OPINION_ He was a world-famous Uighur academic, but China sentenced him to death anyway

WASHINGTON EXAMINER

He was a world-famous Uighur academic, but China sentenced him to death anyway


by Eugene Chudnovsky | October 14, 2019 03:39 PM


Tashpolat Tiyip, president of Xinjiang University and one of China’s best-known geographers, was last seen at a Beijing airport in spring 2017 on his way to the opening of a research center in Germany. On that day he disappeared without a trace. A few months later, his wife Venira of 37 years, a college professor, learned that Tiyip was kidnapped by Chinese security forces and secretly tried as a “two-faced” Uighur separatist who has “poisoned the minds” of his students. He was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve that expires about now. Over a thousand geographers from 50 countries signed a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping asking him to halt the execution.

Tiyip was born in the Xinjiang Uighur region of China, attended a school, and worked as a tractor driver before enrolling in the geography program at Xinjiang University. Upon graduation he worked as an instructor for five years and then entered a doctoral program at the University of Tokyo, where he earned Ph.D. in applied geography. In 1993 he returned to his alma mater, became chairman of the geography department, and eventually rose to become university president in 2010.

Tiyip’s work on satellite sensing of ecosystems brought him international prominence. A charismatic leader with powerful intellect and enormous energy, and fluent in a number of foreign languages, he built close ties with numerous universities throughout the world. His students and colleagues were stunned by the news of his arrest and death sentence. According to them, Tiyip has never shown any disloyalty toward China.

Many believe that he became a victim of his high visibility at the time when China wanted to erase any reference to Uighur culture. A Uighur rising from a tractor driver to the Doctor Honoris Causa of Sorbonne in Paris was more than the government could swallow. He shared the fate of hundreds of Uighur intellectuals that disappeared in recent years.

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