Eastern Turkistan Information Center, 7/2/97

Published by: THE WORLD UYGHUR NETWORK NEWS, July 1, 1997

[ETIC, 7/2/97] Many Eastern Turkistanis have been arbitrarily detained by police under different allegations in cities of Eastern Turkistan and Chinese provinces before and during ceremonies of returning Hong Kong to China. Only in two last days, about 1000 people were arrested in China's provinces. The current situation in Eastern Turkistan is reported as dangerously tense, and it is described by residents of Eastern Turkistan as the worst during the communist Chinese rule comparing it to the periods of vicious stalinist repressions and terror. Everything indicates that the Chinese authorities extremely worry on possibility of large scale uprisings and disturbances among the Uyghurs, but their precautional measures amount in encreasing state terror, repressions, and ideological brainwashing of the Uyghur population of Eastern Turkistan. [Abdullah Pamir]