Committee for National Revolution

The Committee for National Revolution (Chinese: 民族革命委員會) was a Turkic Nationalist Uighur party which existed in 1932–1934. It helped found the First East Turkestan Republic. It was anti-Chinese, anti-Chinese Muslim, and anti-Communist.^[1] The leader of Karakash gold miners Ismail Khan Khoja, the Khotan Emir Muhammad Amin Bughra, his brothers Abdullah Bughra, Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, and Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki joined the committee. It had originally 300 members and 50 rifles. On February 20, 1933, it set up a provisional Khotan government with Sabit as prime minister and Muhammad Amin Bughra as head of the armed forces. It favored the establishment of an Islamic theocracy.^[2][3][4]

Committee for National Revolution
Leader	Sabit Damulla Abdulbaki
Founded	1932
Dissolved	1934
Headquarters	Kashgar, First East Turkestan Republic
Ideology	Jadidism Turkic nationalism Pan-Turkism Anti-communism Anti-Han sentiment Anti-Hui sentiment
Political position	Right-wing
Religion	Sunni Islam

See also

• List of Islamic political parties
• First East Turkestan Republic
• Second East Turkestan Republic
• Young Kashgar Party