Rebiya Kadeer's paternal grandparents were colonists who moved from Khotan (in the Tarim Basin) to Gulja (in Dzungharia). Her maternal grandparents were from Merket (also in the Tarim Basin) and moved to Gulja.
She says so in pages 6-7 of her book "Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China", but she doesn't mention where Gulja is or who the natives were.
Now the hypocrite Kadeer is claiming China is "colonizing" Xinjiang and saying that all non-Uyghurs in Xinjiang are colonists, while most off them live in Dzungharia.
Dzungharia's natives were the Dzunghar Mongols. Everyone who is not a Dzunghar, including both Uyghur, Han, Hui, Salar, Xibe, and Manchu, is a colonist and a migrant there.
Another lie in her book was claiming that Uyghurs were living in peace before they became part of China in the 1760s. The reality is that the Muslim Chagatai Khanate in the Tarim Basin was invaded by the Dzunghar Khanate and the Uyghurs were forced into vassalage by the Dzungar Mongol Buddhists.
Uyghur leaders like Emin Khoja joined China for protection against the Dzunghar Buddhists and China defeated the Dzunghar Khanate in 1758-1759. Then the Dzunghars were nearly wiped out, and the Uyghur Khojas, Khans and Begs joined China. Dzungharia was then opened to Uyghur and Han immigrantion.
China Marches West
Both Manchus, Han, Hui, Salar and Uyghurs paid in blood for Dzungharia and to overthrow the expansionist Dzunghars, but a minority of ultranationalist Uyghur separatists like Kadeer lie and claim Dzungharia is their native land.
Rebiya also claimed that Yakub Beg was a Uyghur hero (he was not a Uyghur, he came from modern day Uzbekistan), and admits her father took part in the Ili Rebellion on page 9 of her book and she admitted that the Uyghur separatists received Soviet support. In the Ili Rebellion, the Uyghur Ili rebels were Communists and backed by the Soviet Red Army and White Russians in Xinjiang. Their leader Ehmetjan Qasim (Ahmedjan Kassimi) was a Soviet Communist party member and an agent of Stalin.The Uyghur separatists received direct military support from the Soviets and weapons.
So in summary, her family were colonists in Dzungharia, Soviet agents, and now that the Soviet Union is gone, she seeks aid from America. She is a massive hypocrite
The Uyghur Ili Communists, including Rebiya Kadeer's father, committed mass murder against the Han people in Dzungharia with Soviet support and called for extermination of Han people since they were labeled as "reactionary".