Chinese University's İmmoral Propaganda on East Turkistan: Report Not Reflecting the Truth
On January 1, the Institute for Communication and Borderland Governance at Jinan University in China released a report titled "Victims and Survivors of Terrorism in China: An Oral History”. The report focuses on the details of the attack that took place in Kargilik district of Kashgar in 2012 and includes interviews with people who identified themselves as "victims". According to the information obtained, in 2012, 8 people in Kargilik district attacked the Chinese government's place in the region as a reaction to China's settlement of Han Chinese in the region and discrimination between the people of the region and Han Chinese immigrants, and 13 Uyghurs and 8 Chinese lost their lives as a result of the incident.
This report, published 11 years after the incident by the Institute for Communication and Borderland Governance at China's Jinen University, is a plain lie and a distortion of the truth. The methodology of the report shows that the people interviewed were all members of the Chinese Communist Party, security personnel or Han Chinese who were resettled in the area. We should also take into account that the report was published by an institute of a university funded by the Chinese government. All the content published by this institute reveals that instead of producing knowledge, the institute is engaged in the propaganda of the Chinese communist party and works to legitimize China's repressive and occupation policies in Tibet, East Turkistan, and Inner Mongolia.
China has recently been organizing statements, reports, and conferences to manipulate global public opinion, to legitimize the state terror imposed on the people of the region in East Turkestan, and to distort the events that took place against China's oppression policies, making itself look like a victim.
The state terror policies are a known fact that the Chinese regime implemented in East Turkistan. The intensive surveillance and control system it has established on the people of the region makes the normal life of the people difficult. The Chinese regime, on the grounds of "security" in the region, takes extremely harsh measures and carries out wide-ranging arrests and extrajudicial executions, and even interferes in the private lives of individuals.
The objectivity and morality of a report published in a country where state terrorism is at its most severe and where the media and broadcasting are run exclusively by the communist party must be questioned. This situation becomes more evident when coupled with severe restrictions on individuals' fundamental freedoms, arbitrary detentions, censorship and other human rights violations. The international community has repeatedly condemned this situation and called on the Chinese government to respect human rights and stop its repressive policies in the region.
China's genocidal policies in East Turkestan are still ongoing. As a result of these policies, millions of East Turkistanis have lost their lives, and their families have been torn apart, isolated, and forced into exile, while China's propaganda efforts to hide this tragedy and blame it on the people of East Turkistan are unacceptable.
International Union of East Turkistan organizations
23/01/2024
