The East Turkistan government-in-exile, an organization representing the occupied region where the Chinese Communist Party is currently engaging in genocide, demanded this weekend that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issue an arrest warrant for Xi Jinping in recognition of that genocide.
The International Criminal Court, an international agency with no enforcement mechanism, issued a similar warrant on Friday against Russian leader Vladimir Putin, accusing him of war crimes in Ukraine. The ICC specifically cited reports of forced mass transfers of children from Ukraine to Russian-occupied territories as a war crime under international legal standards.
“International law prohibits the occupying authorities from transferring civilians from the territory in which they live to other areas,” said the President of the International Criminal Court, Judge Piotr Hofmansky, in a statement announcing the arrest warrant.
Russia is not a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which established the ICC and gave it jurisdiction over state parties.
The ICC has not taken any similar action against Xi in China despite years of exhaustive evidence pointing to Xi’s expropriation thousands From their homes in East Turkestan, as well as Tibet and Inner Mongolia, children are sent to be taught in “boarding schools” away from their parents, not taught their native language or culture, and forbidden to practice religion. China is also not a signatory to the Rome Statute, although genocide is widely considered a peremptory norm of international law (Imperative rules) and is therefore widely considered to be among the crimes over which all courts have jurisdiction (universal jurisdiction).
Legal definition of genocide lists As an act of genocide, “the forcible transfer of children of one group to another group.”
Xi arrived in Moscow on Monday morning to meet with Putin and other high-ranking Russian officials:
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is in Moscow for the first time since the start of the Ukraine war.# TNS Shorts pic.twitter.com/GJX0poH7bT
TimesNow March 20, 2023
The East Turkistan government-in-exile, along with the national East Turkestan Movement, this weekend requested that the International Criminal Court issue an arrest warrant for Xi based on evidence surrounding the kidnapping of children as well as the mass incarceration of millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in concentration camps; Destroying historical sites in the area such as mosques and cemeteries. the enslavement of an unknown number of civilians in factories and cotton plantations; and the forced sterilization of women in entire villages in the region, among other crimes.
“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 the Uighurs and other Turkic peoples,” Prime Minister Salih Hudayar of the East Turkestan government-in-exile He said In a statement on Saturday. “The ICC must uphold justice and fulfill its ‘never again’ commitment by investigating the ongoing genocide and arresting Xi Jinping for his direct role in this Holocaust-like genocide in the 21st century”:
the @tweet It must uphold justice and fulfill its obligation #Never again Through an ongoing investigation #Uyghur Genocide In East Turkestan and arrest #XiJinping for his direct role in the Holocaust-like genocide of the 21st century.#InvestigateChina #ArrestXiJinping@tweet pic.twitter.com/af4wsdbYJD
– Salih Hudayar (Salih Hudayar) March 18, 2023
The two East Turkestan groups were already required Such an arrest in 2020, where evidence was presented to claim Xi’s arrest in a wide-ranging complaint that suggested some of the offenses included the illegal rendition of Turks who had traveled abroad back to China, suggesting not only China was involved — something the criminal court does not have. international. Official jurisdiction over – but Cambodia and Tajikistan. Later reports also indicated government involvement Kazakhstan And Pakistan In these transnational crimes.
the international legal community for a long time Visible Opposition to genocide Imperative rulesor a peremptory rule granting universal jurisdiction to all courts, although neither the ICC nor any other court in the world has shown interest in handling Xi’s case on genocide charges.
A similar chain of events occurred in 2021 when Xi visited Argentina for that year’s G20 summit. Two Uyghur organizations, the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, began the process of filing genocide charges against Xi and requesting his arrest in Buenos Aires, but no such arrest occurred.
Since visiting Argentina, a raft of evidence has emerged that directly implicates President Xi in the genocide of the Uyghurs. In late 2021, the Uyghur Tribunal, an independent court of experts that met to discuss the legal case for genocide, found that the evidence did indeed indicate that the Chinese government was guilty “beyond reasonable doubt” of the crime. Using forced sterilization to reduce the number of Uyghurs.
A series of internal Chinese government documents have been leaked as part of what are known as the “Xinjiang Police Files” (“Xinjiang” is the Chinese Communist Party’s name for East Turkestan) that specifically named Xi as the architect of the genocide. The documents, published in mid-2022 by researcher Adrian Zenz and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, included multiple speeches by Communist Party leaders attributing to Xi personally a plan to “break the bloodlines” of the people of East Turkestan, converting them into Mandarin. – They’re talking communists.
In a 2018 speech, for example, Xinjiang Secretary of the Communist Party of Xinjiang Chen Quanguo — who was purged last year of important party leadership — described the plan to build concentration camps for ethnic minorities as “the Party Central Committee’s strategy for governing Xinjiang with Comrade Xi Jinping.” in essence.” Chen described the camps, which the government calls “vocational training centres”, with the idea of the “general secretary” (Shi).
Then-Chinese Public Security Minister Zhao Kejie also referred to Xi in another letter leaked as part of the Xinjiang police files of a plan to “break genealogies, break roots, break ties, and break the origins” of the people of the region.
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