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tion of this law had her child aborted.
These measures, begun in Mao's time, are still in effect. As a result
of forced migration, family planning and killings, the Uyghurs in
Eastern Turkestan have become a minority. Due to the policy of assimi-
lation in effect since 1949, the proportion of Muslims in the Uyghur
Autonomous Region has fallen from 75% to as little as 35%. Today, more
than 25 million Muslims in eastern Turkestan live under Chinese op-
pression. In an area where thousands of Muslim are political prisoners,
many of those arrested are not heard from again.
Another country that fell under the Communist regime's brutality
is Tibet, occupied by the Chinese army just one year after the establish-
ment of a Communist regime. With the acquiescence of its people, Tibet
became an autonomous region bound to China. But Chinese oppression
of the Tibetans has gradually increased. The Chinese administration has
obliged Tibetan peasants to sell their produce at very low prices, put
Chinese immigrants in all of the country's important institutions, and
answered the least resistance with a cruel and bloody response. The
Dalai Lama, who for years has inspired Tibetan resistance to China, de-
scribes the brutality committed by Communist China on his people:
Tibetans not only were shot, but also were beaten to death, cruci-
fied, burned alive, drowned, mutilated, starved, strangled, hanged,
boiled alive, buried alive, drawn and quartered, and beheaded. 99

International sources re-
ported in detail China's bru-
tality in eastern Turkestan. A
special report published by
Amnesty International stated
that the goal was to eradi-
cate the Uyghur Muslims
through torture and execu-
tion. China has subjected
Eastern Turkestan's Muslim
Uyghur population to
decades of genocide. As a re-
sult of nuclear tests deliber-
ately conducted in the
region, large numbers of
children are born deformed.