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...Union and Communist China than divides them. But what divides them is becoming more and more conspicuous. Ageless national conflicts are already pulling Russia and China in different directions. Under the impact of their exploding population, the Chinese are moving westward and northward into the border lands of Mongolia, Sinkiang and Manchuria (where population has doubled since...
Joan of Arc. Early in their occupation, the Chinese Reds wiped out Sinkiang's original Moslem leaders. Looking for someone else to lead them, the restive Moslems turned to one Abraim Aysaev, an Uighur regional official who had been thinking dangerous thoughts since returning from a Communist-sponsored junket to the Middle East in 1958. Discovered by the secret police early this year, Aysaev was summoned to party headquarters. That night, according to the Communists, he returned to his hotel and killed himself. Fearing public outcry, the Reds buried him without a funeral...
Since then, according to refugees from Sinkiang who have made it to Hong Kong, Moslem resistance has flickered across Sinkiang. In the Altai mountains, tribesmen fought Red troops for two months. From Kara Kash came word of a 23-year-old Moslem woman called Pashakhan, who, waving a star-and-crescent flag, led a crowd from a mosque to sack the local police station and to fight on with captured weapons for two weeks before being taken and shot...
Sharing the Bed. Peking's answer has been to throw in youth brigades of Chinese. The Communist Sinkiang Daily claimed that natives "voluntarily gave up their houses and beds to these young people." Last month, in a special meeting, the Sinkiang party organization decided the opposition of "a small number of demobilized servicemen and commune members" has become "the main obstacle to a further strengthening of the people's communes," decreed that, beginning this week, "the stubborn resistance of a few rightist opposition elements who attempt to carry out underground activities should be promptly corrected...
...winter snows and 20°-below winds whistled down over Sinkiang's reed huts, refugees report that, despite party and army, the Kazakhs have not yet acknowledged their masters...