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THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EAST TURKISTAN GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3 MARCH - APRIL 2020

CSPAN: Rep Ted Yoho delivered a speech on East Turkistan at the US Capitol on March 11, 2020. See page 9 to read his full speech on East Turkistan.

SPECIAL 2 Special campaign to Free Perhat Tursun

3 President’s Nowruz Message

4 Prime Minister’s Ramadan message FOCUS 6 Summary of the situation in East Turkistan THE VOICE OF 8 Western companies profit from East Turkistan slave labor EAST TURKISTAN

9 Congressman Ted Yoho’s speech on East Turkistan The Voice of East Turkistan is the official bi-monthly journal of the East 12 ETGE’s 8th Parliament holds its Second Session Turkistan Government-in-Exile.

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24 US State Department says China might be conducting Volume 1, Issue 2 secret nuclear tests

24 USCIRF reports calls for sanctions on China January - February 2020 SPECIAL Special campaign to Free Dr. Perhat Tursun collection, One Hundred Love accept the massacre as love Lyrics, as well as a volume of Do you know that I am with you. novellas, Messiah Desert, After three hundred years they which attracted some amount awaken and do not know each of controversy for its other, their own greatness long unconventional themes and forgotten, imagery. I happily drank down poison, thinking it fine wine Dr. Perhat Tursun Through his writing Dr. Tursun When they search the streets and sought to modernize and cannot find my vanished figure April 30. 2020 awaken the Uyghur people to Do you know that I am with you. WASHINTON, DC free themselves. His literary works often tackled the most In that tower built of skulls you’ll In the coming weeks, the East sensitive topics in Uyghur find my skull as well Turkistan Government in Exile society. They cut my head off just to test plans to launch a special the sharpness of a sword. When campaign urging the United In January 2018, Dr. Perhat before the sword States Government and the Tursun was arrested and sent our beloved cause-and-effect European Council to pressure to a concentration camp. It is relationship is ruined like a wild China to free Dr. Perhat rumored that he has been lover Tursun. sentenced to 16 years in prions. Do you know that I am with you. There is no information on his Dr. Perhat Tursun, is the most whereabouts, the charges When in the market men with tall prominent author, poet, and against him, and his overall fur hats are used for target visionary in the modern history condition. practice and a man’s face draws of East Turkistan and the out in agony as a bullet cleaves his Uyghurs. He is loved, and In March 2006, he wrote the brain, and respected by the overwhelming poem “elegy” in almost a before the eyes that look to find majority of our people and has prophetic way foreseeing what the reason of their death the is much revered by the East was to befall our people in the executioner fades and disappears, Turkistan Government in Exile. coming decade. reflected in that bullet-pierced brain’s fevered thoughts will be Born in Atush, East Turkistan ELEGY my form, just then in January 1969, the young Perhat Tursun, translated by Do you know that I am with you. Perhat Tursun was a visionary Joshua L. Freeman and a modernist with a deep “Your soul is the entire world.” In those times when drinking wine passion for writing, philosophy, — Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha was a greater crime than drinking and poetry. By his middle blood, do you know the taste of the school years he began to write Among the corpses frozen in flour ground in the blood-turned poetry and began his writing exodus over the icy mountain mill? The wine career in his early college years pass, will you recognize me? Our that Alishir Nava’i deliriously and attained fame by brothers dreamed took its flavor from my publishing a succession of short we begged for shelter took our blood stories and novellas in the clothes. Pass by there even now In that endlessly mystical 1990s. In 1998, he brought out and you will see our naked drunkenness’s farthest, deepest a well-received poetry corpses. When they force me to chambers Do you know that I am with you. 2 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET SPECIAL President’s Nowruz Message music. Nowruz brought our people together as they In recent years, with China’s embarked into a new wholesale attack on our culture, beginning, a new year. our identity, and our very existence, the Nowruz holiday For over 3,000 years, our has been completely banned in people having been celebrating our homeland and is on the Nowruz. Due to the fact that verge of being completely President Ghulam Osman Yaghma Nowruz has always been a erased from our culture and collective holiday that the even our memories. March 20, 2020 people of the entire country EDMONTON come together to celebrate, this Today, on the occasion of the holiday was canceled and celebration of Nowruz across The following statement was banned by the Chinese the world, I would like to issued by the East Turkistan occupation forces during the remind you all of the most Government in Exile’s reign of Chinese Nationalist important element of President, Ghulam Osman Warlord Nowruz. Our new year Yaghma, to commemorate (1934-1943). The reason was celebrations, Nowruz, is a Nowruz: that he feared that the entire holiday that is based on the East Turkistani nation would knowledge of scientific My fellow East Turkistanis, revolt against Chinese astronomy, and it has a unique March 22 is our Nowruz occupation by coming collectivistic nature brining all holiday. This great day is based together. of our people together on astronomical discoveries regardless of their differences, and is set on the spring equinox This holiday, which is which is very different from any and this reflects the cultural incompatible with dictatorship, other holiday. characteristics of our ancient was banned due to the fear of ancestors. Since Nowruz is the dictatorial regime for God willing, when the Chinese traditionally the beginning of Nowruz gave our people the invaders are expelled from our the new year, it was a term hope of a happy New Year, a homeland and we restore East derived from the word Naw happy new start, and gave them Turkistan’s independence, we Ruz, which means “new day” in vitality and joy with its will celebrate this great ancient the Persian language. flexibility, including all cultural holiday, just like our ancient entertainment activities. ancestors - in the open, On this day, our ancient together with the entire nation, ancestors, who lived near the Although the Nowruz festival and with all the sports, Altai and Tengri (Heavenly / was reintroduced and competitions, music, arts, Godly) Mountains, held very celebrated once more starting dances, and stories of our past large lively celebrations to in the early 1980s, the glorious heroic ancestors. welcome the new year. In the dictatorial communist Chinese valleys our ancestors held occupation forces regime the I wish all of you a happy and races, sports competitions, original characteristics and blessed Nowruz! performed theatre like shows, meaning of this holiday by told stories of past heroes and focusing solely on broadcasting gave gifts to another while also a few actors and dancers singing and dancing to the singing songs and dancing to various melodies of the music. 3 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET SPECIAL Prime Minister’s Ramadan message Turkistan is nothing less than a genocide.

All of this is happening as a direct result of China’s invasion and occupation East Turkistan and the subsequent loss of East Turkistan’s independence.

