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Hans India
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Hans India
Uyghur scholar demands action against China's 'genocide' and slave labour
Oslo: Sayragul Sauytbay, Vice President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE), has once again highlighted the "ongoing genocide" and "crimes against humanity" being committed by China against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples. Speaking at the Ethical Trade Conference in Norway, Sauytbay - an ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang - also urged Oslo to reconsider ties with Beijing. "The Norwegian government and Norwegian businesses must urgently and unequivocally reassess their ties with China, to prevent themselves from becoming complicit in the genocide, crimes against humanity, and mass enslavement of millions in East Turkistan through forced labour," she said while delivering the opening remarks on Wednesday at Norway's most prominent platform for ethical and sustainable trade. Organised by Ethical Trade Norway and held at Dansens Hus in Oslo under the theme 'Make Sustainability Great Again!', the event marked the organisation's 25th anniversary and brought together over 300 participants from business, labour, government, and civil society. Narrating her own experience as an educator who was forced to work in Chinese concentration camps, Sauytbay detailed the widespread internment, torture, forced labour, and indoctrination in the country. "She highlighted that nearly one million Uyghur, Kazakh, and other Turkic children have been forcibly separated from their families and placed into Chinese state-run boarding schools and orphanages, where they are subjected to political indoctrination aimed at erasing their ethnic and religious identities," read a statement issued by the ETGE. Emphasising that China's atrocities in 'Occupied East Turkistan' are part of a broader imperial strategy, Sauytbay stated that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a central instrument of China's campaign to achieve global domination, allowing the Chinese Communist Party to expand its authoritarian influence under the guise of development and trade. "She warned that without full transparency and ethical due diligence, continued political and economic relations with China risk making Norway's government and Norwegian companies morally and legally complicit in the Chinese state's atrocities," the ETGE stated. Acknowledging the efforts of Ethical Trade Norway and several Norwegian companies to strengthen corporate accountability under the Transparency Act, she stressed that far more needs to be done to eliminate complicity in systems built on genocide and forced labour. "The East Turkistan Government in Exile renews its call for Norway and the international community to recognise and condemn the genocide and mass enslavement of the East Turkistani people perpetrated by the Chinese state, impose targeted sanctions on those responsible, and support the East Turkistani people's fundamental right to freedom, dignity, and national self-determination," the East Turkistan Government in Exile urged in a media release.
The Print
24-04-2025
- Politics
- The Print
ETGE condemns Azerbaijan-China alliance, calls it a ‘betrayal' of Turkic values, Uyghur genocide complicity
As stated in the ETGE release, this action represents a serious betrayal of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples enduring hardship under Chinese dominance in East Turkistan, as well as a betrayal of the Turkic values promoted by Azerbaijan's late President Abulfaz Elchibey, who promised never to side with Beijing against his Turkic kin. Washington DC [US], April 24 (ANI): The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) criticised the so-called 'comprehensive strategic partnership' established between Azerbaijan and the oppressive regime of the People's Republic of China. At a moment when millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples are being imprisoned, enslaved, tortured, raped, and sterilised in concentration camps across East Turkistan–an occupied territory and the eastern heartland of the Turkic world that China misleadingly refers to as 'Xinjiang' (meaning 'new territory') President Ilham Aliyev has opted to strengthen relations with the architects of this ongoing genocide, according to the release. For decades, the Chinese occupying authorities have conducted total warfare against the East Turkistani populace. Hundreds of thousands of Uyghur and other Turkic women have been forcibly sterilised to eliminate future generations, while millions of Turkic infants have been forcibly aborted. Over 1 million Uyghur and other Turkic children have been separated from their families and placed into indoctrination camps to be raised as Chinese, being taught to despise their Turkic heritage, the release stated. While these atrocities unfold every day, the Aliyev administration has chosen not only to be silent but to reward Beijing with public endorsement and a 'comprehensive strategic partnership.' Ilham Aliyev has engaged with the individual responsible for orchestrating the largest massacre and genocide against Turkic peoples in history. According to the release, Xi Jinping is not a collaborator; he is a fascist imperialist, a coloniser, and a genocidal dictator whose regime has killed, enslaved, and erased millions of Turkic peoples. 'This is not diplomacy; this is capitulation,' stated Dr Mamtimin Ala, President of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. 'By endorsing these agreements, Ilham Aliyev has publicly supported Beijing's genocidal colonisation of Occupied East Turkistan. He has granted China a propaganda win and disrespected every Turkic individual who values freedom over cheap deals and empty guarantees,' as quoted in the release. Azerbaijan's Aliyev regime deserves condemnation, and its agreements with Beijing should be acknowledged for what they truly are: a disgraceful alliance with a genocidal empire. Those who back China's aggression against the East Turkistani people must be unveiled, shunned, and remembered in history not as neutral figures but as complicit in the annihilation of a people, the release emphasised. (ANI) This report is auto-generated from ANI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.
