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Uyghuristan, a mysterious land where Hungarians’ closest relatives live
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The homeland of Hungarians’ closest relatives the Uyghurs lies in Xinjiang Province, western-China. Despite China’s bloody oppression of the Uyghur ethnic group, Uyghur history still keeps its secrets.
The Uyghurs have ruled the wast land of Eastern Central Asia since thousands of years. From AD 745 until AD 840 their Empire extended from Manchuria to the Altai region. Their capital city was Ordu-Balik, meaning “city of the royal camp” located near Orkhon River.
About ten million ethnic Uyghurs still live in Xinjiang Province today; the fabulous history and culture of the Uyghur people astounded explorers throughout the ages.
According to Chinese records, the Uyghurs have been always known to be great healers; among others, they invented acupuncture. Shamanism is still alive in Uyghuristan, even though the belief system of the people is quite complex due to various historical circumstance.
Centuries before Gutenberg, Uyghurs had already been familiar with the printing press and they were well-versed in architecture, art and music. In Uyghuristan, most people could read and write even in ancient times. The legendary Silk Road led through the Uighur empire connecting the East with the West.
China closely controls the officially autonomous province of Xinjiang because the province is rich in minerals — oil, natural gas, coal, gold and so on. We frequently hear violent clashes taking place between Uyghurs fighting for independence and Chinese interior ministry troops; the Chinese media call these clashes “terrorist acts.”
Last year, the Hungarian government by abusing its powers deported Uyghur human rights activist Ümit Hamit from Hungary. (In Hungary everybody understands that the government acted on Chinese request). After returning to Hungary, Ümit Hamit simply stated the facts: Uyghurs and Hungarians are close relatives, the freedom loving people of Uyghuristan are brutally suppressed by China. Due to oppression, Uyghurs fall victim almost daily to the heavy-handed policies of the Chinese government.
One day we will get a freedom!
this is completely false. the hungarians’ closest relatives are the khanty and mansi of siberia. after that are other uralic-speaking people such as the finns, estonians, karelians, saami, samoyeds, and many siberian peoples. the uyghurs are turkic, a completely unrelated group of people who also just happen to originally come from an area south of the urals’ homeland
Are you also descendants of the ancient Sumerian civilisation over run by two waves Semites the Amorites and Akkadians from the West when you were in Ur?>
You left out the fact that they have been Muslim since the 10th century. This is the prominent reason China wsnts them out.