Thus, this Ramadan, I call on the entire Muslim world, indoctrination, torture, rape, especially Muslim scholars, April 23, 2020 sterilization, organ harvesting leaders, and organizations to WASHINGTON DC and even execution in the fulfill their duties towards the concentration camps and oppressed and at the very least The full text of the East prisons. The organs of East pray for the liberation of East Turkistan Government in Turkistani Muslims are being Turkistan from Chinese Exile’s Prime Minister Salih harvested and sold as “halal occupation and oppression. I Hudayar is below: organs” by China to many urge everyone to break their Muslims across the world. silence and to speak out against Assalam Aleykum and China’s brutal genocide of Ramadan Mubarak! Religious scholars have all been Muslims and others in imprisoned and many have Occupied East Turkistan. On behalf of all the people of been executed. Mosques are Occupied East Turkistan, I being destroyed and turned May Allah protect all the people would like to wish all the into bars, clubs, and even pens of the world, including the Muslims across the world a for livestock. Qurans and people East Turkistan, from blessed Ramadan! religious texts have been China’s coronavirus. May Allah gathered and burned. Muslim soften the hearts of Muslim As many of you are aware, over women are being forced to leaders and give them the the past few years, Ramadan marry atheist Chinese men in a strength to stand up against has become completely banned bid to eradicate the future of China’s brutal occupation and in East Turkistan and over 3 East Turkistani existence. oppression in Occupied East million Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkistan! Ameen! Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar and other Over 500,000 East Turkistani Muslims have been thrown into Muslim children have been May everyone have a blessed concentration camps where forcibly separated from their month of Ramadan! they are forced to denounce families and sent to Chinese their religious and ethnic state run orphanages and identity.

boarding schools to be raised as The people of East Turkistan loyal atheist Chinese citizens. are being subjected to political What is happening in East 4 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS

Summary of the situation in East Turkistan

cradle of Uyghur and Turkic incorporated into the Manchu civilization, and history. Prior Qing Empire as “” to 1884, East Turkistan has meaning the “New Territory” in been the center of numerous 1884. Turkic States and Empires throughout history including Following the fall of the the (Hun) Empire, the Manchu Qing Empire in 1911, Location of East Turkistan Kushan Empire, the Turkic East Turkistan was ruled by Khaganate, the Uyghur Chinese ruers, with the Qumul East Turkistan is a vast country Khaganate, the Kara-Khanid Khanate being an exception. In covering 1, 828, 418 square State, the Chaghtai Khanate, 1931, Uyghurs and other Turkic kilometers and lies in the heart the Yarkent Khanate, the State people rebelled against Chinese of Asia. It is roughly 3 times the of East Turkistan (’s rule following the Chinese size of France and equivalent to Kashgaria). warlords attempt to colonize the size of North Sudan. East East Turkistan. On November Turkistan borders Russia, Following the fall of the 12, 1933, the Uyghurs, Kyrgyz, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Yarkent Khanate in 1705, East Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and other Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Turkistan became weakened Turkic peoples united to Pakistan, India, Tibet, following various battles for declare independence as the Mongolia, and China (if power within. In 1759, East East Turkistan Republic. The excluding all of Greater Tibet). Turkistan was invaded for the First East Turkistan Republic first time by the Manchu Qing was overthrown on April 16, The term ‘Turkistan’ is of Empire and was turned into a 1934 as result of Chinese Persian origins meaning “land vassal state under the reign of Nationalist (Kuomintang) and of the Turkic peoples” and the Naqshibandi Khojas. Hui (Chinese Muslims) dates back to the 5th century. However, the people of East invasion along with Soviet The western part of Turkistan Turkistan revolted some 42 intervention. For a decade, East was gradually conquered by times and in 1863, with the Turkistan was governed Tsar Russia in 1865. Following help of Yaqub Beg, overthrew independently by Sheng Shicai, the formation of the Soviet the Khojas and expelled a Chinese warlord close to both Union in 1922, Western Manchu Qing influence. the Soviet Union and the Turkistan was divided into five Republic of China. During Republics: Kazakhstan, East Turkistan was caught in Sheng’s reign over 200,000 Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, between the Great Power Uyghurs and other Turkic Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, competition between Tsar peoples were brutally all of which gained their Russia and the British Empire slaughtered as Sheng Shicai independence in 1911 following in what became known as the ramped up his efforts to the fall of the Soviet Union. Great Game. In 1876, the colonize East Turkistan with British Empire, fearing that the Han and Hui Chinese settlers. East Turkistan since ancient Russian Empire would invade times has been the homeland of East Turkistan, financed and On November 12, 1944, the Uyghur and other Turkic armed the Manchu Qing Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, peoples of Central Asia such as Empire to invade and occupy Uzbek, Tatar, and even Mongol Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, East Turkistan. After several people of East Turkistan united Tatars, and others. East years of resistance, East to resist Chinese occupation Turkistan is known to be the Turkistan was occupied and and declared independence 5 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS once more as the East the so-called “Xinjiang with the goal of Turkistan Republic. The Autonomous Region” in 1955 eventually eradicate East Second East Turkistan Republic and annexed the far eastern Turkistan and its people. was a much more modern and parts of East Turkistan into Between 1964 and 1996, the fully functioning Republic China’s western provinces of People's Republic of China which maintained its Gansu and Qinghai. conducted 46 nuclear tests independence until the People’s which killed at least 750,000 Republic of China invaded and In 1956 over 50 officials of the Uyghurs and other Turkic occupied East Turkistan with former East Turkistan peoples and left millions the help of the Soviet Union in Republic, including the Vice exposed to radiation which led late 1949. Chairman of the so-called to a high rate of birth defects “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous and the appearance of leukemia The number of people living in Region," protested the Chinese and other cancerous diseases East Turkistan is a matter of government and sent a among East Turkistan’s considerable debate. No delegation to Beijing urging population. satisfactory senses of the China to keep its promises. population has ever been bade. Shortly after the delegation Today, over 3 million Uyghurs, Uyghur and other Turkic returned to East Turkistan, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, and sources estimate the total most of the officials were Tatars are locked up in population of the Turkic arrested, with many of them concentration camps and labor peoples in East Turkistan to be being secretly executed. camps, with millions more roughly 35 million of which locked up in prisons . over 30 million are believed to Although China officially Hundreds of thousands of be Uyghurs, with over 3 million designated most of East young Uyghur and other Turkic Kazakhs, and the rest being Turkistan as the so-called men and women have been Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, and Tatars. In “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous forcibly transferred to work as 1947, the East Turkistan Region,” there is no self-rule or slave labor in factories across Republic had estimated that the self-government for the Chinese provinces. At the same total population of East Uyghurs and other Turkic time, the Chinese government Turkistan's Turkic peoples at peoples. More than 90% of all has been giving lucrative being over 7 million. important political, incentives such as free housing, administrative, and economic free health insurance, high Since December 22, 1949, East offices in East Turkistan are salary, free land, and a state Turkistan has been illegally occupied by Chinese forces. In pension to settlers occupied by the People’s a bid to eradicate the national who migrate to East Turkistan. Republic of China. In late 1949, unity of East Turkistan and its As a result of the colonization the People’s Republic of China people, China used the classical and genocide, East Turkistan’s (PRC) and officials of the East “divide and rule” strategy to demography has changed from Turkistan Republic signed a divide East Turkistan’s Turkic over 90% Turkic people in 1949 treaty which stated that the peoples such as the Uyghur, to around 55% today. The PRC would help develop and Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and others Chinese population has modernize East Turkistan and into separate administrative increased from less than 5% to leave within 3 to five years. prefectures, countries and over 40% today. However, the Chinese townships. government didn’t honor the treaty and thePeople’s Republic Since December 1949, China March 1, 2020 of China incorporated most of has been engaging in a brutal WASHINGTON DC East Turkistan into China as campaign of colonization and 6 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS Western Companies Profit from East Turkistani Slave Labor Volkswagen, Xiaomi, Zara, Zegna, and ZTE. Some brands are linked with multiple factories. For decades, China has been

