11 April 2026
Press Release – For Immediate Release
East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE)
East-Turkistan.Net
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The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) unequivocally condemns the Chinese government’s state-sponsored propaganda event held on April 9, 2026 at Noble Park Community Centre in Melbourne, Australia, where ethnically Chinese state proxies fraudulently dressed as Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples to deceive the Australian public and the international community, and whitewash the Chinese government’s ongoing genocide and colonial occupation of East Turkistan.
The participants of this event are not Uyghurs or other Turkic peoples. They are ethnically Chinese individuals organized and directed by the Chinese Consulate General in Melbourne, fraudulently presenting themselves as the so-called “Xinjiang diaspora” to manufacture the false impression that the native Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan “live happily” under Chinese rule. The real East Turkistani/Uyghur diaspora does not host Chinese government officials, nor does it praise the Chinese colonial occupation regime responsible for the ongoing genocide of their people.
The event was jointly organized by the Australian Xinjiang Chinese Association and the Australian Xinjiang Seniors Association, both operating as unregistered proxy entities advancing Beijing’s colonial narrative on Australian soil. Chinese Consul General Fang Xinwen attended and declared Occupied East Turkistan, which Chinese colonizers call “Xinjiang” meaning “New Territory,” as “prosperous” and “thriving.” Australian Labor Party Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Clarinda Meng Heang Tak, Greater Dandenong Mayor and fellow Labor Party member Sophaneth Tan, and Islamic Council of Victoria President Mohamed Mohideen OAM all attended and lent their legitimacy to this culture-appropriating genocide denial propaganda event.
The ETGE is deeply alarmed that two Australian Labor Party members attended and legitimized a Chinese government genocide denial event. The Australian Labor Party, which claims to stand for multiculturalism, human rights, and anti-racism, must explain why its members are providing political cover for a genocidal regime’s propaganda operations on Australian soil.
he Beijing regime actively prohibits Ramadan, imprisons Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples for praying, demolishes mosques, forcibly sterilizes Uyghur women, and systematically kills Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples for their organs in occupied East Turkistan. Yet its ethnically Chinese proxies in Melbourne masqueraded as Uyghurs celebrating Eid al-Fitr, opened with the propaganda song “Our Xinjiang Is the Most Beautiful,” and closed by singing “Singing the Motherland.” Particularly outrageous is the participation of Islamic Council of Victoria President Mohamed Mohideen OAM, who praised China’s treatment of Muslims at an propagamda event claiming celebrating a holiday the Beijing regime actively bans. This is a betrayal of every Muslim suffering under Chinese colonial occupation.
“The Chinese government bans Ramadan and imprisons our people for praying and fasting, while ethnic Chinese proxies fraudulently dress as Uyghurs on Australian soil to manufacture the lie that our people are happy under genocide,” said Dr. Mamtimin Ala, President of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile. “This is state-sponsored racism and cultural appropriation on Australian soil. Australia must not allow its democracy to be weaponized by a foreign genocidal regime to deny and whitewash its ongoing crimes against humanity.”
The ETGE demands the Australian Government direct the AFP and ASIO to investigate the Australian Xinjiang Chinese Association and Australian Xinjiang Seniors Association under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme and Espionage and Foreign Interference Act 2018; direct the Australian Human Rights Commission to investigate this event under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975; and declare Consul General Fang Xinwen persona non grata and expel him from Australia.
The ETGE demands the Australian Labor Party to publicly condemn the attendance of its members at this event; demands ALP MP Meng Heang Tak and Mayor Sophaneth Tan to issue full public apologies to the East Turkistani/Uyghur people ; and calls on Islamic Council of Victoria President Mohamed Mohideen OAM to issue an immediate public apology to the Muslims of East Turkistan being persecuted under the Chinese occupation regime he chose to praise.
The ETGE calls on all governments, organizations and civil society to condemn this racist act of colonial fraud and stand with the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan in their legitimate struggle for decolonization, justice, and restoration of independence.