Washington, D.C., February 27 (ANI) — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has called on the international community, including United Nations bodies, to take coordinated and principled action over what it describes as the institutionalisation of a coercive security and control system in East Turkistan (Xinjiang), which the ETGE calls an occupied territory under Chinese rule.
In a statement posted on X, the ETGE said Beijing’s “People’s War on Terror” and “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism,” launched in May 2014, have evolved into long-running policies that the group alleges serve as official justification for measures it characterises as genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Turkic peoples.
The ETGE cited reports of a “Political-Legal Work” conference held on February 9 in Urumchi under Chinese Communist Party 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 and Erkin Tuniyaz 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 by the ETGE as the Party’s regional security chief—issuing specific enforcement directives.
According to the ETGE, the directives emphasised “preventing risks, ensuring security and safeguarding stability,” and called for the continued normalisation of counterterrorism and stability-maintenance measures. They reportedly urged 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 said these policies are consolidating a mass-surveillance and grassroots control apparatus, invoking the Fengqiao model of social governance, and reinforcing practices that have drawn international criticism. The statement referenced findings by the United States and several Western parliaments that China’s actions in the region amount to genocide and crimes against humanity, a UN Human Rights Office assessment that serious violations — some potentially amounting to crimes against humanity — have occurred, 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 meant to entrench Beijing’s rule, and said the normalisation of counterterrorism and de-extremification provides an administrative framework for mass surveillance, detention, forced labour and coercive population-control policies. The ETGE is urging targeted sanctions on officials it names within what it terms the colonial chain of command, measures to counter transnational repression, and strengthened accountability through national and international legal mechanisms.
The group argues the matter should be treated as an issue of decolonisation rather than solely an internal Chinese affair. Mamtimin Ala, president of the ETGE, has called on governments to support the right of the people of East Turkistan to self-determination and national independence.
(This report is based on a syndicated feed and is published as received.)
