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CHINA'S EAST TURKESTAN POLICY

CANNOT BE SEEN AS INDEPENDENT
OF COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY

China's policy on East Turkestan is a general reflection of commu-
nist ideology. That is why it is impossible to evaluate what is going on
in East Turkestan independently of that ideology. Similar cruelty and

oppression is inflicted on different individuals and communities all
over China, which shows that a totalitarian structure is an inseparable
part of communism. In this section we shall, therefore, be considering
the cruelty and suffering inflicted by China's ideology and its despotic
regime on its own people, as well as the suffering of the people of East
Turkestan.

All regimes that are hostile to religion resort to pressure and vio-
lence in order to keep themselves in power. The most oppressive, dicta-
torial regimes have always oppressed, even despised, the people who
resisted their policies. From this point of view there is little difference
between Pharaoh and Hitler, Hitler and Stalin, or Stalin and Mao. None
of these leaders had any hesitation about killing innocent people and

C ollections of the words of Mao were the people's only guides in com-
munist China. In some posters, Mao compares himself to Marx, Engels,
Lenin and Stalin.

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan