Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1376-W985

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1376-W985

Release Date: April 29, 2021

发布日：2021年4月29日

Topic: Controversy Over Uyghur History -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：关于维吾尔历史的争论 -- 魏京生

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Controversy Over Uyghur History

-- Wei Jingsheng

Following the U.S. government, the parliaments of several democratic countries passed resolutions declaring the so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang as acts of genocide. This is a major blow to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which cruelly oppresses people of all ethnic groups. People of all ethnic groups clapped and expressed their sympathy and support for the Uyghur people. At the same time, the CCP has also intensified their united front and work to divide its opposition, which has caused great controversy on the Internet.

As for the Han Chinese, in addition to the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, which has supported and helped Uyghurs to defend their human rights for many years, different voices have also appeared. Some people are vigorously advocating that the Han Chinese should kneel and apologize to the Uyghurs. This caused two reactions. Most Han people on the Internet are extremely disgusted with this. It is the Communist regime oppressing the people of all ethnic groups, and not the Han people oppressing the people of all ethnic groups. Why should the Han people apologize to the Uyghurs? Isn't this creating hatred for Uyghur friends? The motivation should be condemned.

Many years ago, a middle-level cadre of the CCP Propaganda Department in Tibet also instigated among Tibetan friends that the Han people should kneel and apologize to the Tibetan people. A few years later, the Tibetans recognized this trick, and the Dalai Lama still maintained good unity with the democracy movement of the Han Chinese. That person has moved away somewhere else, and I hadn't seen her active for a while.

Regrettably, the extremists among the overseas Uyghur friends have jumped out to support the suspicious person. Some have even used extremely bad language to insult the Han people, and even used the same racially discriminatory language as the Nazis to insult the Han. This kind of cooperation cannot be said to be inconsistent, and it has upgraded the language violence of the so-called “public intellectual” a notch. It seems to me that this is not a conflict between different ethnic groups but, there should be a deeper conspiracy.

This “public intellectual” claimed that the Han people are white people in China, so they should kneel down and apologize to the black Uyghurs in China. But some Uyghurs often claimed that they are the white race, at least mixed white. This is a slap in the face on the so-called public intellectual, although from the results of genetic testing, the Uyghur ancestry is basically Mongoloid. However, from the perspective of archaeological discoveries, the ancient residents of Xinjiang did include a large number of white people, including mixed races of Mongoloid and white. Indeed the statement of scholars on Xinjiang is correct, which is another slap on the face on the claims by that public intellectual.

Are modern Uyghurs white race? Obviously not. The original place of residence of Uyghurs was in now Outer Mongolia, which is the same race Mongoloid as the ancient Huns, Xianbei, Turks, and Mongolia. They have no consanguinity with the white Saka. After the Uyghur Khaganate was defeated by the Kyrgyz and moved south, most of the people merged into the northern Han people, and only two small groups moved west to Xinjiang and Central Asia. The group that moved to Xinjiang was taken in by the Han regime at the time, Gaochang Country, and eventually formed Qocho or the Gaochang Uyghur. This is the ancestor of Xinjiang Uyghurs. So one really should not use that kind of vicious language to scold one’s relatives.

Some extreme Uyghurs say that it was the Han who invaded their country. This statement is ridiculously wrong. In history, there was only one country dominated by Uyghur residents, that is the Eastern Chagatai Khanate ruled by the Mongols. In some books, it is also called Turpan Khanate. Most of its inhabitants are Uyghurs, and the location was in now Turpan, or the old Gaochang Country. After it was annihilated twice by the khanates also Mongol branch, eventually, the Dzungar Khanate was destroyed by the Manchu Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and it was officially included as the territory of the Qing Dynasty and was named as Xinjiang Province by the Manchu rulers. This has nothing to do with the Han ethnic groups, and the Han groups never invaded the Uyghur country, nor was there ever a Uyghur country, but only a Mongolian khanate.

What is the meaning of these histories? Don’t the Uyghur people have the right to want independence because there was no Uyghur country before? Of course not. Any group of the people has the right to want their independence, which is called natural human rights. Not only the Uyghurs, but also the Kazakhs, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Hui people and Mongolians all have the right to want independence. But they also have the rights to not want to be independent. It all depends on how it would be more beneficial to the people of all ethnic groups. Further, this will be sorted out after the fall of the unreasonable Communist regime in China.

