Both the Fifth East Turkistan National Unity Council Meeting and the 14th World East Turkistan Brotherhood Meeting are taking place in Istanbul from from October 1st to 4th.
Uyghur Genocide
International recognition and major reports
Swedish PEN announced that it would be giving Uyghur writer Parhat Tursun the Tucholsky prize, named after the German writer Kurt Tucholsky who fled Nazi Germany for Sweden. It is awarded annually to a persecuted or exiled writer, with previous recipients including Salman Rushdie and Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich.
In response to a report that warned of potential crimes against humanity, the United States on Monday requested that the UN Human Rights Council discuss the issue of rights breaches in the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (that Uyghurs call East Turkistan).
Olaf Scholz urged China to implement UN recommendations on Uyghur human rights.
On Monday, September 19, a group of Uyghur camp survivors started a hunger strike in front of the White House in Washington DC in solidarity with Uyghurs starving in the Chinese-occupied East Turkistan due to China’s zero covid policies.
Western states are calculating whether to call for an independent commission to investigate human rights abuses against the Uyghurs by China, the Guardian reports. If established, it would test the amount of Chinese influence at the UN.
Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, where he will meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports.
The book, published by Optimum Publishing International tells the story of Benedict Roger’s fight against human rights abuses by China and its neighboring countries, Myanmar and North Korea. The book describes the Chinese human rights situation and what the free world should do about it.
Turkey is home to the largest Uyghur diaspora in the world. The Muslim minority group, which is persecuted in China, sees the Turks as “cousins”.
This year Chinese companies are producing one million tons of corn in the Sanji Hui Autonomous Prefecture of the so-called Uyghur Autonomous Region (East Turkistan).