A group representing the Uyghur people is calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring charges against Chinese President Xi Jinping after the court issued an arrest warrant for him Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“We call on the International Criminal Court to act and hold Chinese leader Xi Jinping accountable for the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkish peoples,” said Prime Minister Salih Hudayar of Turkey’s eastern government-in-exile in a statement press release from Saturday.
“The International Criminal Court must uphold justice and fulfill its commitment of ‘never again’ by investigating the ongoing genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his direct role in this Holocaust-like genocide in the 21st century.”
The press release reflects what government officials around the world and pro-Uyghur activists have been claiming for years regarding China’s “ongoing campaign of mass internment, forced labour, forced sterilization and enforced family separation against Turkish ethnic groups in East Turkistan, which has been official since 2021 by the US.” – Declared genocide by the governments and parliaments of nearly a dozen Western nations.
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The press release comes in the same week of the ICC issue an arrest warrant for Putin and Russian official Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova for their alleged involvement in war crimes during the invasion of Ukraine.
The ICC said that Putin is “allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and unlawful transfer of population (children) from the occupied territories of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.”
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova rejected the arrest warrant shortly after it was issued.
“Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and has no obligations under it,” Zakharova said. “Russia is not cooperating with this body and any ‘prescriptions’ for arrests coming from the International Court of Justice are legally null and void for us.”
The exile Uyghurs’ press release sets out similar allegations of forced deportations of ethnic Turks.
“In June 2021, lawyers for the ETGE and ETNM submitted additional evidence to the ICC that the Chinese government had a policy of rounding up and forcibly deporting Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic peoples from outside China, including ICC member states such as neighboring Tajikistan, back to China East Turkestan (“Xinjiang”), where they are subjected to genocide and crimes against humanity,” the press release said.
“The new evidence showed that more than 3,000 Uyghurs were forcibly deported from Tajikistan and another 4,000 from Kyrgyzstan.”
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In addition, the press release said that over 3 million Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Turks were taken to detention camps and that over 880,500 Uyghur and other Turkish children were forcibly separated from their families.
Fox News Digital has come forward China US Consulate and the ICC for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
“The ICC is currently reviewing all the evidence we have submitted to decide whether to open an ICC investigation,” Hudayar told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“We are in contact with prosecutors regarding the evidence presented and request that prosecutors act immediately to open an ICC investigation and hold those responsible accountable.”
Xi is planned fly to Russia next week to meet with Putin for a meeting where the Kremlin says the two leaders will discuss “issues of advancing the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between Russia and China.”
Source : news.yahoo.com