The East Turkistan Government in Exile, which represents the oppressed Uyghur and other Turkic communities under Chinese communist rule, condemned Palestinian leaders on Wednesday for meeting with dictator Xi Jinping and endorsing the genocide of Muslims in the region.
Here is the Palestinian statement given in China by Abbas:
“Palestine upholds the one-China principle and supports all efforts made by the Chinese government to achieve national reunification … and condemns external interference in China’s internal affairs including Hong Kong and Xinjiang-related affairs,” Abbas affirmed, according to China’s state-run Global Times newspaper.
Here is the harsh Uyghur reaction:
“The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) strongly condemns the recent strategic partnership between Palestine and China, which shamelessly supports China’s ongoing colonization, genocide, and occupation campaign in East Turkistan,” the organization said in a statement published on Wednesday, following the meeting between Xi and Abbas.
The group described the Palestinian leadership’s description of the Uyghur genocide as a “counter-terror” operation and an “internal” Chinese issue as “a grotesque distortion of reality” that “aids Chinese imperialism.”
“The East Turkistani people strongly condemn Palestine’s support for China’s colonization, genocide, and occupation in East Turkistan,” President Ghulam Yaghma of the East Turkistan Government in Exile said in a statement, adding:
The Arab world generally, beyond the Palestinian Authority, has done little to condemn China’s ongoing genocide of Muslims in East Turkistan. On the contrary, many leaders in the Arab world have endorsed the operation to exterminate the indigenous peoples of the region. In January, a group of Islamic “scholars” representing the World Muslim Communities Council visited occupied East Turkistan and applauded the elimination of Islam and repression of Muslims there.
Source: Breitbart