Uyghur.com

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Uyghur.com
www.euronet.nl/users/sota/turkistan.htm www.usemba
ssy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/xjnotes.htm www.uyg
huramerican.org www.bizuyghur.com www.utoledo.edu/
nlight/mainpage.htm www.eastturkistan.com http
//freeud.tripod.com/cgi-bin/eudict.pl www.ccs.uky
.edu/rakhim/et.html www.taklamakan.org www.uygur.
org www.uyghurinfo.com www.uyghurs.org www.uighur.
co.uk www.ozturkler.com/data_english/0007/0007_13.
htm www.uglychinese.org
www.future-china.org/spcl_rpt/uygr/uyghur.htm www.
wiu.edu/users/mua www.the_uighurs.tripod.com www.u
yghur-dic.org www.china.org.cn/e-groups/shaoshu/sh
ao-2-uygur.htm www.geocities.com/uighurlanguage
www.radicalparty.org/uighur/oetkur_umit.htm www.d
oguturkistan.com http//murad.nease.net www.uighur
.jp www.yuighur.com www.uighur.narod.ru http//www
.oqya.5u.com http//www.uyghur.net http//www.uygh
uristan-informationcenter.org

• Communicating

Ethnic Nationalism

• Through the Internet

www.theuygur.com www.urumqi.gov.cn www.uygur.org/k
ivilcim/index.html www.zarapxan.com
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Cyber-separatism

• The Gladney paper you never saw...
• International campaigns for Uyghur rights and
  possible independence have become increasingly
  vocal and well organized, especially on the
  internet.
• Supported largely by Uyghur émigrés who left
  China prior to the Communist takeover in 1949,
  these organizations maintain a plethora of
  websites and activities that take a primarily
  negative view of Chinese policies in the region.

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Separatism on the Virtual Frontier

• Uyghur websites can be divided into three main
  categories
• Informational and political separatiast
• Ethnic nationalist

www.eastturkistan.com www.uygur.org
www.uyghurinfo.com www.uyghurs.org
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Ethnic Nationalism

• Maintaining links to other Uyghurs
• Some sites offer discussion boards in both
  English and Uyghur for the émigrés
• www.uyghuramerican.org www.bizuyghur.com
• Spreading information on culture
• Sites devoted to Uyghur culture
• www.utoledo.edu/nlight/mainpage.htm
  www.wiu.edu/users/mua
• Uyghur language dictionary projects
• www.geocities.com/uighurlanguage
  www.uyghur-dic.org

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This ones goes to you, Uyghur

• The targeted audience of most of these sights are
  Uyghurs of the diaspora and anyone else who will
  listen
• But nobodys writing to Uyghur
• Chinas strict censorship policy
• Most outside Uyghur sites blocked (but not all)
• Sites inside not allowed to contain political or
  religious content, strictly monitored

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Internet Thought Police

• China, hoping to control the political influence
  of overseas Uyghurs via Internet, has erected a
  firewall to prevent the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
  from accessing the information on overseas
  websites. All the websites in Uyghur languages in
  Xinjiang are required by the Chinese government
  to ban discussions on religion, politics, and
  Uyghur-Chinese related issues.

www.theuygur.com/chinaandinternet.html
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Internet Censorship

• The Internet has proven to be a powerful tool in
  organizing demonstrations within China
• Chinese government uses firewalls to block
  outside sites, holds ICPs responsible for their
  content within China and has arrested people for
  the counter-revolutionary material they download

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Continuing research

• Most of the Uyghur websites are not active, some
  not having been updated for years
• Through censorship and accessibility barriers, it
  will remain difficult for Uyghurs in China to
  access outside sites
• Even if they wanted to access them, most are as
  propaganda-laden as the information coming from
  Beijing