Page 101 - Communist Chinas Policy of Oppression in East Turkestan

hen the Communist Party
came to power in 1949, China
rapidly turned into a state that spread ter-
ror throughout the world. Its policies based on violence
and pressure have continued unabated since those early days.
Communist ideology's unfeeling and ruthless conduct towards people
and its materialist views that turn relationships between people into
purely mechanical intercourse, has led to a ruthless and cruel govern-
ment instead of a compassionate and just one.
In the communist China established by Mao Tse Tung the belief that
order and stability can only be maintained by means of fear and violence
prevails. As a result, the state tightly controls all aspects of individuals' lives
and ruthlessly punishes anyone it deems appropriate. It is not just citizens
who commit serious crimes in China that are punished. The Chinese state
even arrested women who sent newspaper cuttings to their husbands
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abroad, accusing them of disclosing Chinese state secrets. It can accuse
someone who gave what would appear to be a perfectly harmless quote to a
foreign journalist of committing treason and send him to a labor camp. It is
perfectly understandable that under conditions such as these fear and inse-
curity should prevail instead of peace, security, and stability. In the same
way that it is not possible to talk about feelings such as love, self
sacrifice and compassion in such a social structure, so it is also
out of the question to speak of democracy and human
rights. Chinese citizens are unable to criticize freely
mistakes by the government or freely express
their thoughts, and as a result they are un-
able to effectively push for change or
renewal. The fate of those who