(Tokyo, Japan) According to exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer, 10,000 Uighurs "disappeared in one night" during civil turmoil earlier this month in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, China.'Close to 10,000 people in Urumqi disappeared in one night. Where did those people go?' she said in Japan, speaking in her native language through a translator. 'If they died, where did they go?'The Chinese government has reported that 197 people died during the unrest.
Kadeer, 62, the US-based head of the World Uighur Congress, charged that 'the Chinese government is trying to destroy the Uighur people. I want to tell the international community about our situation.'
Citing local sources she had been in contact with, Kadeer said during the unrest from July 5, Chinese police randomly shot people after dark when the electricity went out, and that the next morning people awoke to find many Uighur men had disappeared.
Frankly, it's impossible to know the true numbers of dead and missing because both communists and Muslims are proficient at deceit. In any event, I don't have a horse in the race since they both hate me. I'm Christian.
Notably, charismatic Rebiya Kadeer is compared to the Dalai Lama and is known as the "Mother of All Uighurs." She lives under political asylum in the Washington, D.C., area.
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