Ehmetjan Qasim

Ehmetjan Qasim (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. He notably served as the vice chairman of the Coalition Government of Xinjiang Province.

Ehmetjan Qasim
ئەخمەتجان قاسىمى
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
Born15 April 1914
Ghulja, Xinjiang, China
Died27 August 1949(1949-08-27) (aged 35)
Kabansk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
ProfessionPolitician
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
Uyghurئەخمەتجان قاسىمى

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".

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