🗞 The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) and the @ETParliament in Exile announces the successful completion of the 9th East Turkistan General Assembly. This momentous event took place from November 10-12 in the Washington Capital Region in the USA. east-turkistan.net/historic-…

📰ETGE Condemns Death Sentences Against Two Uyghurs in Bangkok Case Built on Torture and Chinese Pressure WASHINGTON, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) condemns the death sentences handed down today by the Bangkok South Criminal Court against two Uyghur men, Bilal Mohammed and Yusuf Mirali, convicted through torture and a discredited process for the August 17, 2015 Erawan Shrine bombing. The ETGE calls on the Government of Thailand to halt the executions and overturn the convictions. The ETGE holds that the verdict rests on confessions extracted under torture, and that the case cannot be separated from China's campaign of transnational repression against the Uyghur people. The ETGE condemns the bombing itself, which killed 20 people and injured more than 120, most of them tourists and worshippers. Condemning this atrocity and demanding a fair process for the two accused are not in conflict; both are demands of justice. The prosecution relied on confessions the men say were beaten out of them and on purported evidence produced by the same investigation. Both recanted upon reaching the civilian court, testifying they had been tortured by Thai authorities and by individuals who appeared to be Chinese. One month before the bombing, Thailand forcibly deported 109 Uyghur asylum-seekers to China under Beijing's pressure, after which China paraded the illegally refouled Uyghurs as "terrorists." The convictions serve that same Chinese propaganda narrative: that Uyghurs are "terrorists," a false pretext Beijing uses to justify genocide and crimes against humanity. Bilal Mohammed testified he was beaten and forced to wear a wig, glasses, and a yellow shirt so he could be photographed to match the bomber on surveillance footage. He testified he had entered Thailand days after the bombing as a smuggling victim, and that the materials police claimed to find in the apartment the smugglers brought him to were planted or belonged to those smugglers. His lawyers noted his frame did not match the man in the footage. The trial ran nearly eleven years. The judges ruled there was no evidence of torture; the ETGE rejects that finding. The International Commission of Jurists (@ICJ_org) called the proceedings so flawed the men should never have been convicted, and in 2023 the International Federation for Human Rights (@fidh_en) petitioned the UN over the arrests' lack of legal basis. No group ever claimed responsibility, and a third defendant was acquitted in 2024 for lack of evidence. After the verdict, Mirali shouted that he was innocent, that he mourned for Thailand, and asked the Thai people to help him. "Our people's struggle is lawful and has nothing to do with terrorism. These two men were convicted on a costume forced onto one of them and a confession beaten out of them and recanted, by an investigation respected jurists call unfit to support any conviction," said @SalihHudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the ETGE. "They were convenient scapegoats: stateless, voiceless, and Uyghur." The ETGE calls on @UNHumanRights, democratic governments, and international organizations to pressure the Government of Thailand to halt the executions and overturn the convictions. The ETGE also calls on the international community to act against Beijing's transnational repression of Uyghurs. @ThaiEmbDC @USEmbassyBKK

