Central Asian Uighurs Voice Concern of Deporting Uighur Refugees


July 07, 2004


ANKARA, - Ethnic Uighurs fleeing China's northwest Xinjiang Uighur


Autonomous Region (XUAR) to Central Asia as a result of Beijing's


crackdown


on political and religious dissent are allegedly being deported back to


China, where they face persecution, Uighur leaders in Central Asia say.


Their claim is endorsed by Amnesty International (AI).


"Human rights abuses are the main driving force behind the flow of


asylum


seekers from Xinjiang. But Uighurs seeking asylum in Central Asia are


deported back [to China] because the countries [in the region] don't


give


them political asylum," Kahriman Gojamberdi, representative of the


German-based World Uighur Congress, told IRIN from the Kazakh


commercial


capital Almaty on Wednesday.


In the past a number of Uighur asylum seekers who came to Kazakhstan


were


deported back to China, where they were subsequently executed, he


claimed,


conceding that fresh information on such incidents was not transparent.


"Kazakhstan now deports or sends them back secretly," he maintained.


The situation in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan is no different. Although


there


have been no recent incidents in which Uighurs have been deported to


China,


there were cases in 2001 and 2002, Nurmuhammed Kenji, director of the


Kyrgyzstan-based Central Asian Uighur Information and Project Centre,


told


IRIN from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.


"As China hasn't yet abolished the death penalty, handing people over


who


could be executed is a violation of international law," he said.


"There is an agreement between the intelligence services of Central


Asian


states and China within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation


Organisation


[regional security and cooperation body comprising China, Russia and


the


ex-Soviet Central Asian republics except Turkmenistan]. Based on that


agreement, they exchange such persons [wanted by the respective secret


services]," Gojamberdi explained.


Such comments coincide with a new report by AI saying Beijing was using


the


"war on terror" to justify its longstanding repression of the rights of


the


Uighur community. As a result, many Uighurs flee to neighbouring


countries -


including Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, home to an estimated 360,000


ethnic


Uighurs - only to be forcibly returned to China where they face torture


and


execution.


"China has repackaged its repression of Uighurs as a fight against


'terrorism'," AI said in a statement. "Since the 11 September 2001


attacks


on the USA, the Chinese government has been using 'anti-terrorism' as a


pretext to increase its crackdown on all forms of political or


religious


dissent in the region."


Gojamberdi agreed. "Human rights abuses are the main driving force


behind


the flow of asylum seekers from Xinjiang," he said.


Over the past three years, tens of thousands of people have been


reportedly


detained on "anti-terrorism" grounds in the XUAR, AI said. This is


despite


the claim by the regional authorities in April that "not one incident


of


explosion or assassination had taken place in the last few years".


Gojamberdi said that the international community should influence the


parliaments and other state bodies in the region so that Uighur


asylum-seekers were not returned to China.


Meanwhile, Kenji from Kyrgyzstan called for a constructive dialogue


with the


participation of Beijing and Uighur organisations in the world. "We


should


begin with establishing a platform for exchanging views. Confrontation


never


leads to a solution," he maintained.


For the complete copy of the report please go to


http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa170212004


The material contained in this article is from IRIN, a UN humanitarian


information unit, but may not necessarily reflect the views of the


United


Nations or its agencies.


Copyright ?? UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs


2004

By P. David Hornik


FrontPageMagazine.com | July 15, 2004


The World Court’s ruling against Israel’s fence reveals that for the UN-EU establishment that it represents, there’s not much Israel can do that would escape condemnation other than lie down and die.


Targeted killings of terror masters are out. Military operations in places like Rafah or Jenin are out; they spark media frenzies of alleged massacres and wanton killing of civilians. Demolitions of the homes of suicide bombers—the only thing that can deter people who seek their own death—are out. Even curfews, roadblocks—out; they’re seen as oppressing the Palestinian people.


