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political tool, designed to stabilize the western regions, which borders
with Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. Stabilization necessitates Chinese
government suppression, by political or military means, of move-
ments demanding autonomy or independence. The Chinese govern-
ment is thus caught in a bind. China cannot attract foreign capital [to]
China's West if there is constant danger of riots, demonstrations
and sabotage. 64

The words "economic reconstruction," are actually a tool em-
ployed by China to attract foreign capital into the region. The real aim is
to uphold a system and its component bodies that will allow it to ex-
ploit the region for its own interests. As we saw in the preceding sec-
tion, China has managed to take advantage of foreign capital under a
number of pretexts, and used it to oppress the Muslims of East

Turkestan and to violate their human rights in a most ruthless manner.
For instance, a similar reconstruction plan was implemented in
Kashgar, and Muslim farmers were forced off their own lands and
obliged to work elsewhere. In fact, every initiative that Red China has
undertaken to pull the wool over the eyes of the West has resulted in
greater oppression of Muslims, a rise in violence, and in their being
forced to give up their land to the Chinese.

THE AUTONOMOUS ADMINISTRATION
DECEPTION

East Turkestan is today known in political literature as the "Uighur
Autonomous Region of Sinkiang." The concept of "autonomous admin-
istration" means a form of government that answers not to the wishes
and instructions of central administration, but rather to the needs and
wishes of the majority of the population, and is indeed semi-indepen-

dent. However, the form of autonomous administration practiced in

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