25 February 2026
Press Release – For Immediate Release
East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE)
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Washington, D.C. — The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) today called on the international community, including relevant United Nations mechanisms, to take principled, coordinated action in response to the Beijing regime’s continued institutionalization of a coercive security-and-control system in East Turkistan, an occupied country currently under PRC colonial rule.
The ETGE emphasized that this escalation comes as the Beijing regime’s so-called “People’s War on Terror” and/or “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism,” launched in May 2014, approaches its twelfth year in May 2026. The ETGE stated that these labels function as official euphemisms used to administer policies that the ETGE assesses constitute genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic people.
On 9 February, the occupying power convened a “Political-Legal Work” conference in Urumchi under the CCP’s colonial administration. According to the published report, the Beijing regime’s top Party official in the occupied country, Chen Xiaojiang, delivered remarks, while the Beijing regime’s appointed colonial administrator, Erkin Tuniyaz, presided.
The meeting brought together senior officials from the occupation’s political and security apparatus, including the colonial paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC),” Xinjiang Military Region,” Armed Police Command, as well as other security and intelligence structures. Wang Gang, the occupying power’s Party security chief in the territory, issued “specific deployments” directing enforcement operations across the occupied country.
The published directives emphasize “preventing risks, ensuring security, and safeguarding stability,” and call for the “normalization and institutionalization” of “counterterrorism and stability maintenance.” They direct a continued “high-pressure” heavy-strike posture against designated “three forces,” and instruct rapid action under the doctrine expressed as “if it appears, strike it.”
The directives accelerate construction of an “integrated prevention-and-control” system, call for strengthened border control, and demand intensified “de-extremification.” They also instruct on expanding “foreign struggle” operations in the occupied country and intensifying the so-called “anti-separatism struggle.” The conference promotes “modernization of social governance” through the Fengqiao model, embedding control at the grassroots through surveillance and reporting networks.
These directives arrive despite established findings and repeated international concern. The United States, along with a dozen Western parliaments, has determined that the Beijing regime is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples. The UN Human Rights Office has assessed that serious violations occurred and that some may amount to crimes against humanity. In the United Nations, a joint declaration delivered by 51 UN Member States condemned crimes against humanity committed against Uyghurs and other Turkic communities.
“These directives describe the operating doctrine of a colonial control system as the Chinese regime uses ‘political security’ to mean the permanence of its occupation of East Turkistan,” said Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “The normalization of so-called ‘counterterrorism’ and ‘de-extremification’ provides the administrative framework for mass surveillance, detention, forced labor, coercive population control, and other policies constituting genocide and crimes against humanity,” he further added.
The ETGE urged targeted sanctions across the colonial chain of command; measures to counter China’s transnational repression; coordinated exposure and disruption of PRC influence and intelligence operations; and strengthened accountability for genocide and crimes against humanity through competent national jurisdictions and international mechanisms.
The ETGE emphasized that effective action must also confront the underlying reality: Chinese colonial occupation. The ETGE reaffirmed that the international community must treat the China-East Turkistan conflict as a decolonization question, not an “internal affairs” matter.
“Governments that claim to oppose genocide and defend human rights must address the root cause of our nation’s suffering: the Beijing regime’s colonial occupation of East Turkistan, said Mamtimin Ala, President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “They must affirm and support our people’s inalienable right to decolonization, self-determination, and the restoration of national independence,” he further added.