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…
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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 …
Beijing, March 13 (IANS) The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has expressed grave concern over China’s newly approved law on “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” adopted during the annual parliamentary session of the Chinese Communist Party, warning that it could intensify repression against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Southern Mongolians. The organisation cautioned that the legislation may further strengthen state control and assimilation policies targeting ethnic minorities in China.The organisa…
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…
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) The Chinese government’s exploitation of the Uyghur people has emerged as a major cause for concern worldwide. The large-scale suppression of the Uyghur minority, with people subjected to arbitrary incarceration, forced labour, and family separation in work camps constitute a horrific violation of human rights.The forced labour also poses an economic security challenge as it enables China to flood global markets with artificially cheap goods that undercut businesses in …
Dhaka, Feb 3 (IANS) For years, Beijing’s mouthpieces dismissed testimonies from minority groups across China, including Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tibetan survivors as fabrications, cast satellite images as misinterpretations, and labelled leaked documents as forgeries, while mocking the evidence as “Western propaganda”. That argument has collapsed, with the United Nations — an institution they once invoked as the ultimate neutral party — confirmed the central reality: “China’s labour t…