Map showing locations where Uyghurs are being transferred to. Logos of companies profiting The Australian Strategic Policy Adidas, Alstom, Amazon, form East Turkistan slave labor. Institute (ASPI) recently Apple, ASUS, BAIC Motor, published a report titled ‘ BMW, Bombardier, Bosch, subjecting Uyghurs and other Uyghurs for Sale’ highlighting BYD, Calvin Klein, Candy, Turkic peoples in East its findings on the forced Carter’s, Cerruti 1881, Changan Turkistan, most recently with transfer of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Automobile, Cisco, CRRC, Dell, the building of its so-called Kyrgyz, and other Turkic Electrolux, Fila, Founder “vocational training center” peoples of East Turkistan into Group, GAC Group concentration camps and labor Chinese provinces for the (automobiles), Gap, Geely camps, millions of Uyghurs and purpose of forced labor. In its Auto, General Electric, General other Turkic peoples were report the ASPI found that Motors, Google, H&M, Haier, subject to forced labor. In some 83, mostly western, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hisense, addition, to mass interment, companies were involved in Hitachi, HP, HTC, Huawei, hundreds of thousands of business with companies that iFlyTek, Jack & Jones, Jaguar, Uyghurs and other Turkic were known to be using East Japan Display Inc., L.L.Bean, people were forcibly transferred Turkistani forced labor to Lacoste, Land Rover, Lenovo, out of East Turkistan and into produce its products which are LG, Li-Ning, Marks & Spencer, Chinese provinces in what is no then exported and sold across Mayor, Meizu, Mercedes-Benz, doubt state sponsored human the globe. MG, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, trafficking and a clear violation Mitsumi, Nike, Nintendo, of the international Trafficking ASPI’s research has identified Nokia, The North Face, Oculus, Protocol. 83 foreign and Chinese Oppo, Panasonic, Polo Ralph companies directly or indirectly Lauren, Puma, Roewe, SAIC In 2006, China announced its benefiting from the use of Motor, Samsung, SGMW, 11th five year plan in which Uyghur workers outside East Sharp, Siemens, Skechers, some 400,000 mostly young Turkistan (“Xinjiang”) through Sony, TDK, Tommy Hilfiger, Uyghur women (ages 16-25) potentially abusive labour Toshiba, Tsinghua Tongfang, were forcibly transferred out of transfer programs: Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret, Vivo, East Turkistan and into Abercrombie & Fitch, Acer, Chinese provinces for forced 7 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS labor between 2006 and 2010. In June 2009, several hundred young Uyghur workers in a Chinese toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province were brutally massacred by Chinese workers which in turn led to the July 5th 2009 protests in Urumchi and other parts of East Turkistan.

Uyghurs forced to pack their belongs as they await to be transferred to Chinese provinces as “surplus labor.”

peoples are literally striving to people, since China invaded survive. and occupied East Turkistan in December 1949, it has been At the time of this writing, over waging a campaign of 3 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, colonization and genocide Kyrgyz, and other Turkic which continues to this day. peoples are in concentration The only way to truly safeguard camps, prisons, and labor and ensure East Turkistan and camps across occupied East its people’s freedoms, human The July 5th 2009 protests Turkistan. Some 500,000 rights, and survival is by Uyghur and other Turkic restoring East Turkistan’s children have been forcibly independence. TikTok video showing Uyghurs separated from their families working at a Skechers factory and sent to state-run Thus, as the official in eastern China - March 2020 orphanages and boarding representatives of East schools. Tens of thousands of Turkistan and its people, we were brutally suppressed by young Turkic women have been call on the international Chinese security forces and forced to marry Han Chinese community to TAKE ACTION thousands of Uyghurs and men. Due to the coronavirus and put an end to the China’s other Turkic peoples were outbreak, many Uyghurs and prolonged colonization, massacred with tens of other Turkic peoples have been genocide, and occupation of thousands forcibly disappeared. prevented from leaving their East Turkistan. We call on Due to the lack of international homes and left to starve while western companies to not be condemnation of China’s brutal hundreds of thousands of complicit in China’s brutal atrocities in East Turkistan, the young Uyghur and Turkic men campaign of colonization and Chinese government was and women are being genocide of Uyghurs and other emboldened to continue its transferred to China to work as Turkic peoples of East brutal campaign of colonization slave labor. Turkistan and urge them to and genocide to where the STOP using forced labor. Uyghurs and other Turkic The oppression in East Turkistan is nothing new for its 8 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS Congressman Ted Yoho’s Speech on East Turkistan

