The Story Of Cruel Occupation Of Muslim siberia By Russia And The Genocide Of Indigenous Muslim Siberian People By Tsar Russia And Communist Socialist Soviet union

The Story Of Cruel Occupation Of Muslim siberia By Russia And The Genocide Of Indigenous Muslim Siberian People By Tsar Russia And Communist Socialist Soviet union

Compiled By Dr Ahead Hassan alias Zeeshan Karim
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With an area of 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), Siberia accounts for 77% of Russia's land area, but it is home to just 40 million people – 27% of the country's population.
The predominant religious group is the Russian Orthodox Church.initially Islam was predominant before Russia occupation.
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Siberian Tatars (Siberian Tatar: Сыбырлар) refers to the indigenous Siberian population of the forests and steppes of South Siberia . The Siberian Tatars call themselves Yerle Qalyq, or "older inhabitants," to distinguish themselves from more recent Volga Tatar immigrants to the region.
Today approximately 10 percent of the population of Siberia is made up of native peoples.
According to the 2002 census, there are 500,000 Tatars in Siberia, but only 9,611 of them are indigenous Siberian Tatars while they were 200000-300000 at time of Russia occupation.  At least 400,000 are ethnic Volga Tatars, who settled in Siberia during periods of colonization.
In 1483, Muscovite warriors went on a military campaign to the Urals, and in 1555, the Khanate of Sibir, an ethnically diverse Muslim state made up of indigenous Siberian tribes, became a vassal of the Russian tsar. However, in 1563, a new leader, Kuchum, became khan and reasserted the independence of the Khanate.
The first full-fledged Russian colonization expedition to Siberia was Cossack Yermak's campaign against Kuchum in 1581. But it was too late for Kuchum khan to stop the colonization of Siberia.
New Russian expeditions built forts in Siberia, which later evolved into large cities. In 1586, the city of Tyumen (current population 720,000) was founded; in 1604 — Tomsk (population: 570,000) and in 1628 — Krasnoyarsk, home to more than one million people today.
Experts believe that before the arrival of the Russians, 240,000-300,000 indigenous people lived in Siberia on a territory of 5 million square miles.
Like native groups in other parts of the world, the indigenous people of Siberia were vulnerable to diseases brought by Russian explorers. "The new illnesses weakened and demoralized the indigenous population," historian John Richards wrote. "They destroyed 80 percent of the Tungusic people and 44 percent of the Yukaghir people."
The conquest of Siberia also resulted in the spread of diseases. Historian John F. Richards wrote: "... it is doubtful that the total early modern Siberian population exceeded 300,000 persons. ... New diseases weakened and demoralized the indigenous peoples of Siberia. The worst of these was smallpox "because of its swift spread, the high death rates, and the permanent disfigurement of survivors." ... In the 1650s, it moved east of the Yenisey, where it carried away up to 80 percent of the Tungus and Yakut populations. In the 1690s, smallpox epidemics reduced Yukagir numbers by an estimated 44 percent. The disease moved rapidly from group to group across Siberia.
At the hands of people such as Vasilii Poyarkov in 1645 and Yerofei Khabarov in 1650 some peoples, including the Daur, were slaughtered by the Russians. 8,000 out of a previously population of 20,000 in Kamchatka remained after being subjected to half a century of Cossacks slaughter.
In the Lena basin, 70% of the Yakut population died within 40 years, and rape and enslavement were used against native women and children in order to force the natives to pay the Yasak.
After the Russians tried to force the natives to convert to Christianity, the different native peoples like the Koraks, Chukchis, Itelmens, and Yukagirs all united to drive the Russians out of their land in the 1740s, culminating in the assault on Nizhnekamchatsk fort in 1746.
Kamchatka today is European in demographics and culture with only 2.5% of it being native, around 10,000 from a previous number of 150,000, due to the mass slaughters by the Cossacks after its annexation in 1697 of the Itelmen and Koryaks throughout the first decades of Russian rule. The killings by the Russian Cossacks devastated the native peoples of Kamchatka.[17] In addition to committing genocide the Cossacks also devastated the wildlife by slaughtering massive amounts of animals for fur.[18] 90% of the Kamchadals and half of the Vogules were killed from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and the rapid genocide of the indigenous population led to entire ethnic groups being entirely wiped out, with around 12 exterminated groups which could be named by Nikolai Iadrintsev as of 1882. Much of the slaughter was brought on by the fur trade.
The Aleuts in the Aleutians were subjected to genocide and slavery by the Russians for the first 20 years of Russian rule, with the Aleut women and children captured by the Russians and Aleut men slaughtered.[20]
The regionalist oblastniki in the 19th century among the Russians in Siberia acknowledged that the natives were subjected to immense genocidal cruelty by the Russian colonization, and claimed that they would rectify the situation with their proposed regionalist polices.[21] The Russians used "slaughter, alcoholism and disease" to bring the natives under their control, who were soon left in misery, and much of the evidence of their extermination has itself been destroyed by the Russians, with only a few artefacts documenting their presence remaining in Russian museums and collections.[
The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia and its cities except in the Republic of Tuva, with the Slavic Russians making up the majority in the Buriat Republic, and Altai Republics, outnumbering the Buriat, and Altai natives. The Buriat make up only 29,51% of their own Republic, and the Altai only one-third; the Chukchi, Evenk, Khanti, Mansi, and Nenets are outnumbered by non-natives by 90% of the population. The natives were targeted by the tsars and Soviet policies to change their way of life, and ethnic Russians were given the natives' reindeer herds and wild game which were confiscated by the tsars and Soviets. The reindeer herds have been mismanaged to the point of extinction.[24]
After the conquest of the Siberian Khanate (1598) the whole of northern Asia - an area much larger than the old khanate - became known as Siberia and by 1640 the eastern borders of Russia had expanded more than several million square kilometres.  Some 230,000 Russians had settled in Siberia by 1709.[13] Siberia was a destination for sending exiles.
Around seven million people moved to Siberia from European Russia between 1801 and 1914.
As of yet, the Siberian Tatars do not have public education available in the Siberian Tatar language. In local schools the lessons are taught only in Russian and Volga Tatar languages. Neither are indigenous to the area and were brought more than two centuries ago by the ethnic Russian and Volga Tatar settlers.
The term Siberian Tatar covers three autochthonous groups, all Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi madhab, found in southern Siberia. They are remnants of the Khanate of Sibir, which was conquered by Russia in 1582.
During the Communist era, many of the mosques in the towns and villages of Siberia were either destroyed by the regime or converted into such things as dance halls or offices. But with the end of the Communist era, many have been restored to the Muslims, who in turn, began the task of repairing and restoring them, to the extent that many of them are now filled to capacity with worshippers.
According to semi-official Soviet estimates, which were not made public until after the fall of the Soviet government, from 1929 to 1953 more than 14 million people passed through Gulag penal Labour  camps and prisons, many of which were in Siberia. Another 7 to 8 million people were internally deported to remote areas of the Soviet Union (including entire nationalities or ethnicities in several cases).[19]
516,841 prisoners died in camps from 1941 to 1943[20] due to food shortages caused by World War II. At other periods, mortality was comparatively lower.[21] The size, scope, and scale of the GULAG slave labour camps remains a subject of much research and debate.
However, when the Assistant Secretary-General of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL), Sheikh Muhammad Nasser Al-Abboudy, visited the region not long ago, he noted that there were not enough Islamic schools or Islamic cultural centers, and there are neither Islamic newspapers nor magazines for the Muslims to read and know more about their faith and their brethren in other parts of the world. He added that the fact that despite the lack of all these essential component, the Muslims in the region still stick tenaciously to their faith, adding that this was clear indication of how deeply ingrained Islam is in their minds.
The Soviet authorities treated Tatar Islam almost as cruelly as they treated Russian Orthodoxy. The overwhelming majority of mosques were destroyed: before 1917, there were more than 15,000 in what is now Russia; by 1956, only 94 remained.8The system of religious education was destroyed, and thousands of Islamic clergy (mullahs) were purged. For the assimilated Tatars, surrounded by Slavs on all sides, Islam almost ceased to be a regulator of social relations.
Even after the fall of Soviet Union, there are still many Muslim states, which have been illegally annexed into Russia. Chechnya is one of them. Ingushetia, Kergyzia, Ossetia, Turkamania and many other states in Siberia are all Muslim states which have been annexed into Russian Federation against the will of the people of these lands.
The region’s Muslims, despite their poverty and the harsh conditions under which they are living, continue to maintain their Islamic character and identity, and pray toward the Qibla (Ka’aba) five times a day, come rain come shine. There are times when the wintry conditions are so harsh, and the temperature goes as low as 61 degrees below zero.
The persecution of Muslims continues in the Urals and Siberia. The mosques are destroyed, such as the “Nur Islam” Mosque which was completely destroyed in Novy Urengoy, Siberia. The Imam of the mosque, Sheikh Isomitdin Akbarov was brutally murdered. On the walls of the “Altyn” Mosque in the Sverdlovsk region a text, “Russia is for the Russian people!” was written.

