Ehmetjan Qasim | |
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ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the East Turkestan Republic | |
In office November 1944 – 27 June 1946 | |
Vice Chairman of the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province | |
In office 27 June 1946 – 12 August 1947 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 April 1914 Ghulja, Xinjiang, China |
Died | 27 August 1949 Kabansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 35)
Profession | Politician |
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Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 阿合買提江·哈斯木 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 阿合买提江·哈斯木 | ||||||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||||||
Uyghur | ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى | ||||||||||
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Ehmetjan Qasim[note 1] (Uyghur: ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى; April 15, 1914 – August 27, 1949) was a Uyghur revolutionary and statesman who held several important positions in the governments of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the Republic of China's Xinjiang Province.[1][2][3][4][5] He notably served as the vice chairman of the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province.[6]
Qasim was born in Ghulja 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 the Soviet Union. Qasim was described as "Stalin's man" and as a "communist-minded progressive".[7]
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