Page 113 - The Winter of Islam and the Spring to Come

Radio Netherlands, February 13, 2001

TORTURE

IN THEIR

OWN LAND

After 1949, Mao's communist regime murdered some 35 million Uighur
Turks. Some Muslims were burned alive or else beaten almost to death and
then stripped and left to die in the snow. Others were tied to oxen and
then literally torn apart limb-from-limb. None of the people were allowed
to practice their religion freely.
Today Red China is still following Mao's policy and perpetrating the same
cruelty. No human rights organizations are allowed into East Turkestan,
and control of communications lies entirely in the hands of the Chinese state, leaving Muslims to suffer dreadful
oppression.
In just two years, 1995-1997, more than 500,000 Uighur Turks were arrested without cause by the Chinese au-
thorities.
During the same period more than 5,000 people died as the result of torture by the Chinese, or else simply disap-
peared.