Committee for National Revolution

Committee for National Revolution
LeaderSabit Damulla Abdulbaki
Founded1932
Dissolved1934
HeadquartersKashgar, First East Turkestan Republic
IdeologyJadidism
Turkic nationalism
Pan-Turkism
Anti-communism
Sinophobia
Anti-Hui sentiment
Political positionRight-wing
ReligionSunni Islam

The Committee for National Revolution (Chinese: 民族革命委員會) was a Turkic Nationalist Uighur party which existed in 1932–1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic. It was anti-Chinese, anti-Chinese Muslim, and anti-Communist.[1] The leader of Karakash gold miners Ismail Khan Khoja, the Khotan Emir Muhammad Amin Bughra, his brothers Abdullah Bughra, Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, and Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki joined the committee. It had originally 300 members and 50 rifles. On February 20, 1933, it set up a provisional Khotan government with Sabit as prime minister and Muhammad Amin Bughra as head of the armed forces. It favored the establishment of an Islamic theocracy.[2][3][4]

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