{"id":4030,"date":"2018-03-10T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/03\/10\/mandatory-name-change-campaign-reflects-sharpening-assimilation-policy-against-uighurs\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:24:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T19:24:56","slug":"mandatory-name-change-campaign-reflects-sharpening-assimilation-policy-against-uighurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/mandatory-name-change-campaign-reflects-sharpening-assimilation-policy-against-uighurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory name change campaign reflects the sharpening of assimilation policy against Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Guo Cheng and Rizwangul&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.008px;\">Tursun Baqi, the Deputy Party Secretary and Director of the Bureau of Bazhou Quality Supervision Bureau, the First Secretary of the Community and the Working group Leader in Gul Kowruk, Qiemo (Cherchen) Town, Qiemo County took an oath to change his name officially, in front of national flag and 578 communist party cadres and community members declaring:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cfrom now on, I officially use a new name \u201cBahongwei\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.008px;\">February 26, Monday. At the flag raising event in Gul Kowruk, Qiemo (Cherchen)Town, Qiemo County, Tursun Baqi, the Deputy Party Secretary and Director of the Bureau of Bazhou Quality Supervision Bureau, the First Secretary of the Community and the Working group Leader, presided over the flag raising ceremony.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;In front of the solemn national flag, facing the cadres of Bazhou who became \u201cethnic unity relatives\u201d with local people &nbsp;and the people of all ethnic groups in the area, he solemnly swore:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy former name was Tursun Baqi, my friends from inland China used to call me Baqi, faced with the national flag, under the supervision of the residents of all ethnic groups, I take the oath of using a new name. From now on, I officially use the new name of &#8216;Bai Hongw<span style=\"font-size: 13.008px;\">ei&#8217;!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/08f22469be0b1.jpg\" style=\"width: 580px; height: 359px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the beginning of 2017, Ba Hongwei took the initiative to register and came to the community of Gul Kowruk and participated the \u201cvisiting people and benefiting people and gathering with people \u201d movement and served as the first party secretary of the community and the leader of the work group.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more than a year, he has been depicting a new picture of &#8220;Beautiful Community&#8221; in the new era, leading the group of nine people with a persistent, persevering, and hard work spirit.He supplemented shortcomings strengthened the foundations, eliminated the cracks and tightly held iron hoops, and implemented a number of effective measures to promote stability and development in the community.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his work, Ba Hongwei adhered to the principle of strengthening political solidarity as the first requirement for party members and cadres, and successively carried out a campaign of \u201cclarify the party member identity and clarify the ideology ,establish an image of service \u201c,\u201dThe voice of thanking &nbsp;the party sounds from Gul Kowruk community and Took the lead in sounding swords, indicating attitudes, motivating and guiding Party members and cadres and residents of all ethnic groups to respond actively.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cXinjiang is China&#8217;s anti-terrorism, anti-infiltration and anti-secession frontier and the main battlefield. The fight between separatism and anti-separatism is a long-term, complex, acute, and sometimes even fierce battle. There is a Chinese saying &#8220;Sturdy grass withstands high winds; true gold stands the test of fire\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Faced with a special political test, would we raise a flag and take charge before the attack, or follow the flow of people and wait in silence? This is a political test that every cadre must write. It is a touchstone to test whether our political skills, national emotion, the standard of truth, moral integrity math or not our accountability in all works\u201d, said Bahongwei.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to guide the residents and increase their sense of gratitude awareness for the party and create a good atmosphere of patriotism education, Ba Hongwei directed &nbsp;production of more than 100 pieces of exhibition boards on the basis of using the flip charts of regional party propaganda departments political slogans of \u201c love the motherland ,thank the party ,listen to the party and follow the party ,Highlighting patriotism, the party&#8217;s glorious history, the 90th anniversary of the founding of the military, and the development goals of Cherchen (qiemou)county and the workgroups&#8217;s implementation of the \u201ceight tasks\u201d, etc. established patriotism education bases in the community and &nbsp;normalised the political &nbsp;education &nbsp;for the residents .<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a Uyghur cadre who has been educated by the party for many years and as a party member for 27 years, Ba Hongwei always believed that without the Chinese Communist Party and the great motherland, there would be no today\u2019s development and prosperity for Uyghur people and there would be no happy life for Uyghur people. Not even my personal growth and progress. In the face of the test of struggle against separatism, Uighur cadres must never forget their own \u201croots\u201d and \u201csouls,\u201d that is, to stand firmly on the party\u2019s position, stand firmly on the people\u2019s position, and fight resolutely against \u201cthree evil forces\u201d and \u201ctwo-faced people\u201d and keep the character of &#8220;Vanguard Warrior&#8221; forever.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the continuous promotion of the introduction of new names for newborns and the use of new-period terminology campaign, ethnic minority residents in the Gul Kowruk community named their newborns in their own family with new terms that are consistent with the characteristics of the new era. This campaign reflects the eager pursuit of advocating a new era and advocating new ideas.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the report titled &nbsp;\u201cThe report on using new names in the new era \u201c which &nbsp;he submitted to the Party Committee Organizational Department of the Korla prefecture, Ba Hongwei wrote with affection: &#8220;as a leading cadre of the Party, who have been educated by the party ,and the first party secretary of the grass-roots community, I am determined to take the initiative to stand up.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">With my own practical actions and political positions, political attitudes and political positions, I use the new name that meets the requirements of the new era to take the lead in setting standards, educating and influencing the residents around us to use new names that are consistent with the characteristics of the new era\u2026&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The oath of Bahangwei followed by a good round of applause of 578 people .\u201dSecretary Ba, Secretary Ba, we support you \u201cpeople shouted.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A retired old cadre in the village named Tursun Abduweli said:\u201cwe all support the secretary bahongwei\u2019s name change behavior, a few days ago, my grandson in the first grade discussed with his father to change his name to Fu Quan, all family members supported him as well\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party branch secretary of the community Wu Ya Guang said :<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is admirable that he had changed his name, which he has been called for several decades, to \u201cBahongwei \u201c , a name with the meaning of clear-cut era. In the future, we will guide the residents and all the cadres of our community to learn from Comrade &nbsp;Ba Hongwei. He is our role Model.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy first identity is being a Communist Party member .my first responsibility is to work for the Party. My first goal is to lead the people of all ethnic groups to a happy life. I will continue to firmly establish &#8216;four consciousnesses&#8217; and resolutely regard the overall goal as the framework of my all work. I measure conscientiously the effectiveness of all work, based on the results of social stability and anti-separatist struggle, harmony, stability, and unity.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I spare no effort to ensure the stability and I connect the masses to the party with all my heart.I will &nbsp;interpret my loyalty to the party and &nbsp;people by my words and deeds.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the face of everyone&#8217;s approval, Ba Hongwei said firmly.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original report was written by Guo Cheng (Chinese) and Rizwangul (Uighur) \uff0cTranslated by Uighurian from Chinese in to English.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was deleted on February 27,immediately after it was &nbsp;published by Qiemou ling gong li \u300awechat public platform\u300b and daily news in Chinese on February 26.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This campaign caused a Chaos among the Uighurs lives abroad.Most critics say it\u2019s a &nbsp;sign that China is openly imposing it\u2019s Han Chinese racist policy of wiping out the entire &nbsp;Uighur people and is accelerating the speed of compulsory assimilation of Uighur people into majority Han Chinese.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Guo Cheng and Rizwangul&nbsp; &nbsp; Tursun Baqi, the Deputy Party Secretary and Director of the Bureau of Bazhou Quality Supervision Bureau, the First Secretary of the Community and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}