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Communist Party. The number of people sentenced to death by courts
in East Turkestan or who died as the result of torture between the be-

ginning of 1999 and March, 2000, is estimated to be 2,500. 37
In the genocide campaign being waged by the Chinese govern-
ment in East Turkestan, even children are detained on various charges.
For instance, on October, 30, 1999, the Hotan Municipal Security
Directorate arrested a Turkish girl, a middle school student, on the
grounds that her writing resembled that of a poster that had been put
up in the street. During a speech made by Regional General Secretary
Wang Le Chuan in Hotan, which was closed to the press, he announced
that a primary school student had been arrested because he had torn the

picture of Chairman Mao on the cover of his school book. 38

H undreds of Muslims are martyred in organized executions. Thousands
more are still in prison, awaiting execution.

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar