyghur independent states declared in the region, the one most known \u2013 the First East Turkestan Republic \u2013 with the help of the Soviet Union).<\/p>\n

Since the formation of the PRC, China has offered equal rights and constantly improving standards of living to the Uyghur minority. However, several extremist Muslim factions have kept fighting, brutally, for a Turkic independent state. They have not been representing the majority of Uyghurs, but being against the PRC, have enjoyed moral and financial support from the West, its allies in Gulf states, and from Turkey.<\/p>\n

Dr. Gaye Christofferson, wrote in September 2002, in her work\u00a0\u201cConstituting the Uyghur in U.S.-China Relations: The Geopolitics of Identity Formation in the War on Terrorism\u201d how divisive the actions of the Uyghurs were on the territory of the PRC:<\/p>\n

\u201cUyghur separatists and independence movements claim that the region is not a part of China, but that the Second East Turkestan Republic was illegally incorporated by the PRC in 1949 and has since been under Chinese occupation. Uyghur identity remains fragmented, as some support a\u00a0Pan-Islamic\u00a0vision, exemplified by the\u00a0East Turkestan Islamic Movement, while others support a\u00a0Pan-Turkic\u00a0vision, such as the\u00a0East Turkestan Liberation Organization. A third group would like a \u201cUyghurstan\u201d state, such as the\u00a0East Turkestan independence movement. As a result, \u201c[n]o Uyghur or East Turkestan group speaks for all Uyghurs, although it might claim to\u201d, and Uyghurs in each of these camps have committed violence against other Uyghurs who they think are too assimilated to Chinese or Russian society or are not religious enough.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was before the big propaganda push from the West; during the years when even Western academia was still relatively free to assess the situation in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

But soon after, the North American and European policy changed and radicalized.<\/p>\n

In the West, the Uyghur issue was designated as \u2018central\u2019 and \u2018essential\u2019 to achieve three main goals:<\/p>\n