2009 Urumqi Massacre: Uyghurs demand action to end China's genocide, will rally from White House to State Department
2009 Urumqi Massacre: The Turkistan government in exile has announced a march regarding the Urumqi massacre that took place in the year 2009. The East Turkistan National Movement and the East Turkistan National Fund will also cooperate in this march. This march will start from the White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC and will go to the State Department 2201 C St NW Washington DC.
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The East Turkistan Government in Exile has organized a march from the White House to the State Department in Washington DC on Friday in collaboration with the East Turkistan National Movement and the East Turkistan National Fund.
This rally is organized with the view to commemorate the 2009 Urumqi massacre and urge lasting measures against continuous colonization campaign, Uyghur genocide, and occupation by China in East Turkistan (presently known as the Xinjiang province of China).
It will start from the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, and then proceed to the State Department at 2201 C St NW, Washington, DC.
According to ETGE, the organization wrote on X, it is a march for colonization, genocide, and occupation being faced by the Uyghur population and other ethnic groups in East Turkistan.
Their demands are pointedly centered on the need for a special coordinator for East Turkistan/Uyghur issues within the US Department of State.
This event urges the US government to assume its moral and legal obligations in preventing and punishing the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in China-occupied East Turkistan.
The organizers are pressing for East Turkistan's official recognition as an occupied country, just like Tibet. They insist that the US needs to fulfill its moral and legal responsibilities in addressing alleged genocide and crimes against humanity by China in East Turkistan. On the 103rd anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on Monday, there has been an equally strong backlash by human rights organizations and ethnic groups in response to alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The Swedish Uyghur Committee later wrote on social media about the repulsive legacy of the CCP and gleamed that it had "ruthlessly invaded, occupied, and colonized" East Turkistan. The post further alleged severe human rights violations by the Chinese government against millions of East Turkistanis include the Uyghurs.
