Muhemmetimin Iminov
Muhemmetimin Iminov | |||||||||
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Muhemmetimin in 1950 | |||||||||
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| Born | August 1915 | ||||||||
| Died | 17 May 1970 (aged 54) | ||||||||
| Resting place | Ürümqi Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery | ||||||||
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| Children | Polat (son) | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 买买提伊敏·伊敏诺夫 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 買買提伊敏·伊敏諾夫 | ||||||||
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| Uyghur | مۇھەممەتئىمىن ئىمىنوف | ||||||||
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Muhemmetimin Iminov[a][b] (August 1915 – 17 May 1970) was a Chinese politician who held high-ranking positions in the local governments of Xinjiang.[1] An ethnic Uyghur from the far-western city of Artush, Muhemmetimin began his political career in the Xinjiang People's Anti-Imperialist Association, a pro-Soviet and anti-Kuomintang organisation.[1] He then became a prominent figure in the Second East Turkestan Republic, serving as a cavalry commander in the East Turkestan National Army and as a central executive committee member of the East Turkestan Revolutionary Party.[1][2][3] He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1950, following the incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China the previous year.[1] He later served as the Vice Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Deputy Commander of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region.
Muhemmetimin was denounced during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Campaign Against Local Nationalism as an "ethnic nationalist" and "counter revolutionary" of the late 1950s, despite the efforts of his friend and colleague, Xinjiang government chairman Seypidin Azizi.[4] He was purged during the Cultural Revolution and died on 17 May 1970; however, he was posthumously rehabilitated by the CCP in October 1986 and his remains were moved to the Ürümqi Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery.[1] He was survived by a son named Polat[5] and two daughters who fled to the Soviet Union in 1962.
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References
- ^ a b c d e 新疆民族辞典 [Dictionary of Xinjiang Nationalities] (in Chinese). Xinjiang People's Press. 1995. ISBN 978-7-228-03623-3. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ Wang, Ke (2020). The East Turkestan Independence Movement, 1930s to 1940s. Translated by Fletcher, Carissa. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-962-996-769-7. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ Freeman, Joshua L. (2019). Print and Power in the Communist Borderlands: The Rise of Uyghur National Culture (PhD thesis). Harvard University. p. 228. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
- ^ Freeman 2019, p. 279.
- ^ Evans, Michael P. (July 2017). A Nearly Perfect Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Eastern Turkistan People's Revolutionary Party (PhD thesis). p. 23. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
External links
- Media related to Muhemmetimin Iminov at Wikimedia Commons