COMMUNIST CHINA'S POLICY OF OPPRESSION IN
EAST TURKESTAN
Whenever he holds the upper
hand, he goes about the earth corrupting it, destroying (peoples') crops and
animals.
God does not love corruption.
(Qur'an, 2:205)
INTRODUCTION
China entered the twentieth century
as the remains of an empire fragmented and crushed under pressure from especially
Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. After imperial rule had been overthrown,
no powerful central authority was established for decades. When the Communist
Party came to power in 1949, China soon turned into a state of fear. That
process cost the lives of tens of millions of people because of the repressive
and totalitarian methods the communists used to enforce their bloody ideology.
The Chinese Communist Party resorted to violence to remain in power, and implemented
one of the most savage and ruthless form of communism ever, enforcing one
single way of living and thinking for the entire Chinese people. Throughout
that period, those who refused to abide by the rules of their communist leaders
were ruthlessly exterminated.
It is commonly assumed that the
savage implementation of communism has come to an end. People no longer receive
food in return for vouchers, no longer are required to wear uniforms, nor
suffer torture because they are unable to learn Mao's "Little Red Book"
by heart. Yet communism, adapted by the regime to the new world order, is
still alive and well in all its ruthlessness.
In the eyes of the Communist Party,
people are of value only as long as they can produce, and are allowed to think
only within boundaries set by the Communist Party. They can freely express
only thoughts in harmony with the party. The labor camps that exist through
China, the system that humiliates and exploits millions of people in those
camps, the mass executions in full public view, the torture methods widely
employed in the prisons and the sale of the internal organs of those condemned
to death, all reveal the ugly face of the communist administration. Despite
all this, however, for the last 20 years a number of media outlets have been
spreading the propaganda that China is rapidly preceding down a liberal and
democratic path. One important point is often ignored: The fact that China
has moved to capitalist practices in the economic field and has opened its
gates to foreign investors in a number of areas, does not mean that there
has also been a change in the country's political structure and ideology.
On the contrary, the inhuman practices still common demonstrate that nothing
has changed in the mentality of the ruling Communist Party. This will be clarified
with a great many examples in subsequent chapters of this book.
A major area of communist savagery
is East Turkestan, home to the Muslim Uighur Turks. Located at the westernmost
point of China, East Turkestan has been under occupation for the last two
centuries or so, and for the last 50 years in particular has suffered great
oppression from the despotic regime of the communist Chinese administration.
As a result of Chinese propaganda, East Turkestan is known to the world as
"Xinjiang," or "Sinkiang" meaning "new
borders" in Chinese, and most people are very unaware of the human drama
going on there. Yet East Turkestan, the majority of whose population are Muslims
of Uighur origin, is the scene of violence and oppression by the communist
Chinese administration, the like of which is found in no other region of China.
Torture, executions, labor camps and religious oppression have long been features
of daily life in East Turkestan.
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In recent years, there has been much talk about the
increased freedom and liberalization in the economic arena in China. Yet
the freedom is limited to specific areas, and the cruel and oppressive
system in China has, in fact, not changed.
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Muslims are arrested, kept for months
(or even years) in Chinese prisons, which are notorious for torture, solely
because they want to live by their religion. Many of those who fight for freedom
and democracy for Turkestan are executed. Moreover, China's assimilationist
policies have prevented the majority Muslim population of East Turkestan from
speaking their own language, living by their own culture, from going on the
hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca), performing their daily ritual prayers and fasting,
and even forbidden them to determine their family size. The Muslims of East
Turkestan expect people of good conscience all over the world to help them
wage a war of ideas to bring communist oppression there to an end and make
a concerted effort to inform the whole world about their plight.
China has turned East Turkestan
into a closed region by restricting all means of communication, preventing
the true dimensions of their human drama from being heard by the outside world.
Yet that is no excuse for forgetting and behaving as if nothing were going
on. For this reason, it is most important that all possible means be taken
to stop the silence that prevails in the whole world on the subject of East
Turkestan. If the true dimension of the inhumanity going on behind closed
doors is revealed, this will not only help the wronged people to have their
voices heard, but will also attract the world's attention to bring justice
to East Turkestan.
The aim of this book is both to
identify the basic causes of this communist oppression that has been going
on all over China for more than half a century, and to make the voice of the
wronged people of East Turkestan heard. Initiatives taken to allow the Muslims
of East Turkestan to enjoy peace and security can only succeed if the fundamental
causes of their oppression are documented and brought to the attention of
the world.
This work documents that the fundamental
reason behind the oppression in East Turkestan is the materialist philosophy
and communist ideology that dominate the Chinese state. The violence caused
by materialist philosophy, which regards life as a fight for survival (and
suggests that progress is only possible by means of conflict) can only be
eliminated if people turn to, and live by, the morality God commands. God
has commanded people to live by justice, tolerance, love, compassion, respect,
sacrifice, sharing, self-denial, and forgiveness. God has made it clear that
ethnic differences are no justification for conflict, and that people must
respect each others' races, languages, and beliefs. The acceptance of that
moral code world wide is the only way to secure peace and tolerance. An intellectual
war must be waged against the materialist ideology that is the fundamental
support behind those who have oppressed others. For this reason this is the
most important area required for peace and justice to prevail.
To oppose the oppression and injustice
in the world, efforts must be made to spread the morality of the Qur'an, which
is the real solution to this problem. A new age will dawn with the spreading
of the morality of the Qur'an, by the will of God, in which injustice and
oppression will be replaced by peace, security, and justice. The Qur'an bears
good tidings about that new age:
God
has promised those of you who believe and do right actions that He will make
them successors in the land as He made those before them successors, and will
firmly establish for them their religion with which He is pleased and give
them, in place of their fear, security… (Qur'an, 24:55)
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The people of East Turkestan have
been crushed by the repressive communist system for more than half a
century. Muslims are prevented from living their religion, and are trying
to survive under particularly difficult conditions.
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