Ehmetjan Qasim

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Ehmetjan Qasimi
President of the Second Eastern Turkestan Republic
In office June 12, 1946 – August 27, 1949
Preceded by	Elihan Tore

Born	15 April 1914 Ghulja, Xinjiang
Died	27 August 1949 Moscow, Russia ?
Profession	Politician

Ehmetjan Qasim (15 April 1914-27 August 1949) (Uyghur:ئەخمەتجان قاسىم) (also transliterated as Ehmetjan Qasimi, Ahmetjan Khasim or Ahmetcan Kasim) was a Uyghur political leader of the Second East Turkestan Republic, which existed from November 12, 1944 to October 20, 1949 ( It collapsed just 19 days after People's Republic of China was proclaimed in Beijing on October 1, 1949).

Ehmetjan was born in Ghulja in 1914. He studied in East Socialist Laborers University, Moscow in 1936.

1 Death
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[edit] Death

On August 24, 1949 Ehmetjan, Abdulkerim Abbas, Ishaq Beg Munonov, Dalelkhan Sugirbayev, Rakhimjan Sabirhajiev, Luo Zhi and other top representatives ( total 11 men ) of Eastern Turkestan Republic boarded a plane in Almaty, the capital of the Kazakh SSR, headed for Beijing, being invited by Mao Zedong to participate in Beijing All- China Conference, which had to proclaim the establishment of People's Republic of China. Instead the plane landed in Moscow. On September 3, the Soviet Union informed the Chinese government that the plane had crashed near lake Baikal on route to Beijing, killing all on board. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, former KGB leaders revealed that five top ETR leaders were killed on Stalin's orders in Moscow in late August 1949, in accordance with a deal between Stalin and China's communist leader Mao Zedong^[1]

Not long before his death Ehmetjan Qasimi declared: " Sinkiang certainly should become Uyghurstan - it's a desire not only of uyghurs, but all the inhabitants and nationalities that live in Eastern Turkestan".