Does anyone here know about Uyghurs or East Turkistan?

[Salih]

Hi people reading this.. 1 quick question have you heard of Uyghurs(Uighurs) from East Turkistan? Surprisingly few people know..because they are being suppressed by China and no news really comes from them.. for more info visit www.uyghuramerican.org or www.rfa.org and select Uighur

[Ishaq]

Funny you ask this, I saw a documentary last week on them and their strugle

they are region in china

The Uighurs are an ethnic Turk s Muslims wanting their region to be an independent country

thing is, the Han chinese (the chinese you see everyday) have outnumbered the natives, so they could not possibly give them back the land now

That country will never come to exist, they will be killed long before they are set free, and the Chinese have always taken the first option

cheers

[Salih]

It does nto matter about the outnumbering.. look at the Soviet union its not there anymore.. that is what gonna happen to china in couple years.. just wait and see my friend

[Ishaq]

Doubt it

Unlike the USA,Chinese don't take kindly to activist against the government

The region in north west china, or the East Turkistan is just an illusion.

The Han Chinese outnumber the natives, so if its ever put into vote like a democracy, they would still not be independent

The USSR melted because of financial problems, China does not

What is happening in that region is same as Kosovo or Lebanon, it used to be a Christian Majority, now due to migration and fertility, is Muslim dominant

[Salih]

Actually the Uyghrus plan on fighting like the Afghans.. USA already supports Uyghru soldiers in Mongolia..about 50,000 uyghru army ..but they are still wiating for the people to wake up in east Turksitan before they can go..lol if you put a real vote of the natives of East Turksitan then its only uyghurs against uyghrus so offcourse they will win.. the new cheinse settlers make up half of the 60 million population althiguh chiense say only 20 million..war is what is gona et them freedm!

[Ishaq]

Thing is, if put to a vote, the Han Chinese in that area outnumber the Uyghrus, so they can't possibly win.

The Chinese don't play around, they remove their domestic problems....permanently

There will be no War, and there will be no freedom...and if by some small chance they are freed, China, a future superpower, will make their lives a living hell....not to mention most countries that trade with China won't recognize the new province as a country like Somoliland or Chechnya

Peace

[Salih]

Thats what you think Isaq my brother.. but I guess we will all have to see..China will go down.. they said the same thing about a lot of other regimes like China.. but hey everything has its time .. you juss wait.. in the next 10-15 years when East Turkistan, Tibet, Inner Mongolia are free you will look back to this

[TimB -1-2-3]

Yep... They were in the news a bit a while back... Haven't heard from them much since then, though...

Crazy sh*t...

[misspl123]

I have never heard of that country...but I will visit the website.. Is there something bad going on there?

[jacquesvol]

A west-Chinese province, populated partly by Muslims (speaking an Altaic language, related to Turkish) and by Chinese. The Muslims got ties to Al Qaeida and are staging manifestations, Muslim way, killing Chinese.

[jacquesvol]

Their nationalism is based on the existence of an Uighur kingdom, centuries ago.

[jacquesvol]

The Uighur movement is financed by ISI (Pakistan secret services) an has the sympathy of Turkey, because of common language roots and common religion. Germany and the USA aided them a bit. (until their Al quaeida ties were revealed)

They hoped to get attention from the international press during the Olympics but that failed.

[misspl123]

OMg that really sucks.. is there anything people can do now to help them?

[Salih]

Yo Jacquesvol.. they aren't terrorist.. they get msitaken because their is a stupid terrorist (chiense progpaganda) group called the Turkistan Islamic PArty bullsh*t that uyghrus hate.. Uyghrus hate Alqadea or any terroist islamci bullsh*t..they just want a free Independetn East Turksitan...you know there are many Uyghrus who are chrisitian or shaman.. even the muslim uyghrus hate TIP.. they want free secualr nation.. the US supports the Uyghru movement in USA and elsewhere..pakistan is traitor!

[scnbabe89]

ya I've heard of it but I would hope so being that I'm a history major!

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have heard of this. The riots were pretty big news.

[Anonymous]

Yep