1943 –-
Muhammad Amin Bughra (also Muḥammad Amīn Bughra;Uyghur :مۇھەممەدئىمىنبۇغرا,محمدأمينبغرا,МухаммадЭминБугро;Chinese :穆罕默德·伊敏; pinyin :Mùhǎnmòdé·Yīmǐn),sometimes known by his Han name Mao Deming (Chinese :毛德明) and his Turkish name Mehmet Emin Buğra (1901–1965), [2] was a Uyghur Muslim leader who planned to set up a sovereign state,the First East Turkestan Republic. Muhammad Amin Bughra was a Jadidist. [3]
In the spring of 1937,rebellion again broke out in Southern Sinkiang. A number of factors contributed to the outbreak. In an effort to appease the Turkic Muslims,Sheng Shicai had appointed a number of their non-secessionist leaders,including Khoja Niyaz Hajji and Yulbars Khan,another leader of the Kumul uprising (February 20,1931- November 30,1931),to positions of influence in the provincial government,both in Di Hua (modern Ürümqi) and Kashgar.
At the same time,educational reforms,which attacked basic Islamic principles and the atheistic propaganda program,which was being extended into the south,were further alienating the local population from Sheng's administration. In Kashgar Mahmud Sijang,a wealthy Muslim,former leader of the Turpan uprising (1932) and one of Sheng's appointees,became the focal point for opposition to the government.
Meanwhile,in Afghanistan under Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan,Muhammad Amin Bughra,the exiled leader of the Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (TIRET,known as the first East Turkestan Republic),had approached the Japanese ambassador in 1935 with "a detailed plan proposing the establishment of an 'Eastern Turkestan Republic' under Japanese sponsorship,with munitions and finance to be supplied by Tokyo... he suggested as the future leader of this proposed Central Asian 'Manchukuo' none other than Mahmud Sijang (Mahmut Muhiti - commander of the 6th Uyghur Division,stationed in Kashgar as part of the Sinkiang provincial armed forces,since July 20,1934),amongst the invitation at such political entity as Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere how active member." However,this plan was aborted when Mahmud,fearful for his life,fled from Kashgar to India on April 2,1937,after failed attempt of Sheng Shicai to disarm his troops by offering to "modernize" weapons of 6th Uyghur Division,prior which all old weapons of Division was to be given over to Urumchi representatives.
Mahmud's flight sparked an uprising amongst his troops against provincial authorities. [4] Those who were pro-Soviet in any way were executed and yet another independent Muslim administration was set up under leadership of the close associate of Mahmut Muhiti General Abduniyaz (killed in action in Yarkand on August 15,1937),who adopted a command of troops,which enlisted about 4,000 soldiers and officers,consisted of 4 regiments,two of them being stationed in Kashgar,one in Yangihissar,one in Yarkand,also one brigade was stationed in Ustin Atush and one cavalry guard escadron in Kashgar. Sheng Shicai's provincial troops were defeated and routed by rebels in the fierce battle near city of Karashahr in July 1937,but eventually the uprising was quelled by Soviet troops (by the so-called Kyrgyz Brigade,about 5,000 troops,consisted of two tactical groups- Oshskaya and Narinskaya,each included 2 mountain regiments,one of Red Army and one of NKVD,reinforced by armoured vehicles,tank battalion (21 BT-7) and aviation;there were unconfirmed reports of the use of chemical weapons by these intervention forces against rebels),invited by Sheng Shicai to intervene in the August,1937.
In 1940,Muhammad Amin Bughra published the book Sharkiy Turkestan Tarihi (East Turkestan History) while in exile in Kashmir,which described the history of the region from ancient times to the present day and contained an analysis of the reasons for the loss of its independence in the middle of the eighteenth century. [5]
In 1940 Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang who were sent by Chiang Kai-shek,visited Afghanistan and contacted Bughra,they asked him to come to Chongqing,the capital of the Kuomintang regime. Bughra was arrested by the British in 1942 for spying for Japan and the Kuomintang arranged for Bughra's release. He and Isa Yusuf worked as editors of Kuomintang Muslim publications. Under the Zhang Zhizhong regime in Xinjiang,he was provincial commissioner. [6]
Muhammad Amin Bughra and fellow Pan-Turkic Jadidist Masud Sabri rejected the Soviet imposition of the name "Uyghur people" upon the Turkic people of Xinjiang. They wanted instead the name "Turkic ethnicity" (Tujue zu in Chinese) to be applied to their people. Masud Sabri also viewed the Hui people as Muslim Han Chinese and separate from his own people. [7] The names "Türk" or "Türki" in particular were demanded by Bughra as the real name for his people. He slammed Sheng Shicai for his designation of Turkic Muslims into different ethnicities which could sow disunion among Turkic Muslims. [8]
In 1948,Bughra's wife Amina was elected to the Legislative Yuan. In December the same year he was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as vice-chairman of the Sinkiang Government,led by Burhan Shahidi. He declared an alliance with the Chinese nationalists (Kuomintang) in order to gain autonomy for the Turkic people,under formal protection of the Republic of China and necessity of quelling all communist forces in Sinkiang,including the Soviet backed Second East Turkestan Republic.
