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Ehmetjan Qasimi

Ehmetjan Qasimi
Ахмаджан Касыми1.jpg
2nd President of the Second East Turkistan Republic
In office
12 June 1946 – 27 August 1949
Preceded by Elihan Tore
Personal details
Born 15 April 1914
Yining, Xinjiang, China
Died 27 August 1949
Soviet Union
Profession Politician
Ehmetjan Qasim
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 阿合買提江·哈斯木
Simplified Chinese 阿合买提江·哈斯木
Uyghur name
Uyghur
ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى

Ehmetjan Qasimi (ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى) (احمد جان قاسمي) (15 April 1914–27 August 1949) was a Uyghur political leader in East Turkistan (Xinjiang) province of the Republic of China.

Ehmetjan was born in Ghulja (Yining in Chinese) in 1914. He studied at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, Moscow in 1936 and was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union. Ehmetjan was described as "Stalin's man" and as a "communist-minded progressive". Qasim Russified his surname to "Kasimov" and became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

He was a member of the governing council of the Second East Turkestan Republic, a Soviet-backed administration founded in three northwestern districts of Xinjiang during the Ili Rebellion in November 1944. Qasimi himself was not involved with the planning of the rebellion. The Second ETR was initially led by Elihan Tore, who favored forming a conservative Islamic government. Tore was placed under house arrest in the Soviet Union in 1946, under the orders of Stalin. Qasimi was a leader of the pro-Soviet East Turkistan Turkic People's National Liberation Committee (ETTPNLC).

In June 1946, Qasimi tried to reach a political agreement with the Nationalist Chinese leader Zhang Zhizhong to form a coalition provincial government in Dihua (present day Urumqi). The Second ETR was to be disbanded in name but the three districts retained autonomy. As a president of the ETR, Qasimi called for unity and support for his government and rejected the coalition provincial government. He explained that the people of East Turkistan had risen in rebellion only to secure their rights under the Chinese constitution. He led a delegation to the Chinese National Assembly Nanjing to negotiate bi-lateral relations between ETR and the Republic of China.


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