escape them and their economic investment in Turkistan will be at great risk. Moreover, they are facing disintegration threats to their country. For this reason, during the 1990s the Chinese put into a program into place that was known as the “Conquest of Eastern Turkistan”, economically and demographically.24 According to this, it was planned that two hundred million Chinese from the Han nation would settle in this region. If no preventives or delaying measures are to be taken, and these dangerous ideals are realized, the Turkistan people, and their history and identity in this country will be erased forever.

3) Social marginalization

When faced by such practices it is totally normal that the Uyghur people are concerned about the future. They observe a decrease in the birth rate among the Uyghur with great despair and resentment. They perceive how the demographic structure has been changed and how the balance has been turned to the advantage of the Han Chinese in some cities. If the Chinese authorities try to prevent the Uyghur people from employing their rights in their own country, from benefiting from their own natural resources, which are used by China without any control mechanisms, then the Uyghurs have the right to resist the Chinese using every financial, spiritual, historic, cultural, and if necessary armed, means of resistance to hand. Moreover, the Chinese are imposing a variety of methods of discrimination in the cruelest possible fashion in fields of business, education, health and residence. Some of these methods are:

a) Forced migration for young girls and as a result an imbalance between males and females,

b) Voluntary or forced marriages between races,

c) Punishing those who request to the rights that have been grabbed from them. China perceives such persons as a threat for the country and aims to eradicate them. It either makes them leave their country or puts them into work camps where their human honor is disregarded. This entire thing means more human resources are wasted.

d) Birth control, the sterilization of women and forced abortions,

e) Dragging hundreds of women into China’s prostitution market,25

f) A policy that intentionally ensures a lack of education. Chinese students, qualified workers, experts and technicians are all encouraged to emigrate from the Turkistan territory. All this causes negative discrimination against the Uyghur people in education, rehabilitation and business opportunities.

g) Prisons and work camps are being constructed in Turkistan to punish criminals. Later on, these are used as migration devices, and people are being settled on these lands. In addition, there is an attempt to increase corruption and the crime rate by forming a criminal element in the country.