12/11/2025
Today Marks the Independence Day of East Turkistan
After 1884, the Qing Dynasty invaded East Turkistan and renamed it Xinjiang Province, meaning “New Territory.”
In 1933, the people of East Turkistan established the First East Turkistan Islamic Republic, successfully resisting and defeating the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) forces at that time. Later, in 1944, following another successful resistance against the Kuomintang, the Second East Turkistan Republic was founded.
However, as a result of political conspiracies among global superpowers, Communist China invaded East Turkistan in October 1949, completely colonizing the region. In 1955, the People’s Republic of China renamed the territory the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, effectively erasing East Turkistan’s independent identity.
Over the past 141 years, the people of East Turkistan have endured systematic oppression and repeated attempts to erase their national and cultural identity. From the Qing Dynasty to the Kuomintang, and later the Chinese Communist regime, successive rulers have imposed policies of mass killings, forced assimilation, sterilization, forced marriages, and large-scale illegal Han Chinese migration intended to alter the region’s demographic structure.
Despite this ongoing genocide, the people of East Turkistan have never abandoned their struggle for freedom and national liberation. The independence of East would not only restore justice and dignity to its people but also bring stability, prosperity, and peace to neighboring countries, while helping to counter China’s growing hegemony across the globe.