Washington: The East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM) is set to hold a demonstration outside the US White House to mark 76 years of Chinese Communist Party’s invasion of East Turkistan in 1949. The event, scheduled on Sunday to observe a ‘National Day of Mourning for East Turkistan’, is to remind the world of the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, referred by Uyghur diaspora as ‘East Turkistan’ that is believed to be under the occupation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The Uyghurs, an ethnic minority group in China are predominantly Turkic-speaking Muslims, officially recognised as one of the 55 ethnic minority groups. Uyghurs are predominantly inhabitants of the Xinjiang region that was incorporated into People’s Republic of China (PRC) in

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