It was formed from a merger between the Han Chinese-majority Communist League of Xinjiang and the Uyghur-majority East Turkestan Revolutionary Party.
The Chinese Communist Party, after multiple meetings with the latter organization's leader Abdulkerim Abbas, recommended the merger.
[1][2][3] Its chairman was Abdulkerim Abbas, and its vice chairmen were Asgat Iskhakov and Li Taiyu.
[a] The party published a newspaper called Democratic News.
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