📰As Trade Forum Launders Ongoing Genocide, ETGE Urges Global Action to End China’s Colonial Occupation of East Turkistan WASHINGTON, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) condemns the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, which Beijing calls “Xinjiang,” meaning “New Territory,” and its coordinated effort to launder these crimes through staged trade forums and complicit international media. Now in its thirteenth year, this genocide is not receding; the Party’s own leadership has just declared its permanence. This week’s International Conference for Trans-Altai Subregional Cooperation, held in occupied East Turkistan, does not stand alone. Days earlier, Wang Huning, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief ideologue and fourth-ranking official, toured East Turkistan and ordered “regular counterterrorist efforts,” forced assimilation as the “central task,” and intensified industrial exploitation, with particular emphasis on southern East Turkistan. The forum is the marketing arm of the doctrine the CCP set: the same colonial extraction, now sold to foreign delegations as “development.” That doctrine is not new. In top-secret CCP Central Committee Document No. 7 of 1996, the Politburo Standing Committee designated the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples’ faith and identity as the principal threat to be eliminated. The same document ordered the state to develop southern East Turkistan, expand the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and push cotton and petroleum production, the very industries on display at this forum. In the Party’s own classified words, development and repression are one and the same. The ETGE rejects the claim, now circulating in international coverage, that mass detention was a “response to attacks.” Satellite analysis documents that construction of hundreds of detention facilities began as early as 2009, with the majority built between 2010 and early 2014, before China launched its “Strike Hard Against Violent Terrorism” campaign in May 2014. The apparatus of mass detention was built before the events invoked to justify it. The pretext was manufactured to fit a genocidal policy already in motion. “The plan was set first, and the pretext was manufactured to fit it,” said @SalihHudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “Genocide was the intent, and repression was always the policy. Every foreign delegation that lends its presence to these forums lends its name to the crime.” A recent Financial Times (@FT) exposé confirms that mass internment, enslavement, and genocide remain ongoing and have entered a new phase, with Beijing expanding internment through prisons and slave labor through labor transfer programs that obscure forced labor-linked supply chains, while children remain separated from families at increasingly young ages and Uyghur culture and identity are erased. The ETGE further condemns the role of international media in laundering these crimes. The Associated Press (@AP) describes East Turkistan as “a region once marked by detention centers,” echoing Beijing’s framing that the atrocity is past, even as its own reporting confirms the camps were converted into prisons and that forced labor is widespread. When outlets present an ongoing genocide in the past tense, they whitewash a crime in progress. “The exploitation of our land, resources, and people, our coal, oil, gas, cotton, and critical minerals, extracted on the backs of an enslaved Uyghur workforce, is not development. It is colonial plunder,” said Dr. @MamtiminAla, President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. The international community must stop addressing the symptoms and address the root: China’s colonial occupation of East Turkistan. The ETGE calls on all governments and organizations committed to human rights to support the decolonization and restored independence of East Turkistan, and to support the ETGE’s complaint before the @IntlCrimCourt and its petition before the UN Committee on Decolonization (@UNDPPA), to ensure the survival of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan. east-turkistan.net/as-trade-…

The East Turkistan Government in Exile congratulates the Kyrgyz Republic🇰🇬on its election to the @UN Security Council, a historic milestone for Central Asia. We look forward to Kyrgyzstan raising the critical issues facing Central Asian nations, including occupied East Turkistan.

"Our ultimate goal is independence of East Turkistan; because without independence we cannot guarantee our living, we cannot guarantee our basic human rights." - Prime Minister @NurAbdulahat culturealberta.com/articles/…

