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Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International regularly express concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in East Turkistan. However, due to the Chinese authorities' tight controls on information, accurate and timely analysis of developments in East Turkistan is extremely difficult.
Human rights activists agree that without critical support from Uyghur-run human rights organizations, very little information from within East Turkistan will emerge.
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THIRTY years have passed since the reformist Communist Party general secretary Hu Yaobang - probably the most important mentor of current party boss Hu Jintao - climbed to the roof of the Dalai Lama's Potala Palace, looked out at the lavish government buildings in the poverty-stricken capital of Lhasa and resolved to turn his government's hardline policies upside down. 
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