And now the moralists of the World Court have informed us that passive defense, too, is out. Adopting the official Arab League take on the legal status of the West Bank and airbrushing Palestinian terror out of the picture, the Court has ordered us to tear the fence down and start back where we were a couple of years ago when a few days without a suicide bombing seemed blessedly peaceful.


Less than two weeks earlier Israel’s Supreme Court, whose justices mainly represent the Left-liberal part of Israeli society, had ruled that the fence was a legitimate security measure, but parts of it would have to be rerouted because they inconvenienced the local Palestinian population. The same sort of Israelis who think Israel could redeem itself in the world’s eyes by removing this or that settlement, or withdrawing from this or that piece of land, or signing this or that treaty, hoped that the Israeli Court’s ruling—which clearly rated Palestinian convenience over Israeli lives in some cases—would favorably influence the Court in The Hague. Now they know it made no difference at all.


The World Court’s ruling was read out in solemn tones by its President, Shi Jiuyong of the People’s Republic of China. It’s a good thing Mr. Shi is so concerned with Israeli morality, since it spares him having to glance backward at his own country—which Freedom House, in its “Freedom in the World” report for 2003, ranks 7 for political rights and 6 for civil liberties on a descending 1-7 scale (by the way, Israel ranks 1 and 3, respectively). Freedom House gives some more detailed information on the state of rights and liberties in the PRC, and this is just a sample:


"China is one of the most authoritarian states in the world. Opposition parties are illegal, the CCP controls the judiciary, and ordinary Chinese enjoy few basic rights. . . . [A]ccording to [a] State Department report[,] officials often subject prisoners to “severe psychological pressure” to confess using legal loopholes to prevent suspects from obtaining counsel . . . . Officials bypass the courts entirely in jailing, without trial, hundreds of thousands of Chinese each year. . . . By most accounts, Chinese prisons, re-education camps, and detention centers hold thousands of political prisoners. . . . Even after they are released, many former political prisoners face unrelenting police harassment that prevents them from holding jobs or otherwise leading normal lives. China executes thousands of people each year, more than all other countries combined. . . . Many are executed immediately after summary trials, and often for nonviolent crimes. . . . many Chinese have been executed for nonviolent offenses such as corruption, pimping, hooliganism, or the theft of farm animals or rice. . . . Law enforcement officials routinely torture suspects to extract confessions. . . . The regime sharply restricts press freedom. . . . Chinese jails held 36 journalists as of December 2002, 14 of whom were serving time for publishing or distributing information online. . . . Beijing sharply restricts religious freedom . . . . [Z]ealous local officials . . . harass and at times fine, detain, beat, and torture church leaders or ordinary worshippers. . . . In Xinjiang, officials sharply restrict the building of new mosques, limit Islamic publications and education, ban religious practice by those under 18, and control the leadership of mosques and religious schools. . . ."


Yes, Mr. Shi, I hope you represent your country proudly on the Court of Justice, and are bearing down hard on all those Israeli infractions.


Shi’s second-in-command is the Court's vice-president, Raymond Ranjeva of Madagascar. With a 3, 4 ranking on political rights and civil liberties, Madagascar in fact does much better than China, but it’s no paradise either:


"Most of the 20,000 people held in the country's prisons are pretrial detainees, who suffer extremely harsh conditions. In many rural areas, customary law courts that follow neither due process nor standardized judicial procedure often issue summary and severe punishments."


Then there’s Nabil Elaraby, the Egyptian justice. Nobody fell off his chair in shock when Elaraby—who has no problem serving under President Shi, whose country officially discriminates against and oppresses Muslims and Islam—voted along with the 14-1 majority to condemn Israel’s fence. Back in 2001, two months before he was elected to the World Court, Al-Ahram stated Elaraby’s views on Israel as follows: “New facts and new problems are created on the ground.… Grave violations of humanitarian law ensue . . . the atrocities perpetrated on Palestinian civilian populations, for instance. . . . Israel is occupying Palestinian territory, and the occupation itself is against international law.” But last January, when Israel requested that Elaraby be removed from the fence case, it got nowhere. As for human rights in Egypt (rankings: 6, 6), a few details from Freedom House:


