The prime minister of the East Turkestan government in exile, also known as Xinjiang, compared the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) treatment of the Uyghur people to what the Jewish people suffered during the Holocaust.
“The CCP demonized the Uyghurs, calling them ‘enemies of the people and the state,’ people with an ‘ideological virus’ and ‘weeds that had to be sprayed and killed,’ just as the Nazis demonized Jews and other victims of the Holocaust,” East Turkestan government-in-exile Prime Minister Salih Hudayar told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF).
Hudayar said the Uyghurs have been “forcibly indoctrinated, subjected to forced medication, starvation, rape, organ harvesting, torture and even death in the same way that millions of Jews and others were sent to concentration camps, tortured and murdered.”
Hudayar described the CCP as a fascist regime that uses force and terror to rule its people, saying that “both the CCP and the Nazis emphasized ‘national rejuvenation’ and extreme fascist ideologies of supremacy as the basis for legitimizing their atrocities, including genocide against ethnic and religious groups that are not Chinese in the case of the CCP, and not German in the case of the Nazis.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the State Department determined that the CCP committed crimes against humanity, including genocide, against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang province, according to a January 19 press release.
“The CCP’s policy is deliberate and calculated to assimilate and eradicate the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in order to transform the population of East Turkestan into a homogeneous Han region. Unfortunately, in the case of both the Holocaust and the current Uyghur genocide, the world did not act in time to prevent the atrocities despite credible evidence that they were happening,” Hudayar told the DCNF.
Hudayar said countries must recognize the CCP’s genocide in East Turkestan, also known as Xinjiang province. He added that the United States should raise the issue at the United Nations and that the world should boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
The CCP has burned bodies in an attempt to hide evidence, and the prime minister believes that hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other minorities have been killed since 2017, Hudayar told the DCNF.
This article was originally published in the Daily Caller on January 26, 2021.
Author: Kaylee Greenlee.
