Washington DC [US], February 27 (ANI): The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has urged the international community, including relevant United Nations bodies, to take coordinated, principled action over what it says is the ongoing institutionalisation of a coercive security and control system in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), which it describes as an occupied territory under Chinese rule.
In a statement on X, the ETGE said the measures follow Beijing’s “People’s War on Terror” and “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism,” launched in May 2014 and approaching their twelfth year in 2026. The group alleged these campaigns serve as official justifications for policies it characterises as genocide and crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Turkic communities.
The ETGE cited reports of a “Political-Legal Work” conference held on February 9 in Urumchi under Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration, attended by senior political and security officials. The group said Chen Xiaojiang, identified as the region’s top Party official, spoke at the meeting, while Erkin Tuniyaz, described as the appointed administrator, presided. Participants reportedly included representatives from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the Xinjiang Military Region, the Armed Police Command and other security and intelligence bodies, with Wang Gang—described as the Party’s regional security chief—issuing specific enforcement directives.
According to the ETGE, the directives stressed “preventing risks, ensuring security and safeguarding stability,” calling for the continued normalisation of counterterrorism and stability-maintenance measures. They reportedly emphasised maintaining a “high-pressure” posture against the so-called “three forces,” accelerating an “integrated prevention-and-control” system, tightening border controls, intensifying de-extremification, and expanding anti-separatism and foreign-related security operations.
The ETGE argued these policies consolidate a mass surveillance and grassroots control apparatus, invoking the Fengqiao model of social governance, and said they reinforce practices that have drawn international criticism. The statement noted that the United States and several Western parliaments have found China’s actions in the region to amount to genocide and crimes against humanity. It also referenced a UN Human Rights Office assessment that serious human rights violations had occurred, some potentially amounting to crimes against humanity, and a joint declaration by 51 UN member states condemning abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
Salih Hudayar, ETGE Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security, described the directives as outlining a colonial control system intended to cement Beijing’s rule, alleging the normalisation of counterterrorism and de-extremification provides an administrative framework for mass surveillance, detention, forced labour and coercive population-control policies. The ETGE called on the international community to impose targeted sanctions on officials within what it termed the colonial chain of command, counter China’s transnational repression, and strengthen accountability through national and international legal mechanisms.
The group said the issue should be treated as one of decolonisation rather than an internal Chinese matter. Mamtimin Ala, president of the ETGE, urged governments to support the right of the people of East Turkistan to self-determination and national independence. (ANI)
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