The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, which represents the population of the occupied region, organized a protest and memorial observance on Saturday for the victims of China’s ongoing genocide in the region.
The government-in-exile, along with the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement hosted the event, which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the communist massacre of peaceful protesters in the northwest Turkistani city of Ghulja in 1997. China administers East Turkistan as the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” home to the vast majority of the nation’s Uyghur population and several other Muslim-majority communities. The government-in-exile asserts that, like Tibet, East Turkistan is an occupied separate country with a distinct population, culture, and history from the Han-dominated government of China.
Under dictator Xi Jinping, China has enacted policies…
