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regions with no safety precautions being taken. As a result of these
nuclear tests there was a huge rise in cancer rates among the Uighur
Turks and many children were born handicapped or dead.

Uighur Turks were forbidden to have more than one child in East
Turkestan. The children of those who disobeyed were killed inside
their mothers' wombs. As a result of the policy of assimilation pur-
sued since 1953, Muslims who represented 75% of the population in
the Uighur Autonomous region now represent only 35%. East
Turkestan Muslims, with a population of some 25 million are still
subjected to Chinese persecution today.

The Black Book of Communism, a book put together by a team of his-
torians in which the crimes committed under the name of communism

were collected together, describes the savagery of communism in
China as follows:

The whole people were invited to public trials of "counter-
revolutionaries," who almost invariably were condemned
to death. Everyone participated in the executions, shouting
out ""kill, kill"" to the Red Guards whose task it was to
cut victims into pieces. Sometimes the pieces were cooked
and eaten, or force-fed to members of the victim's family

who were still alive and looking on. Everyone was then
invited to a banquet, where the liver and heart of the for-
mer landowner were shared out, and to meetings where a
speaker would address rows of severed heads freshly skew-
ered on stakes. This fascination for vengeful cannibalism,
which later became common under the Pol Pot regime,
echoes a very ancient East Asian archetype that appears

often at cataclysmic moments of Chinese history. 14

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