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the innocent people of East Turkestan be freed from this repression forth-
with.
No-one of good conscience can accept this Chinese oppression. It

should leave the people of East Turkestan to live by their own means, in
freedom in a state of their own. If China wishes to trade, by all means let
it do so. But if it wants to engage in exploitation, that is totally unaccept-
able. What does China want from East Turkestan, and what will it gain by
keeping it captive? How can keeping it captive make China happy? What
joy can that bring it? Is that a triumph? It should completely withdraw
from East Turkestan. Let the people there go to mosques and factories in
freedom. Let them converse together and share the joy of a festival. China
must now perform a good deed there. The time has come. The whole
world will love China when it says: "This country is one deserving of inde-
pendence. There was no need for us to interfere in it. There was no point
and no logic to it. This is no longer tolerable in the 21st century. We are

withdrawing our troops. We are lifting our political pressure. We declare
it to be a free state." Everyone will respect it. Just see how China then
opens up to the rest of the world. It must leave East Turkestan to become
a secular democracy and take its place in the world as an independent
state. China will become very much richer. It must not think that it has
anything to lose. It will gain prestige, rather than losing it. This is not
something to be made a matter of pride. If it withdraws from East
Turkestan, agreements regarding it can be made. They can be given more
oil and electricity. There is no question of them being left with any short-
ages. Islamic countries will want to sell electricity, oil and energy. That
would be to their advantage. If necessary, it can be sold to them on the
cheap, as long as they abandon this oppression and injustice. They can
demand petrol, or electricity or natural gas, but they cannot oppress and
imprison millions of people for the sake of those. This can be brought

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