"The Emergency Law . . . allows for the arrest without charge and prolonged pretrial detention of suspects, as well as their families and acquaintances. Torture and inadequate food and medical care are pervasive in custody. In November 2002, Amnesty International published a report stating that “everyone taken into detention in Egypt is at risk of torture.” The authorities rarely investigate the abuse of detainees (unless they die in custody). . . . Although non-Muslims are generally able to worship freely, the government has seized church-owned property and frequently denies permission to build or repair churches. In recent years, Muslim extremists have murdered, kidnapped, raped, and forcibly converted scores of Copts, and burned or vandalized Coptic homes, businesses, and churches; the few perpetrators who have been brought to trial have been acquitted or received light sentences."


And so it goes. Israel also found itself chastised in this ruling by Jordan, the Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, and Venezuela (respective Freedom House rankings: 6, 5; 5, 5; 4, 4; 3, 4). All these countries have considerable human rights problems at home that, ideally, they would tend to first; instead, their representatives on the Court voted to remove Israelis’ right to life and affirm Palestinian terrorists’ right to slaughter them unimpeded.


And then there were the democracies that voted in favor. They included France and Belgium, the biggest Arafat-groupies on the planet; the Netherlands, which hosted the evil farce; as well as Brazil, Germany (the less said the better), Japan, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom, a country not totally in the EUnuch camp that showed, with this ruling, that where Israel is concerned it stands—or grovels—with the most abject of the appeasers.


The lone dissenting vote by the American judge, Thomas Buergenthal, together with the bipartisan dismissals of the Court’s ruling by American leaders, were the only rays of light in a very dark picture.

Uighur Militant Reported Executed by China


Jim Lobe


OneWorld US http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/89900/1/


Tue., Jul. 13, 2004


WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 13 (OneWorld) - The reported execution of an alleged Uighur "separatist" in China's Xinjiang province is adding to concern by human rights groups that Beijing is taking advantage of the ongoing "war on terrorism" to crack down on the predominantly Muslim indigenous population in its westernmost territory.


Kuerban Tudaji was reportedly sentenced to death on June 30 after his conviction for "manufacturing explosives, firearms and ammunition" as part of an effort to "split the country" and "organize terrorist training" between 1998 and 2000.


Amnesty International, which only last week issued a major report on the situation in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), as the province is known formally, condemned the reported execution, suggesting that the defendant may not have received a fair trial and appealing for the authorities to make public the evidence it presented against him.


Amnesty charged in its report released last Wednesday that tens of thousands of people in XUAR have been detained since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York and the Pentagon. After the attacks, Beijing swiftly pledged its cooperation in the "war on terror" and intensified its crackdown against the Uighur population of about seven million.


"China has repackaged its repression of Uighurs as a fight against 'terrorism,'" Amnesty said in its latest report. "Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA, the Chinese government has been using 'anti-terrorism' as a pretext to increase its crackdown on all forms of political or religious dissent in the region." It noted that the crackdown has continued despite the fact that the head of XUAR's government admitted last April that "not one incident of explosion or assassination took place (there) in the last few years."


It also noted that many Uighurs have fled to neighboring countries, such as Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Nepal and Pakistan but have been forcibly repatriated as a result of Chinese pressure on the host governments. In one recent case, an exile was executed after being returned from Nepal even though he had been accorded official refugee status by the UN High Commission for Refugees and was awaiting resettlement to a third country at the time of his arrest by Nepali authorities and subsequent return to China.


At least 22 Uighur prisoners captured in Afghanistan during and after the U.S.-led military campaign in 2001 are among the 595 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Bush administration which, according to some reports, permitted Chinese officials to interrogate the detainees in 2002, has ruled out repatriating them on the grounds that they may be subject to torture or execution. Amnesty said it had received reports that the prisoners were subjected to "stress and duress" techniques and sleep deprivation during the interrogation, but this account has not been confirmed.


Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking people who only came under China's rule in the mid-19th century, still refer to their territory as East Turkestan. Fifty years ago, they made up more than 80 percent of the population, but steady ethnic-Han Chinese im-migration, encouraged by Beijing and spurred by oil production and growing links with Central Asia, has brought their percentage down to less than half.


Tensions, fuelled by racial discrimination against the Uighurs in both education and employment, rose risen steadily since the late 1980s. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of Central Asian states ethnically related to the Uighurs sparked a wave of nationalism among the Uighurs that has become more powerful over the past decade. In 1997, a Uighur demonstration in Yining erupted into a riot in which nine people were killed.


In addition to detaining tens of thousands of Uighurs - the vast majority of whom have believed never to have used or advocated violence - the government has shut down a number of mosques and banned some religious schools and practices.


Islamic clergy, for example, have been subjected to "political education" designed to give them "a clearer understanding of the party's ethnic and religious policies," while some clerics have been detained for teaching the Koran.


In addition to the restrictions on religious schools and mosques, tens of thousands of Uighur books have reportedly been banned and burned, while the Uighur has been banned as a language in which courses can be taught for most subjects in Xinjiang University.


"At current levels of repression, the space for independent expression of Uighur cultural or religious identity is narrowing dangerously," Amnesty said.


The most famous of the prisoners is Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman and mother of 11 whose accomplishments were promoted by the government through much of the 1990s as a model for the country as a whole. In 2000, however, she was sentenced in a secret trial to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners." In fact, the information she was charged with providing were newspaper articles sent from her to her husband who had moved to the United States after serving a sentence for a political crime in China. Washington has long called for her release, and, while her sentenced was reduced by one year in March, her imprisonment continues.


The report that Uighurs are currently suffering high rates of unemployment in their homeland, largely due to the influx of Han Chinese into the region. Han Chinese also reportedly are buying up property, forcing Uighurs from their land.

<b>on April 15, 2004</b>


Bin Laden Offers Truce to Europe


In a tape which aired on Arab satellite networks, al Qaeda leader <b>Osama bin Laden offers a truce to European countries if they pull their troops out of the Middle East.</b> CIA officials say the tape appears to be genuine. The tape cites recent events, such as the death of the founder of the Palestinian Hamas group.


the answer:


<b>Europe: No deal with bin Laden</b>


<b>European politicians have ruled out negotiating with Osama bin Laden </b>after a tape the CIA says is likely to be that of the <b>al Qaeda leader offered a truce to European nations if they pull troops out of Islamic countries</b>.


<b>a three-month deadline, starting April 15, for countries to stop attacking Muslims. ends in 24 hours !!!</b>


la illah illa ALLAH mohammed rasool Allah

<b>Who Really Wants to Invade Saudi Arabia, and Why? </b>


<b>Michael Moore’s new film “Fahrenheit 9/11” has done a tremendous favor for some proponents of a war upon the Arabian Peninsula</b>. The film achieves what endless pages of conservative think-tank studies and panel discussions, hours of PR time and books can not: spill gasoline on the anti-Saudi sparks already ignited within the United States. Moore's film lambastes the Saudis not only for their business relationships but also for leaving the US after the attacks of September 11th 2001 as did other non-Saudi officials on the same day when specific flights were permitted. <b>The overwhelming popularity of this documentary takes the anti-Saudi message to a whole new market. It is the latest manifestation of a rationale for war that could finally execute a long-term plan to invade and occupy the Kingdom</b>. In spite of its progressive producer and target audience, “Fahrenheit 9/11” falls lock-step in line with the stated agenda of neoconservative hawks: rid Arabia of the House of Saud thereby granting the US and allies full access to the Middle East's biggest prize.


The Take-Over Plan






Source: London Sunday Times, February 1975


In Feb. 1975 the London Sunday Times revealed information from a leaked and classified U.S. Department of Defense plan. The plan was code-named <b>"Dhahran Option Four" and provided for an invasion of the world's largest oil reserves, namely Saudi Arabia</b>.


