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Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples are being oppressed by the Chinese government in East Turkistan, according to a joint declaration by fifty UN members. According to the East Turkistan Government in Exile, the joint statement, which was released on Monday, represents the biggest number of governments to officially denounce China’s continued crimes in East Turkistan (ETGE).
Canada delivered the joint statement to UN members during a Third Committee meeting of the UN General Assembly dedicated to human rights.
According to ETGE, the UN member states issued an united statement in which they urged the Chinese government to carry out the recommendations of the OHCHR’s report on East Turkistan.
The statement stated, “This includes taking swift action to free all those unjustly detained in Xinjiang, to promptly ascertain the fate and locations of missing family members, and to promote safe contact and reunion.”
The US and the Parliaments of more than a dozen European nations have already deemed China’s continuing crimes in East Turkistan to be genocide, and the Uyghurs have hailed the UN’s joint declaration on East Turkistan and called for international action to stop genocide.
According to a study published on August 31, 2022 by the UN Human Rights Office, China’s atrocities in East Turkistan may constitute crimes against humanity.
China, as usual, exploited Cuba to forward a counter-statement. According to ETGE, 66 nations that support China, many of which have a majority of Muslims, blatantly endorsed the Chinese counter-statement.
The signatory countries “oppose the politicisation of human rights… and involvement in China’s domestic affairs under the pretence of human rights,” according to the counter-statement.
East Turkistan was invaded militarily by the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China on October 12, 1949.
A few months later, on December 22, 1949, the Chinese Communists destroyed the autonomous East Turkistan Republic, beginning China’s continuous colonialism and occupation of East Turkistan.
