Washington, May 13 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) and the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) have called on the United States President Donald Trump to directly raise China’s “ongoing genocide” and “colonial occupation” of East Turkistan and Tibet during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.President Trump began his state visit to China on Wednesday for a high-stakes two-day summit, marking the first visit by a sitting US President to the …
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Washington, May 6 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) submitted a petition to the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation (C-24) requesting that the General Assembly designate China as the “occupying power” over East Turkistan. The 25-page petition, submitted jointly by the ETGE and the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) on Tuesday, states, “The era of colonialism has not ended. It is being legislated.” The petition seeks inscription of East Turkistan, also known…
Washington, April 14 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) strongly condemned the conviction of 19 Kazakh citizens, saying that they were punished for demanding the release of an ethnic Kazakh “illegally detained” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities described the region as the ancestral homeland of the Uyghurs and home to millions of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples. The statement came after a court in Ka…
Washington/Ottawa April 6 (IANS) Officials of the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) and members of the Uyghur community staged protests across the United States and Canada, calling for global accountability and urgent international action over what they described as China’s “ongoing genocide” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.These protests were held on Sunday in Washington and Edmonton, Canada, to mark the 36th anniversary of the 1990 …
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has called on the international community, including the United Nations, to take principled, coordinated action against what it described as Beijing’s ongoing “institutionalisation of a coercive security-and-control system” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities call the region “an occupied country” currently under China’s “colonial rule”. The E…