25 Facts About Mahmut Muhiti

Mahmut Muhiti, nicknamed Shizhang, was a Uyghur warrior from Xinjiang.

Mahmut Muhiti was a commander of the insurgents led by Khoja Niyaz during the Kumul Rebellion against the Xinjiang provincial authorities.

Mahmut Muhiti opposed Sheng's close ties with the Soviet Union forming opposition to his regime in Kashgar.

Mahmut Muhiti organised the Islamic rebellion against Sheng in 1937 and fled to British India.

Mahmut Muhiti was afterwards active in the Japanese-occupied China, fruitlessly cooperating with Japan in order to enhance the cooperation between Japan and Muslims, dying in Beijing.

Mahmut Muhiti was a third son in the family of Turpan merchants.

Packman's successor Thomson-Glover said that Mahmut Muhiti "was a simple and kindly man, and a zealous Mohammedan".

Mahmut Muhiti ran a cotton business with the Soviet Union and was a long time Jadidist.

Between 1933 and 1934 Mahmut Muhiti was the chief military commander of the Khoja Niyaz's forces.

Mahmut Muhiti supported the ceasefire agreement between Hoja-Niyaz and Sheng, which enabled him to hold a senior military post after the rebellion.

Mahmut Muhiti was accompanied by the 2,000 strong Uighurs commanded by Muhiti.

Mahmut Muhiti formed the new administration in Kashgar known as the National Assembly.

Mahmut Muhiti was demoted and retained the position of Divisional Commander.

Mahmut Muhiti was rendered with a force of 2,000 Turkic troops.

Mahmut Muhiti became known as Mahmut Shizhang, a Mandarin term for a division commander.

Mahmut Muhiti raised funds and founded a school in Qaziriq, his native village.

Mahmut Muhiti proposed Muhiti as future leader of the proposed puppet state.

Mahmut Muhiti became the focal point of the opposition to the Sheng's government.

Mahmut Muhiti, having entered into contact with the Soviet consul in Kashgar Smirnov, even tried to get weapons from the Soviet Union, but his appeal was rejected.

Mahmut Muhiti failed to do so, but succeeded in appointing a Chinese communist to the editorship of the New Life, thus neutralising it as the anti-government organ.

Mahmut Muhiti left for British India on April 2,1937, crossing into Ladakh and by-passing the Karakoram Pass by going up the Karakash River and to Aksai Chin and then following the road through Chang La arrived in Leh, where he turned up on 27 April.

Mahmut Muhiti went on pilgrimage to Mecca in January 1938.

Mahmut Muhiti gained the Japanese confidence for cooperation in early 1939.

Mahmut Muhiti planned to establish the Xinjiang Uyghur Society, seated in Tokyo with its branches all across Inner Asia.

Mahmut Muhiti died in the Japanese-occupied Beijing in 1944 from a brain hemorrhage, and is buried in a Muslim cemetery there.