📢📜 Commemorating the 512th Anniversary of the Yarkent Khanate (1514–1705) The East Turkistan Government in Exile solemnly commemorates the 512th anniversary of the founding of the Yarkent Khanate by Sultan Said Khan in late May 1514. For nearly two centuries, the Yarkent Khanate stood as a sovereign Turkic state governing the overwhelming majority of East Turkistan. From its political capital in Yarkent, the Khanate administered a flourishing civilization whose major cultural, economic, and intellectual centers included Kashgar, Khotan, Keriya, Aksu, Kucha, Turpan, Qarasheher, Qumul, Dukhan, and Uzgen. These historic cities formed a vibrant network of trade, scholarship, governance, and Islamic civilization along the Silk Road. The eastern frontier of the Khanate extended to the historic Jiayu Pass (Jiayuguan), long recognized as the traditional boundary separating East Turkistan from China, underscoring the Yarkent Khanate’s geopolitical independence and distinct civilizational identity. The Yarkent Khanate represented one chapter in East Turkistan’s more than 3,000-year history of statehood and its ancient civilization stretching back thousands of years. Throughout history, East Turkistan has been home to numerous sovereign Indo-European and Turkic civilizations and states, including the Tocharian city-states, the Xiongnu (Hun) Empire, the Kushan Empire, the Hephthalites, the Kök Türk Khaganate, the Uyghur Khaganate, the Kara-Khanid Khanate, the Idiqut Uyghur State, the Chagatai Khanates, and the Yarkent Khanate. In the modern era, this enduring tradition of sovereignty continued through the State of Yette Sheher (1864–1877), the First East Turkistan Republic (1933–1934), and the Second East Turkistan Republic (1944–1949). Together, these states reflected the enduring aspirations of the East Turkistani people for independence, national dignity, and self-rule. Like every nation throughout history, East Turkistan’s sovereignty has periodically been disrupted by foreign occupation and colonial domination, including rule by the Dzungar Khanate (1705–1759), the Manchu Qing Empire (1759–1863; 1877–1912), Chinese warlords (1912–1933), KMT-aligned Chinese warlords (1934–1943), and the Chinese Communist occupation (1949–present). Despite these occupations, the political will of the East Turkistani people to reclaim their national sovereignty and independence has never been extinguished. That struggle continues today through the work of the East Turkistan Government in Exile and the collective efforts of East Turkistanis worldwide. The Yarkent Khanate maintained diplomatic, cultural, and commercial relations with neighboring powers, including the Mughal Empire, Ming China, the Kazakh Khanate, and the Khanate of Bukhara, affirming its recognized place within the regional and international order of its time. On this solemn anniversary, the East Turkistan Government in Exile honors the enduring legacy of the Yarkent Khanate as a pillar of our national history and identity. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the restoration of East Turkistan’s independence and national sovereignty in accordance with international law, historical continuity, and the inalienable right of all peoples to self-determination.

چین کی سنکیانگ پالیسی کی حمایت پر ای ٹی جی ای کی پاکستان پر شدید تنقید واشنگٹن: مشرقی ترکستان حکومت جلاوطنی (ETGE) نے پاکستان اور چین کے حالیہ مشترکہ بیان پر سخت ردعمل ظاہر کرتے ہوئے اسلام آباد پر بیجنگ کی سنکیانگ پالیسیوں کی حمایت کا الزام عائد کیا ہے۔ تنظیم نے کہا کہ پاکستان نے ایک بار پھر چین کے مؤقف کی تائید کرکے اویغور مسلمانوں اور دیگر ترک نسل اقوام کے خلاف مبینہ اقدامات پر خاموش حمایت فراہم کی ہے۔ ای ٹی جی ای نے اپنے بیان میں کہا کہ چین مشرقی ترکستان، جسے بیجنگ سنکیانگ کہتا ہے، میں جاری پالیسیوں کے ذریعے انسانی حقوق کی سنگین خلاف ورزیاں کر رہا ہے جبکہ پاکستان مسلسل مشترکہ بیانات کے ذریعے ان اقدامات کی حمایت کرتا آ رہا ہے۔ تنظیم نے پاکستان کو چین کا “فعال ساتھی” قرار دیتے ہوئے کہا کہ یہ صرف سفارتی حمایت نہیں بلکہ ایک وسیع تر سیاسی مؤقف کا حصہ ہے۔ یہ ردعمل چین اور پاکستان کے 26 مئی کے مشترکہ بیان کے بعد سامنے آیا جس میں دونوں ممالک نے ایک دوسرے کے “بنیادی مفادات” کی حمایت کا اعادہ کیا تھا۔ بیان میں پاکستان نے ون چائنا پالیسی اور سنکیانگ سے متعلق چین کے مؤقف کی حمایت کی تھی۔ ای ٹی جی ای نے کہا کہ پاکستان خود کو دنیا بھر کے مظلوم مسلمانوں کا حامی قرار دیتا ہے لیکن چین کے ساتھ اس کا رویہ اس دعوے سے متصادم دکھائی دیتا ہے۔ تنظیم نے پاکستانی عوام سے مطالبہ کیا کہ وہ بیجنگ کی پالیسیوں کی حمایت کے خلاف آواز اٹھائیں اور اویغور مسلمانوں کے حقوق کے لیے حمایت کا اظہار کریں۔ چین سنکیانگ میں انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کے الزامات کو مسلسل مسترد کرتا رہا ہے اور اپنے اقدامات کو انسدادِ انتہا پسندی، سلامتی اور اقتصادی ترقی کے لیے ضروری قرار دیتا ہے۔ تاہم مغربی ممالک، انسانی حقوق کی متعدد تنظیمیں اور اویغور جلاوطن گروپ طویل عرصے سے بیجنگ کی پالیسیوں پر شدید تنقید کرتے رہے ہیں۔ #Pakistan #China #Laos #Xinjiang #EastTurkistan @ETExileGov