Under the common cruel oppression of the Communist regime, no matter what reason one has, trying to split between the resistance alliances of the equally weak oppositions can only be said to be an accomplice of the Communist regime. This is not a wrongful accusation.

(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)

Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-04272021091526.html

To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2021/WeiJS210426onUyghurHistory.mp3

(Written and recorded on April 26, 2021. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on April 27, 2021.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1376-W985

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1376-W985

Release Date: April 29, 2021

发布日：2021年4月29日

Topic: Controversy Over Uyghur History -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：关于维吾尔历史的争论 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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关于维吾尔历史的争论

-- 魏京生

继美国政府之后，又有好几个民主国家议会通过决议，把新疆的所谓再教育营定为种族灭绝行为。这是对残酷压迫各族人民的中国共产党的一个重大打击。各族人民莫不拍手称快，表达了对维族人民的同情和支持。与此同时，中共也加大了他们的统战和分化工作，引起了网络上的大论战。

汉族人方面，除了多年支持和帮助维吾尔人维权的中国民主运动海外联席会议之外，还出现了不同的声音。有人在大力鼓吹汉人应该向维吾尔人下跪道歉。这引起了两种反应。网上的大部分汉族人对此极为反感。是共产党压迫了各族人民，又不是汉族人民在压迫各族人民，为什么要让汉族人给维族人道歉呢？这不是在给维族朋友拉仇恨吗？其心可诛。

多年前有一位西藏党委宣传部的中层干部，也在藏族朋友里煽动让汉族给藏族人民下跪道歉。几年后，藏人看穿了这一套把戏，达赖喇嘛仍然和汉族民运保持了良好的团结。那家伙也就灰溜溜地转移阵地，很久没看见她活动了。

遗憾的是，海外维族朋友里的极端派，反而跳出来支持其心可诛的可疑人士。还使用极为恶劣的语言侮辱汉族，甚至使用和纳粹相同的种族歧视语言，来侮辱汉族人民。这样的配合不可谓不默契，把那些公知的语言暴力升级了一个档次。看来这不是什么民族矛盾，应该有更深层次的阴谋。

公知说；汉族人就是中国的白种人，所以应该向中国的黑人维吾尔下跪道歉。可人家维吾尔人经常说自己是白种人，至少是白人混血。这可是打了那位所谓的公知一耳光。虽然从基因测试的结果看，维吾尔的血统基本上是黄种人。但从考古发现的角度看，新疆地区的古代居民确实包含大量的白种人，包括黄白混血。这确实新疆学者们的说法是正确的。又一个耳光。

那现代维吾尔人是不是白种人呢？显然不是。维吾尔人的原居住地是现在的外蒙古，和古代的匈奴、鲜卑、突厥、蒙古是同一个种族。和白种人的塞迦人没有血缘关系。回纥汗国被吉尔吉斯人打败后南迁，大部分人融入到北方汉人里，只有两小部分西迁到新疆和中亚西亚。迁到新疆的一部分被当时的汉族政权高昌国收留，最终形成了高昌回纥。这便是新疆维吾尔人的祖先。所以你们不应该用那么恶毒的语言来骂你们的亲戚。

有一些极端的维吾尔人说；是汉族侵略了他们的国家。这个说法就错得离谱了。历史上只存在过一个维吾尔居民为主的国家，就是蒙古人统治的东察合台汗国。在一些书籍里也被叫做吐鲁番汗国，它的大部分居民是维吾尔族，地点就在现在的吐鲁番，或者说是高昌故国。之后两次被同为蒙古支系的汗国所灭，最终准噶尔汗国被满族的清朝乾隆皇帝所灭，正式归入清朝版图，被称为新疆省。这和汉族没有半毛钱关系，汉族从来没有侵略维吾尔国。也从来没有过维吾尔国，只有蒙古人的汗国。

说这些历史有什么意思呢？难道没有过维吾尔国，维族人民就没有要求独立的权利吗？当然不是。任何一部分人民都有权利要求独立，这被叫做天赋人权。不但维吾尔族，哈萨克族、塔吉克族、吉尔吉斯族、回族、蒙古族都有要求独立的权利。但他们也有不独立的权利。这就要看怎样对各族人民更有利，而且这都要在共产党这个不讲理的政权倒台之后。

在共同受到共产党的残酷压迫之下，在同样弱势下的反抗力量同盟之间搞分裂不管你有什么理由，都只能说你是共产党的同谋。一点也没有冤枉你。

(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)

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