December 2002

Dear Mr. Chancellor,

We haile your forthcoming visit to the Peoples Republic of China and hope that your talks with the hosts would serve citizens of both countries, and contribute to the stability and peace.

We expect that you in your discussions with the Chinese leadership rise the quetstion of human rights violations and openly criticize the chinese policy of repression against the Uyghur civilians, the Tibetans and the Falun Gong practitioners, and urge them to respect the human rights of their own citizens.

The European Union's overall policy of "human Rights Dialogue" with China had brought little more than tocken words and empty promisses for the last three years, on the contrary the Beijing regime intensified its policy of harsh repression against ethnic and religious groups.

According to international human rights watchdogs like Amnesty International and the Society for Treathened Peoples (GfbV) especially after the September 11th, the policy of supression by the chinese security forces against the Uyghur civilians has intensified. The local CCP chief in East Turkestan Mr. Wang Lequen this week reitrated that the party will intensify a crackdown on so called terrorism, seperatism and extremism. Currently in East Turkestan religious clericks are forcibly indoctrinated, religious practice is curbed, Uyghur books burned and the Uyghur language teachings at the university level abandoned. The Beijing rejime, with its show trials and public executions of Uyghurs, arbitrary arrests and inhumane methods of torture of political prisoners has created an atmpsphere of fear and intimidation in East Turkestan, and have been exercising a policy of state terror against the entire Uyghur people.

We are convinced that the disparity in the human rights policy of Western democracies and the disunity in their approach towards the government of the People Republic of China encourages the Beijing regime to intensify its policy of crack down and "clean house" against so called "seperatists", "extremists" and "terrorists". China is misusing the international campaign against terrorism as a "Green Card" to further suppress peacefull Uyghur dissent. Further silence and ignorance of free, democratic world would lead to destruction of a rich culture and gradual sinisation of the entire Uyghur nation.

Mr. Chancellor,

Therefore, We urgently call you to reconsider your China policy and not to sacrifice human rights for economic and other interests.

Sincerely yours,

Enver Can
President


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