the Congressional Record not re-education camps, they Proceedings and Debates of the are concentration camps. 116th Congress, Second Session They have armed crematoriums Vol. 166 No. 47. around the country associated with these camps. And my question when we were in the Rep Ted Yoho’s Speech: Foreign Affairs Committee doing this hearing: Why do you Congressman Ted Yoho meets with PM Salih Hudayar - Feb 21, If you look in the Xinjiang need an armed crematorium? 2020. region, which is East Turkistan. You know, the people that are East Turkistan has been an supposed to be there are Asian area of China for over supposed to have passed away. March 11, 2020 100 years. Yet, when the But we recently met with some WASHINGTON DC Communist Party came in they people that—I found it very took it over, recently they re- interesting. The people we met In mid February, members of named it Xinjiang, which with were from East Turkistan. the East Turkistan Government means New Territory. And I They had a Cossack person with in Exile held several meetings bring that up because it is home them who had just won an with members of the US to a Muslim population, the award from Mike Pompeo and Congress. One of the meetings Uighurs, the Kyrgyzstans, the First Lady Melania Trump, for that took place was with Kyrgyz, that are being her courage, Women of Congressman Ted Yoho, the suppressed by China. Courage Award. Ranking Member one the US House Foreign Affairs I think we have all heard of the And what we found as we were Subcommittee on Asia, the concentration camps that are listen- ing to the story is, this Pacific and Nonproliferation. going up all over China. We family, an educated family, the The Congressman spoke to to have done hearings—I sit on husband was a schoolteacher, Prime Minister Salih Hudayar the Foreign Affairs Committee, the wife was a practicing about the overall situation in I chaired the Asia Pacific medical doctor. I mean, they East Turkistan and promised to Subcommittee last year, the were model citizens. raise the issue. ranking member this year, and Well, the husband saw what we have had hearing after was happening to his relatives, Later on March 10, 2020 he hearing on the human rights what was happening in the again with Prime Minister suppression, just the terrible Xinjiang area, so he got Hudayar who introduced Ms. things that they are doing over passports, took himself and his Sayragul Sauytbay, a Kazakh there. kids out. The wife, the doctor, woman from East Turkistan applied for a passport, China who had escaped a When we looked into it, we would not allow her to go. They concentration camp and have enough reports to feel this felt she needed to go to the re- received the State Department’s is true. What they are doing is, education camp. This is a lady 2020 Women of Courage China has interned over a that is a doctor that was Award. The very next day, million Uighurs, and other practicing. China puts them in Congressman Yoho gave a 10 ethnic groups, the Kyrgyz, the there, saying it was a threat to speech on East Turkistan the Turkistanis, they have put them our country, she was a terrorist, United States Capitol. His into these so-called re- they need to be re-educated. speech below was taken from education camps, but they are 9 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS What China is trying to do is ‘‘China to address an overflow judgment. ‘‘The China Tribunal erase other cultures. We have in overcrowded camps, where concluded ‘that forced organ just seen this over and over up to 1.1 million Uyghurs and harvesting has been committed again. And so when we spoke to other Muslim ethnic minorities for years throughout China on a these people that were in our accused of harboring strong significant scale, and the office this week, I asked them, I religious views and politically tribunal has had no evidence said: Do you have reports of incorrect ideas have been held that the significant infra- abuses? And they went on and since April of 2017.’’ This is structure associated with on about the abuses. How they something that has been going China’s transplantation strap people in chairs, they on not just 3 years, but longer industry has been dis- mantled electrocute them, they torture than that, but it is coming to and absent a satisfactory ex- them, pull out their fingernails. light. planation as to the source of The women were being raped, readily available organs people were being—I can’t say We have asked their concludes that forced organ murdered, because they said ambassadors, have they had the harvesting continues till they would disappear and never Western Press in there, free today.’’’ be seen again. and open presses? And they These are things—you know, it said: Oh, no, there is no need. I don’t know how a civilized is not just hearsay. We have These aren’t going on. But we world can tolerate such reports from all kinds of know they are going on. This is atrocities. And when I see the magazines, all kinds of re- just one report. armed crematoriums or the searchers. Uighurs being taken from their I have another one here, homes, forced from their Here is one from Radio Free Madam Speaker, information homes, forced into a Asia, ‘‘China Secretly concerning China killing concentration camp, and then Transferring Uyghur Detainees prisoners to harvest organs. being rented out or sold as from Xinjiang to Shaanxi, This is something we have chattel to manufacturers, and Gansu Province Prisons.’’ And heard over and over again. We this is well-documented, I don’t it goes on talking about ethic have had hearings on this. This know how we can tolerate that Uighurs held in political ‘‘re- is a multi-billion-dollar or how we can look at our trade education camps.’’ I am going industry in China. It happens to policies to do those kind of to put quotes around that be- any- body that doesn’t agree deals with a country that works cause they are not re-education with the Communist Party. like that. camps, they are concentration They get picked up, they get camps, because the Chinese imprisoned. Health checks are If they treat their own people Communist Party is the highest done. In fact, this person that that way, how do we expect of the hierarchy, there can be was in our office is a medical they are going to treat any of nothing higher than that. And if doctor, she would do the health us? you have a religion, and you checks on these young Muslim have a deity above that, that men, and they would get a red We have talked about Tibet. We puts the Chinese Communist check if they were healthy. And have talked about Xinjiang, Party and people like Xi in the darkness of night, they East Turkistan, the purging of Jinping in fear because they would disappear, never to be individuals, the social credit don’t know how to control free seen again. scores, the coercion and thought. These people are being intimidations. sent to prisons in those The China Tribunal, which was provinces. a tribunal put together to look I haven’t touched on the theft into this, has published its final of intellectual property. There 10 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS is over $600 billion of And, again, if you talk to these did not come here on their own intellectual property theft that people—I have talked to free will. They were brought goes on and erodes economies pharmacists, I have talked to here,’’ said one of the fruit all over the world. lawyers, I have talked to sellers at her stall. ‘‘The engineers, I have talked to Uighurs had to come because I want to read an article here doctors, they didn’t need to be they didn’t have an option. The just briefly. ‘‘China Compels re-educated. What China government sent them here,’’ Uighurs to Work in Shoe wanted to do was intimi- date another vendor told the Factory That Supplies Nike.’’ them, and basically brainwash reporters. They were sent And I don’t bring Nike’s name them from their habits of a forcibly. out to put a ding on Nike. It religion, of practicing their says: ‘‘The workers in standard- religion, and become good The report that we read did not issue blue jackets stitch and model Chinese citizens that ask their names out of concern glue and press together about 8 bow down to the Communist for their safety, so they could million pairs of Nikes each year Party. not discuss the issues. at the Qingdao Taekwang Shoes Company, a Nike supplier for ‘‘But there is new evidence to Like I said, we met with Mrs. more than 30 years and one of show that the Chinese Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic brand’s largest factories. ‘‘They authorities are mov- ing Kazakh from East Turkistan churn out pair Shocks, with Uighurs into government- that, today, is now called, as I their springers in the heels, and directed labor around the said, Xinjiang. She is the one the American after pair of country as part of the central who shared this. She is a true shock absorb- signature Air government’s ‘Xinjiang Aid’ freedom fighter. Max, plus seven other lines of initiative. sport shoes. ‘‘For the party, this would help ‘‘But hundreds of these workers meet its poverty-alleviation did not choose to be here: They goals’’—and, again, this is a are ethnic Uighurs from China’s doctor. They are say- ing, we western Xinjiang region’’— need to alleviate their poverty which again means New goals—‘‘but also allow it to Territory, they renamed from further control the Uighur East Turkistan—‘‘sent here by population and break local authorities in groups of 50 familial’’—The Uighur workers, to toil far from home. they are afraid or unable to interact—the Uighur workers at ‘‘After intense international these facilities are afraid or criticism of the Communist unable to interact with anyone Party’s campaign to forcibly in this town where they went to assimilate the mostly Muslim north of Qingdao, beyond the Congressman Ted Yoho’s tweet Uighur minority by detaining most superficial of transactions about his meeting with Sayragul Sauytbay - March 10, 2020. more than a million people in at the stalls or in the local re-edu- cation camps, party stores where they go. They officials said last year that most won’t talk to anybody. have ‘graduated’’’— graduated from a work camp. They won’t talk to anybody. The people at these towns say: ‘‘Everyone knows the Uighurs 11 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS ETGE’s 8th Parliament holds its second session

April 18, 2020 the Parliament led by the Vice members of he East Turkistan WASHINGTON DC President (Mr. Abdulahat Nur Parliament in Exile are to pray from Canada) proposed setting their fees every month starting The East Turkistan a mandatory fee to be paid from the opening of the 8th Government in Exile’s 8th monthly by every Member of Parliament in November 2019. Parliament held its second the Parliament to help fund the The fees will be disputed into session on Saturday April 18, Government in Exile and its the East Turkistan Government 2020. The Parliament in Exile activities. in Exile’s bank and will be convened online at 3:00 PM administered by the Ministry of (Washington, DC time) and was 2) Scheduling of Finance. The Ministry of called to order by the Deputy Parliamentary Sessions: A Finance shall be requited to Speaker (Mr. Yarmemet Barat motion put forward by the submit a financial report to from the United States). Prime Minister (Mr. Salih Parliament at every Hudayar from the United Parliamentary session. As customary, the States) proposed holding Parliamentary Secretary (Mr. Parliamentary Sessions every Resolution No 2. Tursun Shamseddin from month or every other month to The East Turkistan Parliament Norway) took roll call and help effectively deal with the in Exile will meet once every six announced that 22 of the 32 various issues faced by East weeks. ALL Members of the Members of the Parliament in Turkistan and its people in a Parliament are relied to attend, Exile were present for the more timely manner. those who are unable to attend second session. must notify the Parliament 3) Commission to Improve Secretary in advance. Members The second sessions agenda and Oversee Information & of the Parliament who fail to included short speeches by the Broadcasting: A joint motion attend the parliamentary President, Vice President, and set forward by the Speaker (Mr. sessions with any justifiable the Prime Minister of the East Osmanjan Tursun from excuses shall be warned and Turkistan Government in Exile Germany) and the President disciplined by the Speaker of along with a speech by the (Mr. Ghulam Osman Yaghma the Parliament. Alla Ministries Speaker of the Parliament in from Canada) called for setting of the East Turkistan Exile. Proposals (motions) were up a joint commission by the Government in Exile shall be put forth by various Members Parliament required to provide updates to of the Parliament, which were And the Ministry of the East Turkistan Parliament followed by an open debate on Information and Broadcasting in Exile in terms of their the proposals (motions). Votes to improve and oversee the specific work. were conduction on proposed Government’s Information and resolutions and the parliament Broadcasting network. The overall time spent on the was closed with a speech by the After a lengthy debate, the second session of the 8th President. proposals were put up for vote Parliament was 4 hours and 15 and two resolutions were minutes. Due to certain The following Proposals subsequently passed. sensitivities of the issues (Motions) were set forward: discussed in Parliament, Resolution No.1 details of all topics, issues, and 1) Mandatory Fees: A A mandatory fee has been set decisions made by the renewed joint motion set using the US dollar as the Parliament have not been forward by various members of universal currency. ALL provided in depth. 12 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FOCUS

Independence is the principal desire of East Turkistan’s people paid a very high price to attain independence in 1933 and once more in 1944. Today, our nation is facing wholesale genocide and are at a great risk of being eradicated completely as a direct result of the loss of East Turkistan’s independence since 1949.

