Abdulkerim Abbas

Abdulkerim Abbas
Secretary General of the Xinjiang Provincial Coalition Government
In office 12 June 1946 – 27 August 1949
Personal details
Born	1921 Przhevalsk, Soviet Union
Died	27 August 1949 Soviet Union
Profession	Politician

Abdulkerim Abbas
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	阿不都克里木·阿巴索夫
Simplified Chinese	阿不都克里木•阿巴索夫
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ābùdūkèlǐmù•Ābāsuǒfū
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئابدۇكىرىم ئابباسوف
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Abdukirim Abbasof

Abdulkerim Abbas, also Abdul Kerim Abbas, Abdulkerim Abbasoff, 'Abd al-Karīm 'Abbās (1921 – August 27, 1949), was a Uyghur leader in Xinjiang, China during the 20th century. He helped lead the Ili Rebellion of 1944, which led to the founding of the Second East Turkestan Republic (ETR) in northern Xinjiang. Abbas, along with Ehmetjan Qasim, headed the Marxist faction within the ETR, which in 1946 set aside the rebellion's declaration of independence and joined the Nationalist Chinese in forming a coalition provincial government. Qasim and Abbas led the ETR in joining the Chinese Communists toward the end of the Chinese Civil War. They and several other senior leaders of the ETR perished in August 1949 in a plane crash while traveling en route to Beiping (Beijing) where they were invited to participate in the Chinese Communists' political consultative conference, which resulted in the founding of the People's Republic of China. Abbas is officially in hailed in the People's Republic of China as a revolutionary martyr.

Abdulkerim Abbas was born in 1921 in Przhevalsk, Soviet Union, now Karakol, Kyrgyzstan. His family was native to Artux in far western Xinjiang and in 1926 moved to Yining. Abbas attended primary school in Uqturpan (Wushi) in southern Xinjiang and then enrolled in the Xinjiang Province No. 1 Middle School in the provincial capital, Dihua (now Urumqi) in 1936. The school was one of the first modern multi-ethnic schools in the region. Abbas began to learn Chinese and joined an anti-imperialist society organized by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. In 1937, he met Saifuddin Azizi, who had returned from exile in the Soviet Union and gave him books on Marxism-Leninism. In August 1938, Abbas enrolled in the High School of the Xinjiang Academy and studied under political science teacher, Lin Jilu, who was a Chinese Communist. Liu tutored Abbas in Chinese and Mao Zedong's writings. Abbas also learned about the guerilla warfare tactics of the Chinese Red Army and the Long March. In 1939, he participated in the Xinjiang Academy Summer Tour Group to Ili, organized by Academy president Du Chongyuan, and toured his home region of western Xinjiang with Chinese Communist activists.

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