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उइघुर मुसलमान जानिए चीन में इस्लाम की दशा करंट अफेयर्स 2018
Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell
Recent development
- China to fund construction of counter-terrorism base in northern Afghanistan(Badakshan province)
- The purpose is to block cross-border infiltration of the ethnic Chinese Uyghur militants
- China would provide financial support to build the base
The Uyghurs
- The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group living in East and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China
Xinjiang territory
- China’s largest province Xinjiang is bordered by eight countries including the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
- The region experienced a brief period of independence in the 1940s but China regained control after the Communists took power in 1949.
- Rich in natural resources, economic development in the region has been accompanied by large-scale immigration of Han Chinese.
- Many Uighurs complain of discrimination and marginalisation by the Chinese authorities. Anti-Han and separatist sentiment has become more prevalent since the 1990s, flaring into violence on occasion.
Go West
- Xinjiang’s crisis is a result of growing discontent among Uighur people that was fuelled by China’s domestic policy in the region. Many of the Uighurs has grievances that are driven by ethnic, religious and cultural factors.
- The development, from the 1950s, of mineral resources and the opening up of the region for cotton production, brought an influx of ethnic Chinese which dramatically altered the province’s ethnic balance. In 1949, Xinjiang had 3.2 millions Uighurs and only 140,000 Chinese. Now, of the total population, 40 per cent are Han, and only 47 per cent are Uighur. Uighurs fear they might soon be significantly outnumbered.
- In an attempt to close the gap in income and wealth terms between the rapidly growing eastern coastal provinces and the western China 1999 Chinese President Jiang Zemin launched the Western Development campaign, popularly known as “Go West!”. Jiang’s plan focused on massive infrastructure investment in Xinjiang, Tibet, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regions, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Guizhou provinces and Chonqing municipality – totaling 56% of China’s land area and 23% of the population. The results in Xinjiang of the campaign show an impressive record of achievement on the part of the Chinese Authorities.
“War on Terror”
- No iconic leaders
- Unlike the Tibetans, however, the Uighurs are Muslims, and they do not have an internationally iconic leader like the Dalai Lama who can campaign and raise awareness on their behalf.
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