Washington DC, Feb. 27 -- The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has called on the international community, including relevant United Nations bodies, to take coordinated and principled action in response to what it described as the continued institutionalisation of a coercive security and control system in East Turkistan, also known as Xinjiang, which it refers to as an occupied territory under Chinese rule.

In a statement posted on X, the ETGE said the latest developments come as Beijing's "People's War on Terror" and "Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism", launched in May 2014, approach their twelfth year in 2026. The group alleged that these campaigns function as official justifications for policies it characterises a...