Therefore, any statements or actions, which undermine our people’s desire, made by any group or organization shall be viewed nothing less than April 30, 2020 delude the truth. Ilham Tohti is treason. No one has the right to EDMONTON under a lot of pressure by the betray our nation and its desire Chinese occupation forces, to regain its independence. The statement below was therefore any statements he has Independence is a right that the issued by the Presidential made cannot truly be viewed people of East Turkistan can Office of the East Turkistan and accepted as being made by never give up and it is the Government in Exile his own free will. Ilham Tohti is moral duty and responsibility currently in prison and under a of every East Turkistani to Earlier this week, on April 27, lot of pressure, therefore any defend this right. Thus, the 2020, an organization calling statements made by Ilham East Turkistan Government in itself the “Ilham Tohti Tohti in regards to the overall Exile calls on all East Institute” issued a press release interest of East Turkistan and Turkistanis, individuals and claiming to promote and its people cannot and will not organizations alike, in the expand Ilham Tohti’s ideology, be seen as representing the diaspora to condemn this act of which according to them desire of East Turkistan’s betrayal which the so-called allegedly opposes separation people. “Ilham Tohti Institute” has and advocates living in unity undertaken. with the Chinese occupation The East Turkistan forces. According to Government in Exile strongly No matter what the excuses treacherous organizations’ condemns the “Ilham Tohti maybe, the East Turkistan blathering, Ilham Tohti’s Institutes” press release and Government in Exile will never ideology is supposedly one that views it as an act of betrayal stand silent an allow any rejects separation and towards East Turkistan and its individual or organizations to advocates for all nations under people. betray our people’s desire for Chinese occupation to continue independence! The East living together under Chinese The independence of East Turkistani people will NEVER rule. Turkistan is and has always give up their struggle to regain been the principal desire held their independence! This is completely false; it is by the people of East Turkistan. deception and an attempt to In the past century, our nation

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Resolution No. 30 of the First East Turkistan Republic (1933-1934) The First East Turkistan Republic was a short lived state that was established by Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, and other Turkic peoples of East Turkistan on November 12, 1933. Due to Soviet and Chinese invasion along with treachery within, the First East Turkistan Republic was overthrown on April 16, 1934.

The following document is translated from the original Resolution No. 30 issued by the East Turkistan Republic’s Ministerial Cabinet on March 2, 1934. Government and Military officials of the First East Turkistan Republic - March 1934, Yengisar Resolution No. 30 Deputy Finance (Treasury) the Soviet Government at The East Turkistan Islamic Minister Muhemmed Haji Irkeshtam following his Republic’s Ministerial Cabinet’s Mekhdumzade [President Khoja Niyaz Haji’s] Extraordinary Meeting Endowment Minister trip to Russia during the Shemsidin Turdi Haji middle of February this year March 2, 1934 – 10 AM Trade Minister Salihbeg [1934]: Yengisar City Insuddin Zade Khotan Amir Nur Ehmed Participants: Grand National Assembly Prime Minister Sabit Abdulbaqi (Parliament) Secretary Sufi Foreign Minister Qasimkhan Zade Haji Mr. Musajan from the Justice Minister Zerip Qari Independence Association Interior Minister Seyidzade All commanders from the Yunusbeg Central War Department and Health Minister Abdullah Ishan Military General Staff Hoja Xaliq participated. Defense Minister and Deputy Commander in Chief Sultanbeg Issues that we laid out during Bekhtiyarbeg this meeting: Education Minister Abdulkerimkhan Mekhdum Prime Minister Sabit Finance (Treasury) Minister Eli Abdulbaqi’s report on the Resolution No. 30, page 1 Akhunbay agreement conducted between President Khoja Niyaz Haji and 14 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FEATURE According to the Turkistan to swear allegiance to A disciplined army needs to be correspondence letter No. 308 Military Governor Sheng; established after preserving the sent by Khoja Niyaz to Prime peace in East Turkistan, the Minister Sabit Abdulbaqi and Khoja Niyaz shall transfer all of Soviet Government will send a the entire Ministerial Cabinet the soldiers from Qumul and military delegation from the on February 25, 1934, along Turpan that are under his USSR along with necessary with the explanation of Sabit control commanded by General officials to help form this army; Abdulbaqi, its clear that Khoja Mehmut [Mehmut Muhiti] to Niyaz Haji made the following Military Governor Sheng so The Soviet Government will agreement with the Soviet that they can assist the Chinese keep in mind to arm the new Government: and Russian soldiers in army that will be formed in disarming the National Army East Turkistan with the latest *Agreement made between composed of Uyghurs, Uzbeks, weapons; Khoja Niyaz Haji and the Soviet Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Tungans Government: [Huis] with the goal of bringing A special agreement will be peace to Xinjiang; made between the Soviet From this day on [February 25, Government and the Urumchi 1934], Khoja Niyaz Haji will cut The agreement made between Government in regard to all contact with the Nanjing the Soviet Government and political and financial issues. Government [Republic of Military Governor Sheng in China] and will declare East regard to transferring the The East Turkistan Islamic Turkistan as independent in Chinese, who are withdrawing Republic’s Ministerial Cabinet terms of internal affairs but from Manchuria, through which obtained this externally it will be a country Russia into East Turkistan shall information has issued the that looks towards Russia; be announced by Khoja Niyaz following resolution [in Haji; response]: Shall dissolve East Turkistan’s independence, shut down the Khoja Niyaz Haji shall National Republic and its immediately dismiss and expel Islamic Government and swear the foreign bureaucrats that are allegiance to Government working in the Military headed by Military Govern Department of the East Sheng [Sheng Shicai] in Turkistan Islamic Republic Urumchi; from the border of East Turkistan; Khoja Niyaz Haji will be appointed head of the The Soviet Government shall government, in other words work to develop [modernize] Civil Governor by the Urumchi and preserve the unity of East Government as soon as he Turkistan. leaves his duty as the President [of the East Turkistan The Soviet Government shall Republic]; (has full responsibility to) Resolution No. 30, page 2 protect East Turkistan from any Shall find a way to get the possible attacks coming from National Armed Forces found inner China, Nanjing, in the territory of East Manchuria and any other By invitation of the Soviet attacks coming from elsewhere; Government, Khoja Niyaz Haji 15 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FEATURE going beyond his duties notify their governments about of China], Japanese assigned to him has made an the Bolsheviks illegal actions! Government, and the illegal agreement, that is in international community in violation of our national Taking advantage of Khoja regard to defending our rights! interests, with the Bolsheviks at Niyaz Haji’s foolish signature Irkeshtam. The East Turkistan on the agreement, the Soviet Signed: Prime Minister Sabit Islamic Republic sees this Government will seek to occupy Abdulbaqi action as treason to the East Turkistan. Thus, it shall be Grand National Assembly Turkistani people; recommended that the Minister Secretary: Sufi Zade of Defense and the General The 12-point agreement made Chief of Staff undertake between the Soviet Government measures to protect [East and Khoja Niyaz Haji is illegal Turkistan] from enemy attacks! [has no validity]; Keeping in mind the difficult situation, the entire nation Giving up East Turkistan’s shall be mobilized [for independence, which was defense]! achieved over the years by making countless sacrifices, is A clear order shall be given to accepting the eradication of Sherif Khan calling on him to East Turkistan’s Turkic prevent the Red Bolsheviks [people]. Keeping this in mind, from transferring Chinese into the Turkic [people] of East East Turkistan via Russian Turkistan are ready to devote territory! everything to save our national Resolution No. 30, page 3 independence. The Turkic The East Turkistan Grand [people] of East Turkistan National Assembly shall be despise Khoja Niyaz Haji’s called, with urgency, for a unforgivable treason; meeting on March 10.