There were 3 Effendis,(Üch Äpändi) (ئۈچئەپەندى) Aisa Alptekin,Memtimin Bughra (Muhammad Amin Bughra) and Masud Sabri. [9] [10] The Second East Turkestan Republic attacked them as Kuomintang "puppets". [11] [12]
Upon the approach of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to Sinkiang in September,1949,Muhammad Amin Bughra fled to India,then to Turkey,where he joined another exiled Uyghur leader,Isa Yusuf Alptekin.
In 1954,Muhammad Amin Bughra and Isa Yusuf Alptekin went to Taiwan to try to persuade the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China of dropping its claims to Xinjiang. Their demand was rejected and Taiwan affirmed that it claimed Xinjiang as "an integral part of China". [13]
Muhammad Amin Bughra died in exile in Turkey in 1965.[ citation needed ]
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The Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (TIRET) was an independent republic centered on the city of Kashgar,located in the far west of Xinjiang Province. It is often described as the First East Turkestan Republic to differentiate it from the Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1946).
The East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was a satellite state of the Soviet Union in northern Xinjiang that existed from 1944 to 1946. It is often described as the Second East Turkestan Republic to differentiate it from the First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934),but "second" was never a part of its official name.
Isa Yusuf Alptekin was a Uyghur politician who served in the Chinese Nationalist government and opposed both the First East Turkistan Republic and the Second East Turkestan Republic. When Xinjiang came under Chinese communist control in 1949,Alptekin went into exile and became an ultra-nationalist and pan-Turkic separatist.
Sabit Damolla was an East Turkestan independence movement leader who led the Hotan rebellion against the Xinjiang Province government of Jin Shuren and later the Uyghur leader Khoja Niyaz. He is widely known as the first and only prime minister of the short-lived Turkic Islamic Republic of East Turkestan from November 12,1933,until the republic's defeat in May 1934.
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Khoja Niyaz,also Khoja Niyaz Haji,was a Uyghur independence movement leader who led several rebellions in Xinjiang against the Kumul Khanate,the Chinese governor Jin Shuren and later the Hui warlord Ma Zhongying. He is best remembered as the first and only president of the short-lived Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan from November 1933 until the republic's defeat in April 1934.
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The Ili Rebellion was a separatist uprising by the Turkic peoples of northern Xinjiang against the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China,from 1944 to 1946. The Ili Rebellion began with the East Turkestan National Revolution,known in Chinese historiography as the Three Districts Revolution,which saw the establishment of the Second East Turkestan Republic. The leadership was dominated by Uyghurs but the population consisted mostly of Kazakhs.
Abdullah Bughra was a Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic. He was the younger brother of Muhammad Amin Bughra and older brother of Emir Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra. He commanded Uighur and Kirghiz forces during the Battle of Kashgar (1934) against the Chinese Muslim 36th Division. The Chinese Muslims were loyal to the Chinese government and wanted to crush the Turkic Muslim Uighurs and Kirghiz in revenge for the Kizil massacre. He also had Afghan bodyguards protecting him. He was killed in 1934 at Yarkand by Chinese Muslim troops under general Ma Zhancang. All of Abdullah's fighters were killed,but his body was never found,which later gave rise to speculations about his fate.
Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra was an Uighur Emir of the First East Turkestan Republic. He was the younger brother of Muhammad Amin Bughra and Abdullah Bughra. He commanded Uighur and Kirghiz forces during the Battle of Kashgar (1934) against the Chinese Muslim 36th Division. The Chinese Muslims were loyal to the Republic of China government and wanted to crush the Turkic Muslim Uighurs and Kirghiz in revenge for the Kizil massacre,in which Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra had taken part. He was killed on April 16,1934,at Yangi Hissar by Chinese Muslim troops under generals Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan. All of Nur Ahmad Jan's 2,500 Uighur and Kirghiz fighters were exterminated by the 10,000 strong Chinese Muslim army.
Yulbars Khan,courtesy name Jingfu (景福),was a Uyghur chieftain and Kuomintang general during the Chinese Civil War. He entered the service in the Kumul Khanate of Muhammad Khan of Kumul and later his son Maksud Shah. He served as an advisor at the court,until when Maksud died in March 1930,governor Jin Shuren abolished the khanate. Yulbars then conspired with Khoja Niyaz and Ma Zhongying to overthrow Jin in the Kumul Rebellion. According to some people,Ma restrained Yulbars from traveling to Nanking to ask the Kuomintang for help,Ma earlier had an agreement with the Kuomintang that if he seized Xinjiang,he would be recognized by the Kuomintang as its leader.
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Masud Sabri,also known as Masʿūd Ṣabrī,was an ethnic Uyghur politician of the Republic of China who served as the governor of Xinjiang during the Ili Rebellion. He received education at Kulja and Istanbul and was a Pan-Turkist. Chiang Kai-shek appointed him the first Uyghur governor of Xinjiang.
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