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Self-Sacrifice in the Qur'an's Moral Teachings

East Turkestan
The Muslims of East Turkestan have lived under Chinese control
for 250 years, and are still oppressed by Beijing. After Mao seized con-
trol of China, these Muslims refused to be assimilated. Thus, plans
were drawn up to subjugate them. Either as the result of being mur-
dered by the People's Liberation Army or by a regime-engineered
famine, 2.8 million people were killed between 1949-52, 3.5 million
people were killed between 1952-57, 6.7 million people died between
1958-60, and 13.3 million people were murdered between 1961-65.
Those who survived were subjected to terrible torture and oppression.
Their oppression was no different from what the Serbs inflicted upon
the Bosnian Muslims or the Albanian majority in Kosovo. Chinese
methods of "justice" were extremely cruel and savage: being buried
alive, being beaten to the point of death and left lying in the snow, or
having their legs attached to oxen and being pulled apart.
Since 1949, Beijing has sought to diminish the number of Muslims,
and make them a minority in their own country by encouraging ethnic
Chinese to move there. Today, Uighurs are forced to live in villages
whereas Chinese have been moved to the cities. In addition, Beijing has
used East Turkestani Muslims as subjects in nuclear experiments. The

first experiments, which took place on October 16, 1964, caused many
people in the region to come down with fatal illnesses. In addition,
20,000 deformed children were born, as many as 210,000 Muslims died,
and thousands of people were either maimed or suffered from cancer.
From 1964 to the present day, nearly 50 atom bombs have been
detonated in East Turkestan. Swedish experts determined that a nu-
clear bomb detonated experimentally in 1984 registered 6.8 on the
Richter scale.
In its attempt to make the people of East Turkestan give up their

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