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East Turkestan (Country) (view source)
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East Turkestan (sometimes '''Xinjiang''') is a country currently under the occupation of [[People's Republic of China]]. <ref>https://www.iuhrdf.org/uyghurs</ref> The main inhabitants of East Turkestan are the Uighurs among other Turkic peoples such as Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Uzbek and Tatars. Over one million native [[Uyghur]]s are held in [[Chinese Communist]] [[gulag]]s.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un-idUSKBN1KV1SU</ref>
East Turkestan is a country currently under the occupation of China. <ref>https://www.iuhrdf.org/uyghurs</ref> The main inhabitants of East Turkestan are the Uighurs among other Turkic peoples such as Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Uzbek and Tatars.
==Location==
East Turkmenistan borders [[Mongolia]], [[Russia]] ([[Siberia]]), [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]] ([[Gilgit-Baltistan]]) and [[India]] ([[Jammu and Kashmir]]) as well as the Chinese provinces/regions of [[Gansu]], [[Qinghai]] and Xizang ([[Tibet]]).
==History==
==History==
<!--The area came under the rule of the Chinese Empire in the eighteenth century and the name Xinjiang ('New Frontier') was first used in 1768. Xinjiang was constituted a province of the empire in 1884, following the repression of a Moslem uprising in the 1870s. Xinjiang has a non-Han Chinese majority; the main group, Uyghur, being a Turkic people (an obsolete alternative name for Xinjiang was 'Chinese Turkestan').
Prior to the [[Second World War]] the area was occupied by the [[Soviet Union]] beginning in 1934.<ref>[http://home.comcast.net/~markconrad/Sinkiang.htm#_ednref9 From “Yellow Russia” to the East Turkestan Republic], By Pavel Aptekar. From Aleksandr Kiyan’s Russian-language website devoted to the Red Army of Workers and Peasants, 1918-1945 (home page at http:// rkka.ru), specifically the article [http://rkka.ru/oper/sinc/sinc.htm ''Ot Zheltorossii do Vostochno-Turkestanskoi respuliki,'']. See also [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China.html#PRC Kiangsi Soviet Republic], 1 Dec 1931 - 15 Oct 1934.</ref>-->
East Turkestan was an independent country until the year 1949, when it was invaded by the Communist Chinese. From the years 1951-1959, there were over 14 major armed rebellions against the Chinese occupation. The largest armed rebellion took place in Khotan from December 28-31, 1954.
East Turkestan was an independent country until the year 1949, when it was invaded by the Communist Chinese. From the years 1951-1959, there were over 14 major armed rebellions against the Chinese occupation. The largest armed rebellion took place in Khotan from December 28-31, 1954.
===CCP domination===
===CCP occupation===
[[File:Hong Kong protests.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Grafetti from the late November 2019 [[Hong Kong]] [[democracy]] protests reads: "Dear World, CCP will infiltrate your government, Chinese enterprises $ interfere your political stance, China will harvest your home like Xinjiang. BE AWARE or BE NEXT!"<ref>https://twitter.com/HKstreetart/status/1196483549492391937/photo/1</ref>]]
[[File:Hong Kong protests.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Grafetti from the late November 2019 [[Hong Kong]] [[democracy]] protests reads: "Dear World, CCP will infiltrate your government, Chinese enterprises $ interfere your political stance, China will harvest your home like Xinjiang. BE AWARE or BE NEXT!"<ref>https://twitter.com/HKstreetart/status/1196483549492391937/photo/1</ref>]]
Since an outbreak of demonstrations and ethnic unrest in 2009 and clashes involving Uyghurs and Xinjiang security personnel that spiked between 2013 and 2015, [[Chinese Communist Party]] leaders have sought to “stabilize” the e Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) through more
Since an outbreak of demonstrations and ethnic unrest in 2009 and clashes involving Uyghurs and Xinjiang security personnel that spiked between 2013 and 2015, [[Chinese Communist Party]] leaders have sought to “stabilize” the e Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) through more