How China changed demography of East Turkistan now referred to as ‘Xinjiang’

New Delhi: East Turkistan had fallen into Chinese occupation within the 18th century when the Qing dynasty of the Manchu empire annexed it. Though, it was by no means totally subdued and was briefly declared as an impartial state until Chinese invasion in December 1949.

The Chinese declare East Turkistan as theirs though they themselves regarded the Manchus as outsiders and barbarians, their declare is predicated on the invasion of the territory by the Qing dynasty.

China now prefers to name the nation by its colonial identify ‘Xinjiang’ as a part of the nation and with properly strategized propaganda it has succeeded in making the world virtually overlook a rustic roughly half the dimensions of India.

China has been profitable in protecting up the reality of their occupation of East Turkistan by disconnecting the native populace from the remainder of the world and spreading a fable that the land was inherited from their ancestors.

It has additionally been altering the demographic construction of the area by relocating increasingly Chinese inhabitants there. With the locals forcibly disconnected from the world, East Turkistan has not solely misplaced its independence, however can also be steadily shedding its identification.

Though Chinese atrocities and human proper violations in opposition to the native Turkic populace within the area is a well-known truth, the world misses to look at it as oppression by a colonial pressure. The world fairly sees it as an act of ethnic conflict and racial discrimination, as portrayed by China.

Since the invasion of communist Chinese, the nation and its individuals have been topic to Chinese occupation and colonization for the final 70 years. Colonialism is written as ‘殖民主义’ in Chinese, which accurately means “reproduction or growth of the population”. China has been doing the identical in East Turkistan by stationing Chinese immigrants there and in flip altering the demographic construction of the native inhabitants.

According to Amnesty International, earlier than the occupation of East Turkistan by China in 1949, Chinese inhabitants constituted solely 2 per cent of the entire populace. Which included the invading military, the police, the colonial authorities officers and their relations. There have been no Chinese farmers or herdsmen residing in East Turkistan.

The Chinese authorities now portrays all supporters of the East Turkistan independence motion as terrorists, extremists and  separatists together with the World Uyghur Congress, though it has no verifiable hyperlinks to terrorism. The United States and Germany have supported the place that the World Uyghur Congress just isn’t a terrorist group. The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, positioned in Washington DC, US, was shaped in 2004 to additional East Turkistan’s wrestle of independence.

President of the East Turkistan Government in-Exile Ghulam Osman have been highlighting Chinese atrocities and human proper violations in opposition to the native Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tatars and different Turkic individuals. He has additionally been cautioning underdeveloped nations in opposition to Chinese support, citing that when the help will get too troublesome for the debtor nation to repay, China will declare their land.

Osman identified different techniques utilized by China for taking up a territory via mass inflow of Chinese immigrants. In this context he offers an instance of Singapore and says, “Singapore, originally part of Malaysia, has an majority Chinese population thanks to the mass influx of Chinese immigrants. The point is, China has taken over Singapore without even using military forces.”

Meanwhile, the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement (ETNAM) has additionally issued a press release noting how Chinese authorities have incarcerated three million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Tatars and different Turkic individuals in East Turkistan.

In a bid to achieve out to the democratic world, ETNAM additionally acknowledged, “We call on governments across the world to support this effort. We call on member states of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) like Australia, Canada, France, India, Japan, US, UK and others to file a parallel complaint to the ICJ and work to hold China accountable.”

For the previous a number of many years, Chinese occupation has remained synonymous with Tibet. But outdoors the general public glare, China has been occupying an impartial nation with a a lot bigger land space – East Turkistan.

However, China’s expansionist ideology has been underscored by its aggressive conduct round Asia together with unilateral intrusion in Japanese waters and its brazen manifestation alongside LAC with India. In this context, the world has steadily began to grasp the diplomatic efforts of East Turkistan to achieve out to the main democratic powers for making a powerful case for its independence. It is about time that the world pertains to East Turkistan’s motion for an impartial state and comes ahead to assist it.