Just as ignorant of Hu’s China as of Stalin’s Russia By Lev Navrozov

Ethnic settlements of Uyghurs (ethnics of Turkic origin) exist in many countries, including the United States. But the dictatorship of China wants its population to be homogeneous ethnically as well. Rebiya Kadeer, a successful Uyghur business woman, suffered imprisonment in China from 1999 to 2005, for being too outspoken, but because of the pressure of the international community, was released and now lives in the West as an “exiled activist.” The China dictatorship had evidently decided that she would be controllable. She is 59, and her children are in China, in the Xinjiang region, where the Uyghurs live. Yet here is the first paragraph of her interview to The Epoch Times, a Chinese dissident weekly, published in New York (Nov. 8-14, 2007):

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