The harsh repression of ethnic Uyghurs in China’s far western Xinjiang region continues even after the United States and other countries recognized the atrocities as genocide, according to Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan government-in-exile.
According to estimates by researchers, the Chinese regime has detained more than one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in internment camps in Xinjiang, where they are subjected to torture, rape, forced labor, and political indoctrination by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In 2020, the Trump administration declared Beijing’s repression of Uyghurs a genocide.
“The U.S. recognition of the genocide has led to similar recognitions by nearly a dozen parliaments in the E.U., the United Kingdom, Canada … and so forth. It’s also brought more awareness on what’s happening to the Uyghurs and the other Turkic peoples of Eastern Turkistan,” Hudayar told “China in Focus” on NTD, sister media outlet of The Epoch Times, on Jan 18….