Muhammad Amin Bughra (2): The "Dream Boy"

With a scholar from Hotan, Muhammadin Bughra (front row in black on the right). 1933 Hotan.

The great figure in 20th century Uyghur history - Muhammad Amin Bughra - is still remembered in his heart for his lifelong struggle and his spiritual legacy to the future. Commenting on the life and personality of Muhammad Amin Bughra, Prof. Alimjan Inayat emphasizes that he is a multi-faceted figure, "a well-known politician, revolutionary, historian, poet, writer and public figure cultivated by our nation."

Mr. Hamidkhan Göktürk, former Secretary General of the East Turkestan Foundation, also wrote in his time that the late Muhammad Amin Bughra, a prominent religious scholar and teacher, one of the leaders and military commanders of the East Turkestan National Liberation Revolution of the 1930s, was the first historian to write a systematic work on the history of East Turkestan. East Turkestan is one of the leaders of the national struggle movement, "he said.

Muhammad Amin Bughra's writings on his own life do not contain much information and information about his childhood. However, in his book History of East Turkestan, in his memoir My Political Life, and in his 1952 book, History, Geography, and Current Situation in East Turkestan, he expresses deep sorrow over the fate of his homeland, reminiscent of his childhood. He mentions that he was looking for a ray of hope and that he was a "dream boy" who had taken up the "grief of the motherland" as a child.

"I have been saddened by the oppression and injustice perpetrated by the Chinese authorities on the people of East Turkestan since I was able to distinguish right and left, and my people are being abused," he said. As a result of this, I spent many nights waking up with insomnia and temptations. I was young, mentally retarded, inexperienced, and financially poor. I had no one to listen to my pain. In short, since I was 15 years old, my feelings of hatred for Chinese oppression, my grief for my nation and my homeland were deeply rooted in my heart. Driven by this feeling, the desire to study the history of my nation and to study the ancient and modern history of the nations of the world was growing stronger in my heart. Unfortunately, there were no people in my environment who would educate me in this field.

Indeed, the years of Muhammad Amin Bughra's birth were a time when the old world was slowly sinking, and the horizon of the new era was rising all over the world, especially in the Orient. Alimcan Inayet, a professor at the Turkish World Studies Institute at Ege University in Turkey, said: There was intense competition between them and rivalries over the sphere of influence. Internally, the Uighur people were suffering from secession and monarchy. For years, ignorance, dictatorial regimes, and secession have left the Uighur people severely depressed. "

Prof. Alimjan Inayet also wrote a book titled "The Five Realities of East Turkistan" with the memoirs of the "Six Letters of the Sixth City", which will be published in the "Asia-Pacific Letters" by Muhammad Amin Bugra and the social reality of East Turkestan in the first quarter of the 20th century. "Whether it was Abduqadir Damullam or Muhammad Amin Bughra, the Uyghur people were born in that era of social collapse," he said.

Mr. Abdullah Oguz is the grandson of the late Dr. Amin Bugra, the grandson of the late Dr. Yaqub Bugra. He is currently studying for a doctorate at Istanbul University's Turkish College. He recalls that more than 20 years before the birth of the late Muhammad Amin Bughra, the Manchu dynasty occupied East Turkestan and later established the "Xinjiang Province", resulting in the massacre and assimilation of the entire Uyghur people.

After the second occupation of East Turkestan by the Manchu dynasty, he ruled the whole of East Turkestan through the "Governor General" in Urumqi and the "Ili Jiangjun Court" in Ili, taking control of the southern provinces and counties in a more dictatorial way, He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture.

Mr. Abdullah Oguz argues that the people of East Turkestan, who have been suffering from the oppression of the people of East Turkestan since the time they knew Muhammad Amin Bughra, have been desperate, desperate and desperate to find a way out.

Mr. Abdushukur Muhammad, one of the Uyghur intellectuals in Sweden, also commented on the fact that Muhammad Amin Bughra was born in the years when the Manchu Empire was weakened, his reign in East Turkestan was coming to an end, and this "dream boy" who had a patriotic heart for the infant heart from an early age. "Eating."