شەرقىي تۈركىستان سۈرگۈندى ھۆكۈمىتى

EAST TURKISTAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE

Restoring Independence for East Turkistan and its people

شەرقىي تۈركىستان سۈرگۈندى ھۆكۈمىتى

EAST TURKISTAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE

Restoring Independence for East Turkistan and its people

شەرقىي تۈركىستان سۈرگۈندى ھۆكۈمىتى

East Turkistan Government in Exile

Restoring Independence for East Turkistan and its people

East Turkistanis Call for ICC Investigation Following U.N. Vote Rejecting Debate on Uyghur Genocide

Press Release – For Immediate Release
6 October 2022
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WASHINGTON – On Thursday, October 6, 2022, the U.N. Human Rights Council rejected a motion to debate China’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan. 

Forty-seven member states of the U.N. Human Rights Council voted to hold a debate on ‘the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.’ The vote resulted in seventeen, primarily western, countries including Czechia, France, Japan, Poland, the U.K., and the U.S., among others voting in favor of a debate.

“We praise the 17 countries that voted ‘YES’ to the UNHRC motion to debate China’s atrocities in East Turkistan,” said Dr. Mamtimin Ala, the E.U. Representative of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “We are happy to see these 17 countries standing with oppressed people of East Turkistan against injustice,” he added.

However, 19 countries, mostly aligned with China, including the Muslim-majority countries of Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan, and Uzbekistan, voted against the UNHRC motion. The outcome of the U.N. vote has been received with great disappointment and disgust by the global East Turkistani diaspora.

“This latest vote has shown that the U.N. Human Rights Council is dominated by governments that lack any moral conscience,” said Prime Minister Salih Hudayar of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “We condemn the shameless treachery of the Muslim majority countries who voted against the motion and shamelessly support China’s atrocities against the Turkic Muslim majority people of East Turkistan,” he added.

Aside from those voting in favor and against the motion, eleven countries, including Brazil, India, Libya, Malaysia, and notably Ukraine, abstained from the vote. 

Prime Minister Salih Hudayar criticized the abstaining countries for showing “indifference” to China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan, stating that “silence in the face of oppression is complicity with the oppressor.” 

In light of the U.N. Human Rights Council rejecting to even debate China’s ongoing atrocities in East Turkistan, the East Turkistan Government in Exile is once again calling on governments, individuals, and organizations to pressure the International Criminal Court to launch investigations into China’s ongoing genocide in East Turkistan. 

On July 6, 2020, the East Turkistan Government in Exile and the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement filed a legal complaint asking the International Criminal Court to investigate the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples.

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