As a #Uyghur, this FT report puts me in a painful moral dilemma. They document the systematic dismantling of my people’s culture, identity, and society — yet fail to call it what it is: genocide. Is half the truth better than silence in an indifferent world? Or does their partial framing make them complicit in softening the horror? Are not half-truths as dangerous as lies? Or should all Uyghurs be eliminated in this genocide for others to “confidently” and “factually” call it a genocide properly, or forget it gently?

The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) called on @GovtofPakistan to reverse its position, condemn China's genocidal policies in occupied East Turkistan, and end all forms of political, intelligence, and security cooperation linked to East Turkistan. aninews.in/news/world/us/etg…

‼️13 years into China's genocide, mass imprisonment, enslavement, forced sterilization, and the tearing of Uyghur children from families continue. The human rights only framework has failed us. Only the decolonization and independence of East Turkistan can save our people. ft.com/content/119d8c3a-e10f…

📰ETGE Calls for Support for East Turkistan’s Independence to End China’s Nuclear Threat and Ongoing Genocide WASHINGTON, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) today called on the United States and other free nations to support East Turkistan’s independence, after new satellite imagery first reported by Reuters showed that the People’s Republic of China has built more than 80 launch pads, hardened bunkers, and command-and-control nodes near the Qumul (“Hami”) intercontinental ballistic missile silo fields in occupied East Turkistan. China conducted 45 nuclear tests at the Lop Nur site in East Turkistan between 1964 and 1996, with a more recent underground test reportedly carried out in secret in 2020. It has built one of its three new intercontinental ballistic missile silo fields there, at Qumul, as part of a buildup the Pentagon (@DeptofWar) projects will give China 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. The ETGE said the buildup places a nuclear arsenal aimed at the free world on the same ground where China is carrying out a campaign of genocide against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples, and that restoring East Turkistan’s independence is the only way to end the genocide and remove the threat. The campaign of genocide began in May 2014, when Beijing launched what it called a “People’s War on Terror.” On May 23, 2026, it entered its thirteenth year. Over more than a decade, it has grown into the systematic destruction of the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan. Documented crimes include mass internment, enslavement through forced labor, forced sterilization, the separation of more than one million children from their families, the destruction of thousands of mosques and cultural sites, and the mass killing of Uyghurs for their organs. The ETGE has long warned that the international human rights system has failed to stop these crimes. The United States determined in 2021 that China is committing genocide. Parliaments across the free world have condemned the crimes. A 2022 United Nations report found that the actions may amount to crimes against humanity. Yet no mechanism has halted the atrocities or addressed their root cause: China’s colonial occupation of East Turkistan. The ETGE says Beijing has used this inaction to try to make its colonial occupation permanent and, as the new imagery shows, to turn an occupied country into a strategic base for its nuclear forces. “Beijing stages its nuclear arsenal aimed at the United States and its allies in the territory of its ongoing genocide,” said @SalihHudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the ETGE and President of the East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM). “A restored, free, and independent East Turkistan would neutralize China’s nuclear threat.” The ETGE noted that China’s nuclear test site, ICBM silos, and the newly identified launch and command infrastructure are all located in occupied East Turkistan. “Supporting East Turkistan’s independence is not only a moral duty but a strategic necessity,” said Dr. @MamtiminAla, President of the ETGE. “The world’s security and our people’s survival are one and the same struggle.” The ETGE urged the United States and other free nations to formally recognize East Turkistan as an illegally occupied country; to support its petition for decolonization and the application of @UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, and to support East Turkistan’s legal complaint demanding accountability for genocide and crimes against humanity through the @IntlCrimCourt. The ETGE further called on the international community to empower the people of East Turkistan to restore their freedom and independence, secure their survival, and resist Chinese aggression that threatens international peace and security. east-turkistan.net/etge-call…

