Today, we are here to make China accountable for its crimes against humanity and genocide in East Turkistan, Tibet, and other occupied territories, joining the Stand4Uyghurs international campaign which is being brought out by 100 plus Muslim organizations, individuals, activists, and academics, respected names of all communities around the world with one voice and one stance. This campaign is to demonstrate clear protest and motive justice and freedom-loving people to take action against the Chinese genocide.
We, the East Turkistan people, the international union of East Turkistan Organizations, and the East Turkistan New Generation Movement gathered today in this historical place Sarachane Park, Fatih Istanbul with our brothers and sisters from different communities with the same aim and belief to make a definite, strong and comprehensive expression of rejection against Chinese genocide and to call on international communities, organizations, countries, and every single person to take action to stop this genocide. We are saying that Stand for Uyghurs to yell out to China, Stop The Uyghur Genocide Now!
The contemporary situations of East Turkistan are that East Turkistan people are suffering from assimilation, massacres, genocide, and other human rights violations for more than 70 years under Chinese autocracy. More than 3 million are detained in concentration camps for no reason. China is implementing in name of the war on terrorism and extremism a systematic genocide which is the last form of Chinese occupation policy targeting Uyghur, Kazak, Kyrgyz, and other Ethnic groups to eliminate them by mass killing, brainwashing, sinicization, sterilization, family separation, life-long imprisonment, organ harvesting, sexual harassment, forced labor, and other countless crimes. Those crimes are evidently genocide according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Many human rights reports, witnesses by concentration camps survivors, and leaked documents like “Xin Jiang Police Files” have already demonstrated to the world with undeniable details that China is committing the Genocide in occupied East Turkistan. The Uyghur Tribunal which is held in London last year ruled that the Chinese Authority under Xi Jin Ping Administration is guilty of its Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in East Turkistan.
All crimes beforementioned are based on Islamophobia and racism as the ideological roots. Being a Muslim, being a Uygur, being a Kazak or Kyrgyz, it is a guilty excuse for China to kill you, arrest you and you are the threat that should be eliminated. Concentration camps, Islam ban, sinicization, sterilization, assimilation policies, and demographic change are the main methods of genocide. As it is reported, there are more than thousands of concentration camps where millions of innocent people are detained. The mother languages are banned, properties are seized and given to Chinese settlers, and Children are separated by force and adopted by Chinese settlers or imprisoned in children camps aka Angle Nests. More than 20 thousand mosques are destroyed or converted into nightclubs. Everything related to Islam or cultural identity is determined as signs of Terrorism and demolished. The population of local people is lowered when the number of Chinese settlers is increasing. Yes, it is totally unacceptable crime, a massacre, and a genocide. When the international community is fighting against Islamophobia, racism, and hate crimes, we should accept the reality that the Chinese regime is the most racist, Islamophobic, and autocratic power in the world.
I am very glad to witness such a great day, that the justice-loving people, Muslims around the world stood for us, and stood by Uyghurs to stop the Chinese genocide. But for creating real impact, as the immediate and necessary action, the Made in China production, especially the forced labor production should be boycotted. The Uyghurs in East Turkistan, brothers and sisters, children and seniors are being forced to work as slaves in Chinese and international manufacturing facilities, concentration camps, and cotton farms. We should boycott those bloody production to not participate in the crime with China. If China is slaughtering and oppressing East Turkistan people, it is doing that for building its Chinese dream the New Silk Road, starting from East Turkistan to reach Europe. The economic interest and political interest with expansionist ideology and strategy are the main motivation behind this ongoing genocide and continued occupation. So, China will stop, when it realized that the Bloody Made in China productions are not welcomed by the world who respects Human Rights, Human dignity, and freedom, boycotted by The Muslims who believe in Muslim solidarity. I call on international action to boycott Chinese production, especially forced labor production.
In the end, we call on international companies, factories, production chains, and product certification bodies to take action against forced labor, and close production facilities in East Turkistan. We demand international organizations, human rights institutions, and every independent state to express clearly its position against China’s ongoing genocide in the international area, and recognize that what is happening in Turkistan is a genocide; take the necessary measure to end China’s atrocities and colonialism in East Turkistan in order to rescue the millions of people lives there and maintain the international peace and justice. Also, we demand related governments to not extradite Idris Hasan and other Uyghur refugees to China where they will face death and inhumane treatment.
In the end, we call on international companies, factories, production chains, and product certification bodies to take action against forced labor, and close production facilities in East Turkistan. We demand international organizations, human rights institutions, and every independent state to express clearly its position against China’s ongoing genocide in the international area, and recognize that what is happening in Turkistan is a genocide; take the necessary measure to end China’s atrocities and colonialism in East Turkistan in order to rescue the millions of people lives there and maintain the international peace and justice. Also, we demand related governments not extradite Idris Hasan and other Uyghur refugees to China where they will face death and inhumane treatment.
I finish my word to thank again in name of the East Turkistani People and my organization to our brothers and sisters, organizations, and press representatives to gather here to support us. We appreciate Islam21C which is the key actor and coordinator of this international campaign.