References:
http://russia-insider.com/en/history/how-siberia-became-part-russia/ri17257
http://www.khilafah.com/the-kremlin-continues-its-war-against-islam-in-russia/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia
Russia's Expansionist Policies I. The Conquest of Siberia". Falcon.fsc.edu. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
 The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements. Lynne Viola (2007). Oxford University Press US. p.3. ISBN 0-19-518769-5
^ Robert Conquest in "Victims of Stalinism: A Comment," Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 49, No. 7 (Nov. 1997), pp. 1317–1319 states: "We are all inclined to accept the Zemskov totals (even if not as complete) with their 14 million intake to Gulag 'camps' alone, to which must be added 4–5 million going to Gulag 'colonies', to say nothing of the 3.5 million already in, or sent to, 'labour settlements'. However taken, these are surely 'high' figures."
^ Zemskov, "Gulag," Sociologičeskije issledovanija, 1991, No. 6, pp. 14–15.
^ Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer. Livre noir du Communisme: crimes, terreur, répression. Harvard University Press, 1999. p. 206. ISBN 0-674-07608-7
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Tatars
http://www.muslimpopulation.com/Europe/RUSSIA/Russia Dawn of Islam in Siberia.php
http://carnegie.ru/2015/05/13/islamic-challenges-to-russia-from-caucasus-to-volga-and-urals-pub-60334
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.com/muslims-holocaust-and-genocide-remembrance-day/
 Source: Anna Gruzdeva

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