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T here is a huge gulf between the liv-
ing standards of the Chinese peo-
ple living in East Turkestan and the
Muslim Uighurs. This is a result of
the Chinese policy of oppressing
the Muslim population.

Over the 50 years that followed, the Chinese population has risen to 42
percent. It is estimated there are now more than 6 million Chinese in East
Turkestan, whereas 50 years ago there had been fewer than 300,000.
Policies, such as improving agriculture and protecting migrants,
were brought in at the beginning of the 1950s to support the
Chinese settlers in East Turkestan. The rise in ethnic tensions
in the region at the beginning of the 1980s was

accompanied by a relaxing in official policies
in support of Chinese migration. That did not
mean, however, that the government had
abandoned its aim of turning the region into a
Chinese province. This time, the Chinese ele-
ment of the population was raised, as a result
of the number of qualified personnel moved in
to man the factories installed to serve the
Chinese economy in East Turkestan.
China's policy of eroding the Muslim

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar