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Ahmetjan Qasimi
Ahmetjan Qasimi was a Soviet-educated Uyghur leader of the Second East Turkestan Republic in the Ili region of Xinjiang. A secular leftist, he became its leading figure after Elihan Töre was removed in 1946 and served in the coalition government with the Nationalists. In August 1949 he died with other leaders in a plane crash on the way to talks in Beijing.
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