The legislature on Tuesday last week passed a resolution recognizing China’s crimes against humanity and genocide against Uighurs. This is not only progress on recognizing the abuses of the ethnic minority, but also a historic event in Uighur-Taiwanese ties.
For 70 years, Uighurs have been oppressed under Chinese occupation, while Taiwanese have been living under the threat of it. Uighurs have paid a heavy price due to attempts to regain independence, and Taiwanese are relentlessly fighting to preserve their independence. Thus, Taiwanese and Uighurs have similar dreams and worries.
Through the resolution, the legislature fulfilled its historic role, and we would like to express our gratitude on behalf of all Uighurs.
However, what is happening to Uighurs in China is beyond human comprehension. The world might think that cutting the skirts of women and plucking the beards of men in the name of eradicating religious radicalism can only happen in a tribal country; it cannot imagine such actions in China, which claims to have a 5,000-year-old culture. Europeans would find it difficult to believe that China’s “pair up and become relatives” campaign, in which Han Chinese cadres sleep in the houses of Uighurs, could be true. They would think that the cadres would refuse to carry out such an irrational and immoral act.
The more skilled Chinese become at carrying out such inhumane actions, the more skilled and experienced they become at concealing them.
Although China’s official name for East Turkestan is “Xinjiang,” literally “new border,” Chinese officials do not hesitate to say that it has been a part of China since ancient times. China also calls concentration camps “vocational training centers” and juvenile prisons “angelic schools.”
Taiwanese, who share a language with China, have the most complete understanding of those word games and the terrible orders in leaked documents, such as the Xinjiang Police Files.
The common enemy of Uighurs and Taiwanese is a regime that hid the initial outbreak of COVID-19 to protect its honor and thus allowed the pandemic to happen, killing more than 6 million people worldwide. China seeks support from all dictators worldwide to change the international order, and eventually seeks to corrupt all officials and enslave all people worldwide.
On the one hand, this is good news for Uigurs and Taiwanese, as it makes China not only their enemy, but the enemy of all humanity. Except for Taiwanese, Uighurs, Tibetans and Mongolians, there is a lack of awareness of this danger in the international community, including in the US.
We believe that humanity will one day realize this danger and will not leave us alone. We will defeat China’s state terrorism.
China is not committing genocide from a position of strength, it does so because its multinational policies have failed, and Beijing cannot find a way to create unity of the state on the foundation of peace and justice. The Uighur genocide marks the beginning of the decline of imperial China and the Chinese Communist Party.
The legislature’s decision is yet more proof that truth is stronger than power, and a sign that China will fall. Exploring a genocide and preparing a report is not an easy process. Uighurs will remember the bravery of the 15 authors of the report, including Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇).
Orkesh Dolet, Nury Turkel, Dolqun Isa, Omer Qanat, Ilshat Hesen, Ilham Mahmut, Umit Agahi, Mihrigul Tursun have acted as ambassadors for East Turkestan and introduced the knowledge of the Uighur genocide to Taiwan. History will not forget these heroes.
Finally, on behalf of Uighurs whose voices have been silenced through the ongoing genocide in East Turkestan, we applaud the legislature’s Uighur resolution.
Rebiya Kadeer is a former president of the World Uyghur Congress. Kok Bayraq is a Uighur-American observer.
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