Race Segregation? Uyghur People Across China Are Forced Back To Xinjiang
NTDTV, 13 March 2014
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are forcing a large number of Uyghur people across China back to their hometowns in Xinjiang. After the Bloodshed Event at Kunming Railway Station on March 1 in Yunnan Province, an enhanced alert against Uyghur people in Shadian Town of Honghe Region of Yunnan Province, where 8 suspected Uyghur people once lived and have since been implemented. After 5 days of the Event, several buses loaded to the brim with Uyghur people, left Shadian Town escorted by police vehicles.
Shadian Town is a gathering place of Gejiu City of the Honghe Region, it has the largest numbers of Muslim people there. After Kunming Bloodshed Event, a total of 900 Uyghur’s in Shadian Town were sent back to Xinjiang.
A local resident told Radio Free Asia (RFA), there is no one of the Uyghur race in Shadian Town now. Shadian local government paid law enforcement officials 1000 RMB(renminbi) to send them back Xinjiang. In addition, all Uyghur people in the Honghe Region are being sent back to Xinjiang.
According to RFA, one Uyghur person had lived in Beijing for 30 years without any criminal record, yet after the Kunming Event, he has been forced to move away by the landlord. Now his living conditions are in a desperate state.
Another distraught Uyghur appealer in Beijing told NTD, after his wife and he were forced to leave their homes, they were sent back to Xinjiang, their lives are now in a desperate state.
Uyghur appealer Nanmubalati: “We are from Xinjiang. My wife and I were forced back to Xinjiang from Beijing. Now we have no money. My wife is in desperate state.”
American-based Uyghur Association Vice Chairman Rafael Ilshat told RFA: “Yunnan is one of the gathering places for Uyghur people, with around several thousand of them there “In addition to Yunan, Beijing, Henan Province and Shaanxi Province, all are being forced back, all Uyghur people are being forced back to Xinjiang. This is the first time CCP Authorities have publicly sent Uyghur people back to Xinjiang.”
World Uyghur Congress spokesman Alim Seytoff told NTD, “From 1949 to the present day, the CCP have always executed a high pressure policy on Uyghur people. However, the more the Uyghur people are oppressed, the more they resist the CCP’s tyranny.”
Alim Seytoff: “Since 1949, we have seen the CCP employ all means of suppression, with deceiving tactics towards Uyghurs, Tibetans and other ethnic minority groups. So under such circumstances, the CCP are keen to blacken Uyghur people, they alsoinstigate Han Ethnic people’s national sentiment of hate and oppression towards Uyghur’s.”
After Kunming Event, in many places of Mainland China, Uyghur people are rigidly inspected by the police. Such a policy has revoked the balance of the people. Netizens say on the Internet, such a policy of CCP has brought hurt and bad feeling amongst many.
Although the killers of the Kunming Event should be condemned, Beijing human rights activist Hu Jia reminded us in the media, last October when Uyghur people drove a vehicle to impact the Jinshui Bridge of Tian’Anmen Square, many people did not know of the marginalised and second rate citizenship status of the Uyghur people, as well as their own personal resentment. Hujia says: “Due to the propaganda of the government, sometimes the public can be misguided, and now the rejection of Uyghur people from the public has been increased. After Kunming Event, the gap has become even greater.”
Alim Seytoff points out that, during the Kunming Event, the police only released photos of the suspects and stated they were Uyghur, yet they did not disclose the name of their hometown. It is not clear to recognise if the killers in the video were the same as in the photos. So “who actually did this”, this is still to be investigated by the international community.
Alim Seytoff: “On June 4 1989, the CCP said there was no one killed when they carried out the massacre action on those college students pursuing democracy and freedom on Tian’Anmen Square. So similarly, the CCP have continued to deceive the Chinese people every time, constantly using lies whilst establishing the CCP’s legitimate status in China. Therefore, we truly hope all Chinese people do not believe the plot of cheating one and allcreated by the CCP.”
Rafael Ilshat told RFA, the CCP Authorities sent guards who know the Uyghur language to all cities, assisting the police to forcibly send local Uyghur people back to Xinjiang. The officials constrain Uyghur people from Xinjiang all across the Mainland by all means. In Ningxia Autonomous Region and Shaanxi Province, there are indeed such incidents. Uyghur people are being detained where ever they go.
Rafael Ilshat accuses that: this is not only typical case of violating human rights, but it is also a serious provocation by the CCP imposing upon the Uyghur people.