Subject: [CivilSoc] Kazakh Uighur Leader Opposes "Hanization" of Xinjiang
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 16:00:58 EDT
This item xposted from the RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 148, Part I, 3
August 2000 <listmanager@list.rferl.org>
UIGHUR ORGANIZATION IN KAZAKHSTAN WARNS AGAINST
RESETTLEMENT OF KAZAKHS FROM XINJIANG
Yusufbek Mukhlisi, who heads the Almaty-based East Turkestan
Liberation Front, told RFE/RL's Almaty bureau on 2 August that his
organization opposes the mass repatriation to Kazakhstan of the
estimated 2 million Kazakh minority in China's neighboring Xinjiang
Autonomous Region.
Visiting Kazakhstan last week, Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao
reached agreement with the Kazakh leadership that those Kazakhs may
emigrate to Kazakhstan (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 31 July 2000). But
Mukhlisi argued that their departure would contribute to the
"Hanization" of the region which the Uighurs consider their homeland,
as the Chinese authorities would bring in more Han to replace the
departing Kazakhs.
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