The Turkic [people] of East This Ministerial Cabinet Turkistan will never accept Resolution which has been being in the hands of the made in regard to the Bolsheviks, thus the USSR agreement made between Government shall be informed Khoja Niyaz Haji and the Soviet of our nation’s grievance Government shall be given to through the Soviet Consulate in the Grand National Assembly! Kashgar; If Khoja Niyaz doesn’t heed to the Ministerial Cabinet’s The Soviet troops occupation of appeals and give up his path, East Turkistan is a violation of the Grand National Assembly international law and has not shall hold a vote to impeach been seen in any history. The him from his duties as the Turkic [people] of East President and the Commander Turkistan will see this as in Chief! aggression and Red Imperialism, thus we shall have An appeal shall be made to the foreign consulates in Kashgar Nanjing Government [Republic 16 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FEATURE

30th Anniversary of the Baren Revolution goal of restoring East Turkistan’s independence.

Chinese authorities were enraged. They poured even more troops into Baren Township — more than 20,000 People’s Liberation Army, People’s Armed Police, and Bingtuan Paramilitary troops according to some sources — backed by tanks, artillery and helicopter gunships and air strikes.

Initially, the freedom fighters East Turkistan Freedom Fighters in Baren - April 5, 1990 led by Zeydin Yusuf strived to hold out against the Chinese April 5, 2020 migration of Chinese colonists military, hoping that the world WASHINGTON DC frustrated the would hear of the uprising and already ,marginalized and send help. However, the The East Turkistan impoverished people of East Chinese army used heavy Government in Exile and the Turkistan. weapons and indiscriminately overwhelming majority of East slaughtered villagers. Turkistanis across our global The villagers of Baren finally Thousands of Uyghurs and diaspora commemorated the had enough. They’d just other Turkic people were 30th Anniversary of the Baren recently seen 250 local women brutally slaughtered, and after Revolution, also known as the robbed of their babies. Villagers 12 days, the rebellion was Baren Uprising or the Baren led by Zeydin Yusup went to the crushed. Massacre, which erupted on local Chinese government April 5, 1990 in East headquarter to protest China’s Following the Baren Uprising, Turkistan’s Akto County. decades long brutal campaign the Chinese government of colonization, genocide, and arrested over 7,600 people, Baren Township in Akto occupation. Chinese officials sentencing many to long prison County near Kashgar, saw answered their concerns by terms while executing others. weeks of Chinese state terror initially sending in the People’s The heroic sacrifices of the and brutality in the spring Armed Police to suppress the martyrs of the Baren 1990. As part of its deadly One demonstrations, however, Revolution serves as a symbol Child Policy of population several hundred Uyghurs, of our nation’s resolve to end control, China’s government Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz led by a China’s occupation and routinely forced millions of 26 year old young man named colonization of East Turkistan. women in Occupied East Zeydin Yusuf decided to take up Our martyrs sacrifices continue to serve as an inspiration for Turkistan to abort their babies. arms to and fight against Religious practices were Chinese occupation with the those striving restore East curtailed and the mass Turkistan’s independence.

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East Turkistan National Army Memorial Day (April 8) National Army Headquarters, including the Political Department, the War Department, the Military Administration Department, the Cadre Department, the Reconnaissance Department, and the Supply & Logistics Department.

Initially the Soviet Union had sent in and imbedded military advisors from Central Asia into Establishment of the East Turkistan National Army - April 8, 1945 the East Turkistan National Army to help train them and to April 8, 2020 liberate all of East Turkistan monitor their overall WASHINGTON DC (all of the territory that China movements. calls “Xinjiang”) from Chinese The East Turkistan occupation and defend it from Government in Exile and the future invasions. majority of East Turkistanis across our global diaspora The formal founding of the East commemorated East Turkistan Republic’s National Turkistan’s National Army Day Army was proclaimed with a in remembrance of the large military parade in Ghulja, founding of the East Turkistan the capital of the second East Republic’s National Army on Turkistan Republic April 8, 1945. (1944-1949), and the various Military officers of the East armed groups scattered across Turkistan National Army and Om November 7, 1944, that part of East Turkistan were President Ahmetjan Qasimi in Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and organized into seven regiments, 1946 Uzbeks in Ghulja revolted four independent battalions, against Chinese occupation of and one independent company. The East Turkistan National East Turkistan and declared General recruitment of all Army was armed with mostly independence as the East ethnic groups, except for the German weaponry which had Turkistan Republic on Chinese, were carried out by been captured by Soviet forces November 12, 1944. the East Turkistan National during World War II, along Army. with some Soviet weaponry, On January 5, 1945, the East and American weaponry Turkistan Republic reaffirmed At its height in 1946, the East captured from the Republic of its independence and laid out a Turkistan National Army had a China’s military forces that 9-point political declaration in total of 40,000 active duty were deployed to East which it declared a National troops and some 20,000 Turkistan. Much of the East Army comprising of all of East reserve troops. A number of Turkistan National Army’s Turkistan’s native ethnic departments were established initial weaponry were bought groups would be created to under the East Turkistan 18 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET FEATURE by the East Turkistan Republic succeeded in liberating much of and Kashgar which were under from the Soviet Union. the Aksu region by September, Chinese occupation. 1945 and setup a Kashgar The East Turkistan National Regiment to liberate Kashgar. On August 27, 1949, Major Army’s Artillery Division General Isaqbeg Munonov, the originally consisted of at least After hearing about the East Commander of the East 12 cannons, two armored Turkistan National Army’s Turkistan National Army and vehicles, and two tanks. A impending arrival to all of his deputy Brigadier General National Aviation Force was southern East Turkistan, Delilqan Sugurbayev were established with forty-two Uyghurs and other Turkic killed in what was initially airplanes that the East peoples across Kashgar, described as a “plane crash” in Turkistan National Army had Yarkent, and other places December 1949 and later captured at a Republic of China across East Turkistan began described as “execution by the (Nationalist China) airbase in to rebel against Chinese orders of Stalin” in 1989 Ghulja. occupation. The East Turkistan following the fall of the Soviet Republic was rapidly expanding Union. but that came to halt in October 1945.

