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Foreign publications such as Amnesty
International Briefing and Crescent
International describe in great detail the
oppression and cruelty faced by Muslims
in occupied East Turkestan.

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kilometers away. Some have died on the way to hospital. China's policy
in East Turkestan is a program of mass torture and genocide. According
to information from the East Turkestan Information Center, some 10,000
Uighur Turks were arrested on trumped up charges between the begin-
ning of 1999 and March of that same year, detained under the sort of con-
ditions we have seen above, and sentenced to stiff punishment,

especially the death penalty, by courts operating under the control of the

Communist China’s Policy
of Oppression in East Turkestan