<b>Classified Plans Brought to Light</b>


<b>In 1973, the Nixon administration described a plan of attack against Saudi Arabia to seize its oil fields</b> in a classified Joint Intelligence Report entitled "UK Eyes Alpha." British MI5 and MI6 were informed, and under British National Archive rules, the document was declassified in Dec. 2003. The oil embargo had been over for only three weeks but "Eyes Alpha" suggested that the "U.S. could guarantee sufficient oil supplies for themselves and their allies by taking the oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the Gulf State of Abu Dhabi." It followed that "preemptive" action would be considered, and that two brigades could seize the Saudi oilfields and one brigade each could take Kuwait and Abu Dhabi
.


<b>The Approaching Decision</b>


On June 25, 2004, Michael Moore's film, Fahrenheit 9/11 opened to 500 screens and insatiable crowds. The film's message to audiences is clear and simple: the U.S.-Saudi relationship must end.

Praise be to Allah and prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed, his household and companions


In this post we are going to examine an important issue that has been bothering all of us lately, which is the definition of terrorism. Taking in consideration that what actually bothers us is that it became a synonym to Muslims in a sense of incriminating us as a nation.


Insh a Allah I seek Allah’s close guidance to assist me in presenting how I think about this issue and allow me to produce the correct points.


Let us start with looking into the pattern of several wars, for example what happened during the 1991 war between Iraq and Kuwait, 1991 Operation Desert Shield between the USA and Iraq in Kuwait, 1967 between Israel and Egypt, 1976 between Egypt and Israel, and many other examples.


All these wars share a common characteristic which is depending mainly on the factor of sudden surprise on the first strike in order to unstabilize the other party (enemy of course). So the objective is to cause the enemy loose focus, capability and stability in order to be easily defeated. Part of the aim also is to send terrifying messages to the enemy so as to defeat its resistance and moral capability.


We may conclude that any military strategic tactic depends on a strong, sudden, and terrifying act towards the target to ensure a full loss of control, defense, focus, unity and more. Again to terrorize the target.


Therefore, if the manmade military strategies legitimize terrorism in cases of war in order for the attacking party (regardless of whether or not that party owns the right to do so, this is not my core of interest in this discussion, if u observe I gave various war examples without an emphasis on Islam or Muslims) to ensure winning the war.


Let us get to Quran and how it deals with this point, since our manual (the Quran did not and I emphasis did not overlook any aspect of our life without producing the proper regulation).


“And make ready against them all you can of power, <b>including steeds of war (tanks, planes, missiles, artillery, etc.) </b><b>to hreaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy, and others besides whom
</b>, you may not know but whom Allah does know. And whatever you shall spend in the Cause of Allah shall be repaid unto you, and you shall not be treated unjustly” (Quran 8:60).


With all due respect to the translator, but he modified the word into modern war machines. The Ayah precisely say prepare for them all what u can of power and the tie of horses with which u may terrorize and threaten the enemy of Allah and your enemy. I found myself responsible with all my Arabic native speakers on this board to help our fellow Muslims who are not Arabic native speakers gain better understanding of the Quran specially after looking into this Ayah. The word in the red font in Arabic which is translated as threaten is “Turhibun” derived from urhib which is literally to terrorize.


Please examine the noble Ayah carefully before jumping into any conclusion or feeling a deep need to defend the image of your religion. Our religion does not need to. We are commanded to prepare every possible means that terrorize and threaten the enemy of Allah and others known only to Him. Only the enemy of Allah and us.


If we don’t how will we win a battle can u tell me?, by pushing the shoulder of the enemy telling him how bad he is and that he must reconsider fighting Allah, or by telling him O please go away and leave us alone don’t kill us please. No we must act harsh and strong just as appropriate to our religion. But again this is only legitimate during war. Thus, we can not really make haphazard decisions on any Muslim launching an aggression or an attack against a group of people, since they we are not aware of full details of the situation. Again the situation is what makes it legitimate or not. Please just consider this point. The given situation on which the attach was launched is what makes it legitimate or not.


