Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial(u.osu.edu)
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Xinjiang University President Tashpolat Tiyip Sentenced to Death in Secret Trial
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2019/01/25/death-sentence-for-a-life-of-service/
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According to Amnesty International, after 2 year suspended death sentence, he could be executed in September of this year: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1710062019ENGL...
Somehow the scariest part was the erasure.
Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, even from the list of presidents of Xinjiang University. Ironically, Sheng Shicai, the Guomindang leader who ruled Xinjiang from 1933-1944, who was described as one of the most evil traitors by the Communist Party, is still listed as a president of the school from 1942-1944. Yet, there is now no trace of Tashpolat Tiyip’s name.
Almost a caricature of an authoritarian approach to dealing with an undesirable.
Articles that praised Tiyip’s achievements are now being systematically deleted from the internet. His name and legacy are being erased, even from the list of presidents of Xinjiang University. Ironically, Sheng Shicai, the Guomindang leader who ruled Xinjiang from 1933-1944, who was described as one of the most evil traitors by the Communist Party, is still listed as a president of the school from 1942-1944. Yet, there is now no trace of Tashpolat Tiyip’s name.
Almost a caricature of an authoritarian approach to dealing with an undesirable.
And some people don't believe me when I tell them that 1984 is a reality in some parts of the world.
> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all.
-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
Timely as ever.
-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
Timely as ever.
hkai(4)
What was he sentenced for?
Trial was secret. But 2017 arrest point to "Strike Hard" campaign targeting violent terrorism. "Two-face" label was also something thrown around by state officials at the time against those who preached separatism.
>against those who preached separatism
Or who just promoted Uyghur language and culture, or didn’t cheer the Party on loudly enough:
https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/turn-in-the-two-faced-the-pl...
EDIT: Do you think I’m exaggerating?
From the link:
“To be more precise, [two-faced] is a castigatory definition that Chinese politicians are using to highlight the “failure” of Uyghur intellectuals to manifest their unwavering and unambiguous allegiance to the CCP.”
“In this sense, Uyghur intellectuals are forced to remain in the black and white world for their very survival; and in so doing, they are forced to abandon and denounce their own deeply rich culture against their will.“
Or who just promoted Uyghur language and culture, or didn’t cheer the Party on loudly enough:
https://thediplomat.com/2018/10/turn-in-the-two-faced-the-pl...
EDIT: Do you think I’m exaggerating?
From the link:
“To be more precise, [two-faced] is a castigatory definition that Chinese politicians are using to highlight the “failure” of Uyghur intellectuals to manifest their unwavering and unambiguous allegiance to the CCP.”
“In this sense, Uyghur intellectuals are forced to remain in the black and white world for their very survival; and in so doing, they are forced to abandon and denounce their own deeply rich culture against their will.“
Sure, definitions malleable to the whims of the state. But that typically leads to jail terms. Hundreds of Uyghur academics have been detained, some died in custody, but as far as I'm aware only Tashpolat Tiyip and Halmurat Ghopur have been formally sentenced to death. Both at around the same time in late 2017 which suggest there might be firmer evidence behind the convictions. Or out of the 13,000 arrests officially categorized as terrorists, these two were arbitrarily being made examples of. It was a year after Chen Quanguo (architect of the camps) became the Party Secretary of Xinjiang and escalated the Strike Hard campaign (there's been no terrorists attacks since he took over), and within weeks of him being promoted to the CPC central politburo. Timing certainly is interesting.
E: I didn't claim you were exaggerating? It takes very loose definitions to rationalize the levels of detainment happening in Xinjiang.
E: I didn't claim you were exaggerating? It takes very loose definitions to rationalize the levels of detainment happening in Xinjiang.
dirasddf(1)
Near the end of the article it says:
"I pressed them further, asking if they could think of anything that may have made him a target. After a long pause, one of his students stated: “the only thing that I can think of is that he used to begin his public statements with a brief greeting in Uyghur language, usually for less than thirty seconds, before he led school meetings in fluent Chinese. Maybe this is why (he was taken).”
"I pressed them further, asking if they could think of anything that may have made him a target. After a long pause, one of his students stated: “the only thing that I can think of is that he used to begin his public statements with a brief greeting in Uyghur language, usually for less than thirty seconds, before he led school meetings in fluent Chinese. Maybe this is why (he was taken).”
The circumstances of this are very strange. What's alarming is that I don't understand why the government would take such extreme action on someone who doesn't appear to be active in any political capacity. At least not active enough to come up in any search engine.
Upon further digging, I did find more information this notion of 'two-faceness' from an article in 2017, around the time he was arrested:
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-security/f...
In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to “bravely stand at the forefront against separatism”.
“We must stand out and reveal ‘two-faced’ people, thoroughly seize bad elements out from the masses, clean them out,” he said.
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Upon further digging, I did find more information this notion of 'two-faceness' from an article in 2017, around the time he was arrested:
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang-security/f...
In a commentary published by the official Xinjiang Daily on Monday, Yasin Sidik, a senior official from Kashgar city in Xinjiang, urged fellow ethnic Uighur cadres to “bravely stand at the forefront against separatism”.
“We must stand out and reveal ‘two-faced’ people, thoroughly seize bad elements out from the masses, clean them out,” he said.
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There is ArchiveBox (self-hosted web archive) for these cases when articles are disappearing.
I thought a million Uighurs disappeared into concentration camps, so hopefully he's still alive in one of those camps
dqonvzpa(2)
Is it related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio...
?
Xinjiang is my hometown, the riots is terrible, many people died in the event(most in the first 2 days), I was impressed becuase I know one man's two twin girls killed in the riots, and the angry man orginized many workers in the next day's riots(revenge...)
It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
>Is it related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2009_%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi_rio.... ?
Well, let us examine this possibility by reading the article.
That was in 2009 and according to the featured article, in 2010 he was promoted to the President and Vice Secretary of the Communist Party of Xinjiang University and he only recently disappeared in 2017.
So I am guessing it would be rather unlikely.
>It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
This is also something of a problem in the commentary, it would appear.
Well, let us examine this possibility by reading the article.
That was in 2009 and according to the featured article, in 2010 he was promoted to the President and Vice Secretary of the Communist Party of Xinjiang University and he only recently disappeared in 2017.
So I am guessing it would be rather unlikely.
>It's a complex thing, as I know, there's too many media misleading, in both side.
This is also something of a problem in the commentary, it would appear.
It's a lot like the HK riots which started as a movement against a law (the very kind of law Tiyip has been taken by) but ended up as a metro station burning game.
I'm in HK and a democrat, sure, but these angelic freedom fighting tales abroad are as misleading as the diabolical black hand rhetoric of the mainland media.
As most human movement, there's a gaussian distribution between two extremes, and the two extremes makes the most noise (because extreme noise brings shocked readers) while most ignore and live on.
I'm in HK and a democrat, sure, but these angelic freedom fighting tales abroad are as misleading as the diabolical black hand rhetoric of the mainland media.
As most human movement, there's a gaussian distribution between two extremes, and the two extremes makes the most noise (because extreme noise brings shocked readers) while most ignore and live on.
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I'm guessing he refused to get involved in official corruption. Nothing is so offensive as an honest man.