On March 28, 1946, the East Turkistan Government Council issue Resolution No. 249 which declared April 8 as East Turkistan National Army armored units along the banks of Memorial Day for the Founding the Manas River - September of the East Turkistan National 1945 Army.

By July 1945, the East In mid 1946, the East Turkistan Turkistan National Army was National Army was downsized conducting a three-front-war to less than 15,000 troops and advancing against Republic of stationed only in the three China’s occupation forces in the regions directly under the rest of East Turkistan. On the control of the East Turkistan Brigadier General Sugurbayev Northern Front, the Republic as part of the “peace (left) and Major General East Turkistan National Army agreement” made with the Munonov (right). succeeded in liberating the Republic of China. Targabatay and Altay region by September of 1945. With the deterioration of The East Turkistan National relations with the Republic of Army was merged into China’s On the Central Front, the East China and the failure of the People’s Liberation Army’s 5th Turkistan National Army Republic of China to adhere to Army Corps following the succeeded in liberating all of the agreement, , the East Chinese Communist invasion territories west of the Manas Turkistan National Army began and occupation of East River. On the Southern Front, to expand once more in 1947 Turkistan on December 22, the East Turkistan National and launched a series of covert 1949. Army crossed the Tengri Tagh military operations, instigating (“”) mountains and rebellion in Turpan, Khotan,

