URUMQI: The notorious World Uyghur Congress (WUC), a self-proclaimed “grassroots human rights organization advocating for the Uygurs in China,” which is actually a US-funded and directed separatist network, has recently been found to be in close contact with the separatists on the island of Taiwan.
On the evening of April 25, WUC hosted a so-called “Uygur-Han international online video seminar,” inviting several Taiwan separatists. As the media reported, their discussion mainly focused on their stand against the governance of the Communist Party of China in order to undermine the unity of all ethnic groups in China under the guise of “human rights.”
Dolkun Isa, head of WUC, also delivered a pre-recorded video message to the foundation event of “Taiwan Parliament Group for Uyghur” on April 23, which was founded by a member of Taiwan’s legislative authorities Freddy Lim, joined by a group of 30 members from the legislative authorities in the Taiwan region.
In the video, Dolkun Isa said he expected to “visit Taiwan again in the near future.”
In Turkey, a court caused public anger among Chinese people for refusing China’s extradition request for Abudukadir Yapuquan, a prominent terrorist from the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), and further removing judicial control measures and outbound restrictions on him, the Xinhua News Agency reported on April 13.
The ETIM is a terrorist organization listed by the UN Security Council and is recognized as such by Turkey, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a press briefing in April. Abudukadir Yapuquan, who has plotted terrorist attacks on Chinese territory many times, is one of the initiators of the ETIM, Zhao noted. In Australia, the Australian Alert Service, the weekly publication of the Australian Citizens Party, revealed that local anti-China politicians colluded with the East Turkistan Australian Association (ETAA) in defaming China in an article it published online on April 21.
Titled Australian politicians back ‘East Turkistan’ terrorism apologists, the article pointed out that this terrorist group is “loudly backing the current campaign for Australia to fall in behind its Five Eyes partners the USA and Canada and label China’s treatment of its Uygur minority as ‘genocide’.” Australian authorities should not take ETAA’s claims of “genocide” and “persecution” at face value, “but at least demand real proof,” the article noted.
Apart from the WUC, ETIM and ETAA, many Xinjiang-related separatist and terrorist groups, under the guise of “protecting human rights” and “safeguarding the interests of the Uygur people,” get financial or political support from some countries and regions who have common political interests with the anti-China politicians, said Xu Jianying, a research fellow at Chinese Borderland Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The recent barrage of attacks on China’s Xinjiang region in the Western world, for instance, is the result of collusion between Xinjiang separatists and Western anti-China forces in an attempt to defame China, observers pointed out.Make waves
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
