Yusupbek Mukhlisi (1920–2004) was a Uyghur

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and the leader of the

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(URFET). He lived in-exile with other former URFET members in Almaty,

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, after fleeing to the

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in 1960. Along with Taynutdin Basakov, Mukhlisi also led the Committee for East Turkestan until its dissolution around the late 1990s.

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East Turkestan independence activists Uyghur nationalists 1920 births 2004 deaths People granted political asylum in the Soviet Union Chinese emigrants to the Soviet Union {{Asia-mil-bio-stub