13 March 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 categorically condemned and rejected the Beijing regime’s so-called “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” rubber-stamped by the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on 12 March 2026.
Framed as promoting “ethnic unity,” the law establishes a legal framework to forcefully impose Han Chinese identity, language, and culture over non-Chinese peoples, in direct violation of international prohibitions against racial discrimination. These draconian policies are textbook examples of imperialism, fascism, and racism, codifying systematic genocide and colonial domination under the guise of “ethnic unity.”
The law mandates the expansion of Mandarin Chinese across education, media, and public life, while suppressing the use of Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian languages. It also enforces policies of forced assimilation, Chinese settler colonialism, and demographic engineering, including organized population transfers, state-directed settlement programs, and government-coerced inter-ethnic marriages, intended to weaken and eliminate non-Chinese peoples in their homelands. These policies meet the criteria for genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Any actions deemed to “damage ethnic unity” are criminalized under vague and sweeping provisions, subjecting peaceful expression of ethnic and cultural identity, beliefs, religious practice, and cultural preservation of non-Han peoples to severe punishment. Religious institutions are forced to follow the Chinese Communist Party’s policy of “Sinicization,” putting faith, worship, and religious life under direct state control and systematically eroding the freedom of belief for Muslim, Buddhist, and other communities.
The legislation also extends the legal reach of Beijing’s transnational repression by asserting authority over acts committed outside the PRC that allegedly undermine “ethnic unity,” creating an additional mechanism to intimidate diaspora communities, activists, scholars, and journalists who expose China’s colonial and genocidal policies abroad.
“This law is a weaponized blueprint for erasing non-Chinese peoples. The people of East Turkistan, Tibet, and Southern Mongolia face systematic destruction of their identity, language, faith, and very existence,” warned Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Security of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. “The international community cannot stand idle while colonialism and genocide are codified into law.”
These measures consolidate the ongoing genocide in East Turkistan, carried out under the Beijing regime’s so-called “People’s War on Terror,” launched in 2014 and now entering its 12th year. This campaign has served as the administrative framework for mass internment, forced labor, coercive population control, family separations, and the systematic destruction of religious and cultural heritage across the occupied territory.
The legislation exposes the true nature of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government, revealing that its promises of “ethnic equality,” “regional autonomy,” and “protection of minority languages and cultures” were nothing more than a cynical stratagem designed to conceal its colonial and genocidal agenda and to entrench Chinese colonial domination.
Dr. Mamtimin Ala, President of the ETGE, stated, “China has shown that no law, no promise, and no rhetoric can protect our people. The only guarantee of survival for the people of East Turkistan, Tibet, and Southern Mongolia is the full restoration of our national independence. Decolonization is not optional; it is a matter of life and death for our nations.”
The East Turkistan Government in Exile calls on the international community, including governments, institutions, and organizations worldwide to condemn this legislation and confront the broader system of Chinese imperialism and colonial domination it represents.
The international community must impose targeted sanctions on officials responsible for these systematic policies of racism, colonialism, and genocide, counter Beijing’s transnational repression, ensure accountability for genocide and crimes against humanity, uphold the right to national self-determination, and ensure the complete decolonization and restoration of independence for colonized peoples under United Nations principles and international law.