Şərqi Türküstan Sürgündə Hökuməti olaraq, qardaş Azərbaycan xalqını 28 May – Müstəqillik Günü münasibətilə ürəkdən təbrik edirik. Sizin müstaqilliyiniz abadi olsun! Uyğur və digər Türk xalqları Şərqi Türküstanda Çin müstəmləkə işğalı və soyqırımı ilə üzləşməkdə davam edərkən, Türk dünyasının milli müstəqillik, kimlik və ləyaqətin qorunması istiqamətində ortaq məsuliyyət daşıdığını bir daha vurğulayırıq. Bu tarixi gündə Azərbaycanı və bütün Türk dövlətlərini Şərqi Türküstanın milli istiqlaliyyətinin bərpası uğrunda ədalətli mövqedə dayanmağa çağırırıq.

East Turkistan's prime minister in exile a north Edmonton school bus driver edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…

Prime Minister @NurAbdulahat spoke with @EdmontonJournal's @StevenSandor on why East Turkistan's independence is the only way forward for our people, "because without independence we cannot guarantee our living, we cannot guarantee our basic human rights." edmontonjournal.com/news/loc…

DTSH, Türkiye dahil tüm hükümetleri Doğu Türkistan'ı işgal altındaki bir ülke olarak tanımaya, dekolonizasyon dilekçesini desteklemeye ve Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi önünde hesap verebilirlik sürecini başlatmaya çağırdı. @YenicagGazetesi @UNDPPA yenicaggazetesi.com/uygurlar…

The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) urged the people of Pakistan to reject their government’s endorsement of China’s “genocide and colonial occupation” of East Turkistan and support the region’s “swift liberation and independence”. ianslive.in/exiled-east-turk…

🕋ETGE President's Eid al-Adha Message: Pray and Act for East Turkistan The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) extends its warmest wishes to all Muslims around the world on the blessed occasion of Eid al-Adha. May this sacred festival be a time of spiritual renewal, unity, and divine mercy for you and your families. As we enter the blessed days of Eid following Arafah, we reflect on the eternal values of sacrifice, submission to God, and the struggle for justice. These are not merely symbolic; they are active responsibilities that call upon us to stand firmly in defense of truth and the oppressed. Today we remind the Muslim world that while most can gather and celebrate Eid in peace, the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Muslim peoples of Occupied East Turkistan continue to suffer under seventy-six years of Chinese colonial occupation. That occupation has hardened into a genocide which has now entered its thirteenth year and has not stopped. Millions remain imprisoned or enslaved through forced labor. Families are torn apart and Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim children remained interned in state-run indoctrination boarding facilities to be raised as atheists. More than 16,000 mosques have been destroyed and damaged and the very practice of Islam by Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims has been criminalized. This is one of the gravest crises of our time, and it is being inflicted upon Muslims. We therefore appeal to our brothers and sisters in faith to raise your hands in prayer this Eid for the swift liberation of East Turkistan and the deliverance of its people from Chinese colonial occupation and genocide. But we remind you that prayer alone is not enough. Faith without action is incomplete. We call on the governments of the Muslim world, on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and on every Islamic institution and organization to end their shameful silence and complicity. To those who trade with and shield the Chinese regime carrying out this genocide: your silence is a betrayal of the very faith you profess. Recognize East Turkistan as an occupied country. Condemn China’s genocide and colonial occupation. Cease all cooperation that enables it. Support our petition before the United Nations Committee on Decolonization and our complaint before the International Criminal Court. To the East Turkistani people, in our occupied homeland and in exile, we say: do not despair, and do not forget who you are. We are not Chinese; we are East Turkistanis. Our identity is not theirs to define, and our homeland is not theirs to own. The struggle for faith, freedom, and national liberation continues. The restoration of East Turkistan’s independence is the only guarantee of our people’s survival and fundamental human rights. This Eid, let our prayers be matched by our deeds. May Allah (SWT) accept all of our sacrifices, forgive our shortcomings, and strengthen our resolve. May He hasten the end of our oppression, revive our nation, and grant us victory in this noble cause. — Dr. @MamtiminAla, President, East Turkistan Government-in-Exile east-turkistan.net/eid-al-ad…