I recall reading about a companion can not remember his name, who decided on a battle to take a risk by penetrating all of a sudden into the lines of the other party in a move that will certainly result into confusion and instability. Brothers and sisters we must be aware of what is a military tactic all about.


This terrorism issue is carefully engineered by the Western media to trap us into a pitch of how to defend our image and to do that we even sometime go to the extreme of being unjust to our brothers and sisterS.


Brothers and sisters, we all agree that killing armless civilians, children, women and elderly is not allowed in an Islamic context of war. We are also aware of the incident when Zaid Ibn Haretha killed a Mushrik during a battle after pronouncing the Shahada and was seriously blamed by the Messenger for doing so till he said I wished I did not embrace Islam before that day. The Messenger told him did u slit his heart to be sure that he did not mean it.


But again and again, we are dealing with issues in which we depend on media as source of information. For a change let the Quran and Sunnah be our guide when it comes to the global war being aggressively launched against us.


Alhamdulelah who guided us for this and if it was not for Him we would not have been guided. Whatever is correct in this post is from Allah, and whatever is wrong is from me and shaytan


Prayer and peace be on our leader and teacher and Messenger Mohamed, his household and companions

assalam alykom


i read Malcom X autobiography.. pingune puplished.


i havn't undersatand many words:) ( what a sense) but i still read on it.. the great chapter of this book is : his journey to Makkah.. it has many funny sitution and it has a many great ideas about the conflict between balck people ana white ...also it has many good description about Hajj&Umrah,, pligrams.. saudi people..and so on..


very nice book .. i suggest this book ...to read . espeacially to those who are takecare about black&white people confilict.


thank you..

as'lam alykom brothers..


i've seen some simple problems.. here in some brothers writing.. plz make sure to..:


1- if you want to write the word ( Allah) : DO not write it (allah)..at all even refernceses such as ( Him , He, God ..and so on) which is releated to the name of God.


2- the name of the holy place Makkah , Do not write it (mecca) becuse mecca is name of a kind of cow's in Amrica. also, ( Makkah) is become a well-known name, so there is no need to use ( mecca) AT ALL.


3- capital letters in the internet dictinory mean's: screaming or talking very loudly. like .. BUZZ or I MISS you.. and so on ..


4- i heard some brothers said : I love you in Allah. thats wrong i think. if you want so .. you should say: I love you in the sake of Allah.


..thats it,, i knew that some brothers knows these things perfectly.. but just to remember..


thank you brothers..


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my E.mail is :


abotariq_gh@hotmail.com


i'ts my pleasure ..to have a nice chat.

Salam to all members and i am happy to join this board . and i hope that i can help any one of you either muslims or non muslims and feel free to contact me any time .


salam alikm

Salam


Let's se how many hadiths we can all find which have been narrated by Usama Bin Zaid or are about him.


I'll start You off....................


Hadith 2:730


Narrated Usama bin Zaid


rode behind Allah's Apostle from 'Arafat and when Allah's Apostle reached the mountain pass on the left side which is before Al-Muzdalifa he made his camel kneel and then urinated, and then I poured water for his ablution. He performed light ablution and then I said to him: (Is it the time for) the prayer, O Allah's Apostle!" He replied, "The (place of) prayer is ahead of you (i.e. at Al-Muzdalifa)." So Allah's Apostle rode till he reached Al-Muzdalifa and then he offered the prayer (there) . Then in the morning (10th Dhul-Hijja) Al-Faql (bin Abbas) rode behind Allah's Apostle. Kuraib, (a sub-narrator) said that 'Abdullah bin Abbas narrated from Al-Fadl, "Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) kept on reciting Talbiya (during the journey) till he reached the Jamra." (Jamrat-al-Aqaba)