East Turkistan and Tibetan Groups Demand UN Action

The East Turkistan Government in Exile, East Turkistan National Movement, Tibetan Youth Congress, and other Tibetan activists demonstrated outside United Nations headquarters in New York on July 13. The groups demanded UN action on what they described as China’s genocide, colonial occupation, and destruction of East Turkistan and Tibet. The protest followed a UN General Assembly debate on preventing genocide and came 11 days after Pawo Lobga Rangzen’s self-immolation outside the UN. Organizers urged support for an ICC investigation, targeted sanctions, repeal of China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Law, and placing East Turkistan and Tibet on the UN decolonization agenda.