Early life Abdukerim Abbasov was born in 1921 in Przhevalsk,
Soviet Union, now
Karakol,
Kyrgyzstan. His family's
ancestral home is
Artush in the far west of Xinjiang, and in 1926 they moved to Ghulja (
Yining). The school was one of the first modern multiethnic schools in the region. Liu tutored Abdukerim in Chinese and
Mao Zedong's writings. In 1939, he participated in the Xinjiang Academy Summer Tour Group to Ili, organized by the academy's president Du Chongyuan, and toured his home region with Chinese communists. To evade government surveillance, Abdukerim relocated to
Korgas where he received assistance and materiel from the Soviet Union. Sheng's recall left a power vacuum and several rebellions sprang out in northern Xinjiang. In October 1944, Abdukerim returned to Ghulja with a guerilla force and, on 7 November 1944, launched the
Ili Rebellion. Chinese Nationalist troops sent to retake the bridge were ambushed and the city was effectively cut off from Chinese Nationalist reinforcements. The revolution drew support from
Islamists,
Pan-Turkic nationalists, and Marxists, and spread to
Ili,
Tarbaghatay (Tacheng) and
Ashan (Altay). On 8 April 1945, the various guerilla and partisan units of the revolution were organized into the
East Turkestan National Army (ETNA) and Abdukerim became its political director. and
Wensu on 6 September. Abdukerim surrounded Aksu the on 7 September, but Chinese Nationalist defenders led by Zhao Hanqi fought back fiercely and broke the siege on 13 September. In mid-September, Abdukerim resumed the siege with reinforcements from the Soviet advisor Nasyrov and Tore's son, In February 1946, they reached a peace accord. He explained that the
Communist League of Xinjiang had 15,000 members and its leadership had sought to join the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union but did not receive permission to do so. Abdukerim became the chair of the DRP's central committee. The coalition government with the Chinese nationalists subsequently broke down, leading to the reformation of the Ili District Council to the Three Districts Economic Commission. Deng met with Abdukerim and Ehmetjan and conveyed Mao's invitation to the political consultative conference in
Beiping (Beijing), which the ETR leaders accepted. This delegation flew from Ghulja to
Chita and then reached Beiping on 15 September by train via
Manzhouli and
Shenyang. ==Personal life==