19 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Mr. Shun Fujiki raises East March 10, 2020 James McGovern and Turkistan at UN Human WASHINGTON DC Republican Senator Marco Rights Council Rubio announced the Uyghur An East Turkistan delegation Forced Labor Prevention Act, which included the 2020 which would urge the US Women of Courage Awardee Government to take action Sayragul Sauytbay and ETGE against China’s use of forced Prime Minister Salih Hudayar labor of Uyghur and other held meetings with several Turkic peoples in East Congressional Offices The East Turkistan. The East Turkistan Turkistan delegation urged Government in Exile thanked March 9, 2020 members of Congress to raise Senator Rubio and GENEVA the East Turkistan issue and Congressman McGovern for urge Congress to recognize the introducing this bill that would Mr. Shun Fujiki a Japanese China’s atrocities in East ban Chinese goods made with activist called on the UN Turkistan as a genocide. forced labor from East Human Rights Council to urge Congressman Ted Yoho Turkistan. The ETGe also called Japan’s Government to cancel promised to raise the East on Senate Majority Leader its invitation of Chinese Turkistan issue in the US Mitch McConnell’s office to President Xi Jinping as a state Capitol and delivered on his schedule the Uyghur Act (S. guest, citing China’s mass promise the very next day. The 178) for voting as soon as internment of millions of East Turkistan Government in possible. Uyghurs in East Turkistan. He Exile thank’s Congressman also urged the UN Human Yoho for speaking out against Rights Council to call on China Growing fears China China’s brutal oppression of to release all the people in the executing Muslim Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and concentration camps. The East prisoners and harvesting others in Occupied East Turkistan Government in Exile their organs Turkistan. thanked Mr. Fujiki for raising the issue of China’s persecution March 11, 2020 New US bill could ban of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and LONDON import of Chinese good others in East Turkistan. The from East Turkistan due to ETGE urged Japan’s UK tabloid newspaper, the Sun, forced labor concerns Government to cancel its stated that there are growing invitation to Xi Jinping and fears that China is executing called on Japan to do more to muslim prisoners so they can support East Turkistan. harvest their organs to treat dying coronavirus patients. In recent weeks, tens of thousands East Turkistan Delegation of young Uyghur, Kazakh, meet with Members of US Kyrgyz, and other Turkic men Congress and women have been forcibly March 11, 2020 transferred to Chinese WASHINGTON provinces amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The A bipartisan group of China Tribunal for Organ politicians, including Harvesting had found that Democratic Representative China is indeed harvesting the 20 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET NEWS HIGHLIGHTS organs of Uyghur and other had been released from the Turkic prisoners. A Chinese ETGE PM Salih Hudayar concentration camps. However, whistleblower using the name on OANN investigative journalists found “Ms. Aili” had previously stated this was not the case. In many that she had witnessed 27 Saudi case the detainees were sent to nationals who were the prisons. recipient of “halal organs” forcibly removed from Muslims According to Bitter Winter’s in East Turkistan. new report, 5 prions in Urumchi’s Kaziwan sub-district expanded and added 20 new 5 ETGE urges Turkey to stop March 23, 2020 story buildings holding up to abuse and deportation of WASHINGTON DC 600 detainees per floor. Up to Uyghurs 60,000 Uyghur and other The East Turkistan Turkic detainees are believed to March 13, 2020 Government in Exile’s Prime he held in the 20 new prison ISTANBUL Minister, Salih Hudayar, spoke buildings alone. to One America News Network Turkish police detained several about China’s forced transfer of ETGE PM on the Dove Uyghurs and tortured them in Uyghurs and other Turkic an attempt to coerce them to peoples from East Turkistan March 25, 2020 sign documents stating that into Chinese provinces for slave WASHINGON DC they are “terrorists,” so they labor amidst the ongoing could be deported. The East Coronavirus Pandemic. The East Turkistan Turkistan Government in Exile Government in Exile’s Prime called on Turkey’s Foreign Prime Minister Hudayar urged Minister, Salih Hudayar, spoke Ministry to STOP its the US Government to enact to the Dove, a Christian media mistreatment and deportation sanctions against China and network, about China’s overall of Uyghur, Kazakh, and other called on President Trump to oppression and occupation in Turkic peoples from East Hold China Accountable for its East Turkistan. He discussed Turkistan that are fleeing crimes against humanity. the history of East Turkistan, China’s persecution. the mass interment of over 3 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and In June 2019, Turkey had China expanding prisons other Turkic peoples in deported Zinnetgul Tursun, a across East Turkistan concentration camps and the Uyghur woman and her two forced transfer and subsequent children by declaring them March 24, 2020 slave labor of Turkic peoples. Tajik nationals and giving them HONG KONG Tajik passports and sending to Prime Minister Hudayar stated Tajikistan against their will. Bitter Winter Magazine, a that, “we have been trying to They subsequently deported to magazine on religious liberty get the US Government to China occupied East Turkistan. and human rights in China, recognize China’s atrocities in reported that China is East Turkistan as a genocide The ETGE urged Ankara to expanding prions across East along with recognizing East remember its Turkic roots and Turkistan. In December 9, Turkistan as an Occupied where their forefathers 2019, Shohret Zakir, the puppet Country, getting equal originated from. Governor of East Turkistan, treatment on par with Tibet.” had stated that all detainees 21 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET NEWS HIGHLIGHTS The Uyghurs and the virus ETGE PM on America’s The East Turkistan & What is to be done? Voice Government in Exile thanked the Turkish companies for March 25, 2020 standing in solidarity with east NEW YORK Turkistan and for boycotting the imports of goods made in John Batchelor interviewed China into Turkey to protest ETGE Prime Minister Salih China’s genocide of Uyghurs Hudayar on the John Batchelor and other Turkic peoples. The Show about the current ETGE called on ALL companies situation of the Uyghurs amidst across the globe to do same. the coronavirus pandemic. He March 29, 2020 asked about the history of East WASHINGTON DC Turkistan and why China is Frontline Documentary on persecuting the Uyghurs. Prime Minister Hudayar spoke Uyghurs to the the Steve Gruber Show Prime Minister Hudayar spoke on America’s Voice about about the oppression Uyghurs China’s continued persecution have faced over the past of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, century as a result of Chinese and other Turkic peoples in occupation of East Turkistan. Occupied East Turkistan along He stated what China was with the CCP’s role in the doing in East Turkistan is 21st spread of the coronavirus. century colonialism and genocide. April 3, 2020 Turkish companies launch WASHINGTON DC embargo on Chinese goods BCI pulls out of East On April 3, the US Public Turkistan April 2, 2020 Broadcasting Corporation ISTANBUL (PBS)’s Frontline edition March 27, 2020 released a trailer of an EAST TURKISTAN 43 Turkish companies upcoming documentary on the announced that they started an Uyghurs. The Better Cotton Initiative “economic embargo” to protest (BCI) has suspend activities genocide in East Turkistan. The The East Turkistan with licensed farmers in 43 small business firms stated Government in Exile thanked Chinese Occupied East they will not be importing from PBS and Front Line for making Turkistan for the upcoming China due to its genocide of this documentary explaining cotton season (2020/21) over Uyghurs and other Turkic China’s brutal persecution of persistent reports of forced peoples in East Turkistan. Uyghurs and other Turkic labour. Their representative stated they peoples. The ETGE stated that had already gave up importing the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, The ETGE commended BCI for $957,000 worth of Chinese Uzbeks, and Tatar peoples of stopping it actives in East goods. They plan to expand East Turkistan are NOT Turkistan and called on other their protest to include over “Chinese Muslims.” The ETGE companies to do the same to 100 companies by July. urged PBS to correct the error help end slave labor. before airing the documentary on April 7, 2020. 22 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Report reveals Chinese persecution of Uyghur and Antonio Guterres to remove troops massacred entire other Turkic peoples in China from the UN Human Uyghur Villages Occupied East Turkistan. They Rights Council. The letter discussed the mass highlighted China’s brutal April 5, 2020 incarceration of millions of repression and mass interment HONG KONG Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and of Uyghurs and other Turkic other Turkic peoples along with peoples in East Turkistan. On the 30th Anniversary of the the forced transfer of hundreds Baren Revolution ( also known of thousands of East The ETGE thanked the US as the Baren Uprising or the Turkistanis into China for slave Senators and joined them in Baren Massacre), Bitter winter labor. calling on UN Secretary published a report highlighting General Guterres to remove how Chinese Troops Massacre Prime Minister Hudayar stated China from the UN Human entire Uyghur villages. that the current situation ion Rights Council. Veterans of the People’s Occupied East Turkistan is very Liberation Army shared their similar to the Jewish Holocaust experiences of they massacred of the 1930s and 1940s. He ETGE PM on Steve unarmed Uyghurs and children stated that, “for over 70 years Bannon’s War Room in 2013, along with a different China and its Communist Party incident where they killed all has been engaging in a brutal the Uyghurs in an entire village campaign of colonization, in East Turkistan. genocide, and occupation in East Turkistan.” The East Turkistan Government in Exile stated that the confessions of Chinese PLA US Senators call on UN veterans clearly reveal that Secretary General to China is not engaging in remove China from UN “counter terrorism,” but rather Human Rights Council April 11, 2020 the wholesale massacre of WASHINGTON DC entire Uyghur villages across Occupied East Turkistan. The Prime Minister Salih Hudayar ETGE called on the world to appeared as a special guest in a hold China accountable for its special edition on China’s crimes against humanity and Communist Party, titled must work to stop its ongoing “Descent into Hell,” on the genocide. War Room Pandemic hosted by Steve Bannon. April 7, 2020 ETGE PM on Ellis Martin WASHINGTON DC Prime Minister Hudayar stated Show that the CCP had effectively Seven US Senators including bought the silence of the April 6, 2020 Senator Rubio, Senator Cruz, Muslim world on the LOS ANGELES Senator Cornyn, Senator persecution of the Uyghurs. He Blackburn, Senator Inhofe, state that many people in East ETGE Prime Minister Salih Senator Cramer , and Senator Turkistan are currently in Hudayar spoke to the Ellis McSally signed onto a letter concentration camps or eve Martin Report about China’s urging UN Secretary General under constant surveillance. 23 EAST-TURKISTAN.NET NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Call to Hold China test low yield nuclear weapons China begins construction Accountable underground in East Turkistan. airport in of East April 14, 2020 Turkistan WASHINGTON DC East Turkistan supports President Trumps Halt on April 27, 2020 Prime Minister Salih Hudayar WHO Funding TASHKORGAN made a video message urging people across world to call on April 17, 2020 The Chinese government world leaders to hold China WASHINGTON DC announced the construction of accountable for its crimes a new airport in the Pamir against humanity and make On Tuesday, April 14, 2020, mountains bordering China pay for the world’s United States President Donald Afghanistan and Tajikistan. enormous losses. He stated that Trump announced that the US ETGE Prime Minister Hudayar the people of the world must do would halt funding for the stated that this was a part of everything in their power to World Health Organization for China’s National Defense boycott China and “STOP 60-90 days for its handling of Strategy & its goal to “prevent feeding the EVIL Chinese the coronavirus pandemic the creation of East Turkistan.” Empire that seeks to destroy which erupted in November of He stated that China is rapidly humanity.” 2019. building new airports across East Turkistan and settling US State Department says The East Turkistan Chinese colonists in remote China may be conducting Government in Exile fully border areas. A total of 30 secret nuclear tests supports and applauds airports are to be operating by President Donald Trump’s 2025. April 15, 2020 policies pushing back against WASHINGTON DC China and encourages the USCIRF report calls for United States to undertake imposing sanctions on The State Department is more actions to protect the China’s officials and concerned that China might be rights of people all across the agencies secretly conducting nuclear world, including the people of tests in secret, in violation of an Occupied East Turkistan. April 28, 2020 international agreement WASHINGTON DC banning such tests. Holocaust Memorial Day On April 28, 2020, the United Between 1964-1996, China April 20, 2020 States Commission on conducted a total of 46 nuclear WASHINGTON DC International Religious tests which directly killed an Freedom (USCIRF) released its estimated 750,000 people in The ETGE issued a statement 2020 Annual Report which East Turkistan according a Dr. commemorating the Holocaust highlighted China’s mass Jun Takada, Japanese medical Memorial Day and urged the interment of millions of Professor at the Sapporo world y to uphold its promise of Uyghurs and other Turkic Medical University. It is ‘Never Again’ and stop China’s peoples in an estimated 1,300 believed that following the brutal genocide in Occupied concentration camps. The signing of the 1996 East Turkistan where over 3 report recommend the US Comprehensive Test Ban million Uyghurs and other Government to sanction Treaty, China has continued to Turkic people are locked up in Chinese officials and agencies. Concentration Camps.

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The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) is the democratically elected body which represents the interests of East Turkistan and its people. Therefore, it is the voice of East Turkistan and its people.

The Voice of East Turkistan is the official bi-monthly journal of the East Turkistan Government-in- Exile, which seeks to inform governments across the globe world along with organizations, think tanks, researchers, and the public masses about the truth regarding the situation in East Turkistan. The Voice of East Turkistan seeks to provide the best information regarding East Turkistan, the activities of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, and the East Turkistani diaspora.

East Turkistan Government in Exile 1325 G Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005 USA Phone: (202) 599-2244, Ext: 1 Email: [email protected]

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