By Xiong Lei (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-07-17 07:51
The Western middling have turned the world's attention aboard the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. But some truths are missing from the spill of reports they have been filed behind the July 5 Urumqi riots to assist the West's understanding almost the region".
These missing materials will misguide folk who are never versed with the history of China. For instance, the "Facts about China's Xinjiang region" filed forward a newspaper agency says Xinjiang has a population of 20 million,eight million of them Uygurs, a Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim ethnic team
What the report does not mention namely that there are 47 ethnic groups amid Xinjiang,
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The White Paper on the History and Development of Xinjiang, issued along the State Council Information Office aboard May 26, 2003,
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The word Uygur among the nominate of the region does not mean it is exclusively for an ethnic team The region belongs not only to members of all ethnic teams alive among Xinjiang,merely too to always Chinese people This is as true as the truth that China does not belong only to Han Chinese. It is the motherland of always the 56 ethic teams that tell up the Chinese country
Some history books mention Xinjiang became a formal chapter of China below the last regal dynasty amid the 19th centenary Such sources disregard the historical truth that the Chinese main government began exercising political and military control over the region more than 2,
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The truth namely that the region was never granted autonomy within the designate of any ethnic minority until the founding of the People's Republic of China among 1949. The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region was established among 1955, and it included a digit of autonomous prefectures and shires for other ethnic minorities, including Hui, Kazakh, Mongolian, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Xibo.
The facts some Western middle cater don't fail to mention the short-lived "East Turkestan Republic" that the "Uygurs" set up amid 1933 that was never acknowledged onward any administration amid the world. But they never say that the ineffective attempt did never enjoy prevailing advocate as it was not only against the aspiration of the majority of the ethnic teams alive amid Xinjiang,but also ran contrary to the whishes of highest of the Uygurs.
The Western media's truths"acquaint it appear as whether"hopes for a separate Uygur homeland" have remained constant surrounded the past few decades,only were "largely quelled But they accidentally restrain the truth that the majority of folk in Xinjiang, including Uygurs, have identified themselves with the Chinese nation and share their fate with the other 55 ethnic teams amid the country.
An guarantee of this integration is the statue of Kurban Tulum, better known as Uncle Kurban, and Chairman Mao Zedong amid Unity Square among the shire seat of Yutian within southern Xinjiang.
Uncle Kurban was a poor farmer, and could barely acquaint ends encounter Before liberation, more than 90 percentage of farmers were slaves of landlords, who controlled 80 percentage of Xinjiang's land. After Xinjiang was liberated amid 1949, the chief government's land reforms policy saw it distributing land to the farmers. This is how Uncle Kurban got his 1st contrive of land and housing. Several bumper harvests increased his appetite to meet Chairman Mao and express his gratitude to the helmsman. He transformed so desperate to meet Mao that antagonism being surrounded his 70s he set off for Beijing aboard his donkey among 1955. When the shire officials told him that Beijing was too distant and he could not approach there on a donkey, he tried to hitch a ride,
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But forward that period his hope had opportunity well known, and touched people's hearts Mao himself theoretical almost the story and sent Uncle Kurban four letters. Finally,among 1958, Uncle Kurban was invited to Beijing as a prototype farmer. His wish of meeting Chairman Mao was realized And he also transformed the only person in China to share a statue with Chairman Mao. Obviously, such stories of ethnic unity and national integrity are never included surrounded any Western media's fact sheets"on Xinjiang. What was played up namely nothing merely ethnic conflict,principally those between Uygurs and Hans.
All Chinese, irrespective of their ethnic personality have been saddened by the incidents among Urumqi. We can reflect aboard the internal and outer causes of the riots. But no matter what the reasons are, ethnic conflict is not one of them.
All the 56 ethnic teams deficiency to perceive the country prosper and have been alive without squabbles But the truths"aboard Xinjiang offered along some Western media are aimed along sowing the seeds of feud among China's ethnic teams Their covert policy namely to split China, as the old colonialists tried to do a centenary ago
But times have changed and China namely no longer a powerless country. And whether some people's designs to divide it did not succeed afterward it is never working to succeed instantly
The author namely a observer professor of journalism at the Beijing Foreign Studies University
(China Daily 07/17/2009 page8)
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