❗️Statement Condemning Pakistan’s Repeated Endorsement of China’s Genocide and Colonial Occupation of East Turkistan The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the People’s Republic of China for its ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, and the Government of Pakistan for endorsing it in its Joint Statement with Beijing of 26 May 2026. In backing “China’s just stance on issues concerning Xinjiang,” Beijing's colonial name for our occupied country, meaning “New Territory,” Pakistan has made itself an active accomplice to the gravest colonial occupation and genocide of the modern era. This is no isolated lapse but an annual ritual. Year after year, joint statement after joint statement, Islamabad recites Beijing’s line on command, having long ago traded its sovereignty for Chinese loans, weapons, and patronage. Pakistan has now called “just” the internment of millions of Muslims in concentration camps, mass enslavement through forced labor, the forced sterilization of Muslim women, the seizure of over a million children to be raised as atheist Chinese, the killing of tens of thousands Muslims each year for their organs, the demolition of more than 16,000 mosques, and the criminalization of Muslim names, prayer, fasting, the Quran, and the practice of Islam itself in Occupied East Turkistan. Pakistan’s complicity is not new. We categorically reject the joint statement’s invocation of the so-called “ETIM,” a label China fabricated after 9/11 by copying the acronym of the East Turkistan Independence Movement to recast a legitimate liberation struggle as “terrorism.” It was in Pakistan, China’s all-weather ally, that Beijing manufactured the fiction of a Uyghur “Islamist” and “terrorist” threat through the establishment of the “East Turkistan Islamic Party” in September 1997, using it to falsely brand and demonize our just cause as connected to international terrorism and a “jihad” for a “global Islamic caliphate.” Pakistan helped build the original face of this lie nearly thirty years ago, and by endorsing it again today, keeps it alive to justify China’s ongoing genocide to this day. “That Pakistan, a state that presents itself as a defender of oppressed Muslims, would bless the genocide and colonial subjugation of tens of millions of Muslims and parrot their executioner’s propaganda exposes that claim as hollow,” said @SalihHudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the ETGE. “Islamabad’s signature does not make genocide and colonial occupation just.” The ETGE calls on the Government of Pakistan to reverse its treacherous actions by recognizing East Turkistan as an occupied country, condemning China's genocide and colonial occupation, and ceasing all political, intelligence, and security cooperation that enables them. We further call on every conscientious Pakistani to reject their government’s endorsement of China’s genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan, and to raise their hands in prayer, especially on the Day of Arafah and Eid al-Adha, for the swift liberation of East Turkistan and the restoration of its independence. east-turkistan.net/statement…

Check out my latest article on @AmericanThinker. Do you remember @EnesFreedom and his activism for the Uyghurs? I interviewed their @ETExileGov Prime Minister @NurAbdulahat about his country's government and efforts to restore East Turkistan to full sovereignty and autonomy.

DTSH, Türkiye dahil tüm hükümetleri Doğu Türkistan'ı işgal altındaki bir ülke olarak tanımaya, dekolonizasyon dilekçesini desteklemeye ve Uluslararası Ceza Mahkemesi önünde hesap verebilirlik sürecini başlatmaya çağırdı. karar.com/guncel-haberler/uy…