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way the government is not only trying to alter the population balance in
its own favor, but is also trying to maintain control of the East
Turkestan economy. The statistics reveal the scale of China's repressive

policies: Only ten percent of the 200,000 industrial workers around the
capital, Urumchi, are Uighurs, the rest are Chinese. Only 10 percent of
the workers in a textile plant near Urumchi are Uighurs. The number of
Uighurs in one textile plant near Kashgar
which employs 12,000 people is only 800. A
tractor factory near Urumchi has 2,100
workers, yet only 13 of these are Uighurs.
A new petro-chemical plant was opened in
the city of Poskam in 1986, and all of the
2,200 workers are Chinese. 71

A ll of East Turkestan's natural wealth is ex-
ploited by China, and another factor the
local population has to battle with is hunger
and poverty.

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar