Crimean Tatar NGOs appealed to the President, Cabinet Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine demanding to react to the events that are happening during two weeks on the territory of East Turkestan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of People's Republic of China, XUAR PRC).

NGOs’ representatives said about it at the press conference, July 15 in Simferopil, QHA reports.

“A number of Crimean Tatar NGOs, holding the brief meeting, accepted an appeal to the Ukrainian authorities in connection with the genocide unleashed by the PRC against the indigenous people of East Turkestan” – the president of the Research and Support of Indigenous Peoples of Crimea Fund (RSIPCF) Dr. Nadir Bekir has said.

NGOs representatives of “Azatlıq”, “Arqadaş”, Crimean Tatar Youth Centre, “Milli Hareket Partisi”, “Milli Firqa”, “Namus” and RSIPCF set up a number of demands to the Ukrainian authorities in their appeal: to use the status of Ukraine as a member of the UN and other international organizations to stop the genocide against the indigenous people of East Turkestan in China, propose to the international organizations to conduct an independent investigation of events in East Turkestan at and if it is necessary, to make the plaintiff on charge with genocide against the Uyghurs and other ethnic groups of East Turkestan at the International Court of Justice against China, to stop resettlement of the migrants from China to the territory of Ukraine and Crimea particularly, as well as to provide humanitarian aid to all victims of violence in East Turkistan.

“As the other Turkic peoples of this region, the Uyghurs are not foreigners for us, they are our blood brothers, they are Muslims. As far as in this situation when it says about fierce genocide of the 21st century, still, we do not see the effective reactions neither the international community and, unfortunately, nor leadership of Ukraine” - N. Bekir commented.

By QHA

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