Press Release

East Turkistan: Blackout to Exterminate an Entire People

In East Turkistan, mothers are arrested, children are separated from their families, and minors are sterilized... In East Turkistan, a people is being slaughtered and exterminated in silence (East Turkistan News Agency, 09/12/2025).

No one is unaware of the criminal Chinese government's efforts in East Turkistan to erase the identity of its Muslim people, suppressing women, oppressing them, preventing them from wearing their clothes and performing their prayers, and separating children from their families to brainwash them, feed them its atheist culture, and turn them away from Islam, in addition to sterilizing minors to reduce their giving birth to a new generation embracing Islam.

What China is committing in East Turkistan is a war no less dangerous than the war of the Jews in Gaza; a war of extermination that reveals great hatred for Islam and Muslims, a war led by the enemies of Islam everywhere.

China's war in East Turkistan is a silent war through which it seeks to exterminate a people, obliterate its identity, uproot it, and turn it away from its religion in order to melt it into its communist culture. As for the war of the Jewish entity, it is declared with weapons and starvation, carried out by this usurping entity and its allies to cut off the lineage of the people of Gaza, occupy their land, and achieve their great dream that they are planning for.

These wars led by the oppressors are but wars of extermination aimed at eliminating everything related to Islam and Muslims and supporting the civilization of the criminal, disbelieving oppressors. They support each other, violating honor and bloodshed, violating sanctities, and stealing lands.

In the face of all this injustice and oppression, we find the people of Gaza steadfast, offering the world lessons in sacrifice and determination to defend their land, and we find the Uyghur Muslims standing tall like the roots of a land that the dragon has not been able to uproot.

Despite the injustice and oppression that the people of Turkistan are subjected to, and the violations that reveal a brutal crime and a war of extermination, they are silently resisting the suppression of the Chinese authorities and their forcing them to deny their religion by threats.

China has established several camps to arrest every Muslim and torture him and force him to abandon his religion and apostatize from it. Camps where their brains are washed and filled with its atheist communist culture, deliberately blacking out these repressive practices and brutal policies through which it seeks to exterminate an entire people. Despite that, the stench of these heinous acts has spread; the US State Department reaffirmed in its annual report on human rights for 2024, issued on August 12, that China continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in East Turkistan. In order to cover up the stench of its policies and crimes, China holds forums through which it seeks to deny what is being promoted about it, such as the "Development of Human Rights in Xinjiang" forum, and all the topics raised were an attempt to justify its crimes against human rights in East Turkistan, and to beautify its ugly image before the world through mock events aimed at covering up the repressive reality, obliterating the truth, and whitewashing the violations it commits against Uyghur Muslims.

Also, for many years, China continues to organize the Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition as part of its policy to beautify its occupation of East Turkistan and promote the policy of national establishment, which represents one of the pillars of ethnic genocide crimes. Through this exhibition, Chinese propaganda seeks to promote the idea that the heritage of the indigenous peoples of East Turkistan, such as the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz, is part of Chinese culture or has been formed under its influence.

O Ummah of Islam: Where are you from what is happening to your children in East Turkistan?! Why this humiliation and this silence?! Your sons are resisting despite the oppression they face, fighting with a strong and steadfast faith, dear despite the humiliation of the Chinese authorities. So what are you waiting for to support them?!

These unjust infidels are fighting Islam embodied in the Uyghurs, wanting to eliminate it and remove it from their hearts, but they are steadfast and are seeking the help of their brothers in religion, so what are you doing, O Muslims?

O scholars of Muslims: Your brothers in Turkistan are being executed so that Islam is not taken from them, for they are the scholars who spread its rulings and clarify them. But China seeks to silence them, so where are you from spreading your message? Have you spoken about this war that China is waging silently against Muslims there, exposing it on pulpits and informing the general public about it? Have you called on the armies of Muslims and urged them to hasten to put an end to this extermination and ethnic cleansing?

China has claimed that it is fighting terrorism, and a "peace" conference was organized under the title "Resisting Terrorism and Maintaining Global Security in the New Situation: Regional and International Responsibilities," and called on the international system to cooperate in fighting terrorism and imposing global security, and it has become clear what is meant by "terrorism," it is Islam and everything that symbolizes it as a great ancient civilization that is working to restore its position and return to life to lead people to the path of salvation and deliverance and erase every trace of this rotten and corrupt Western civilization.

O Muslims: We in the Women's Section of Hizb ut-Tahrir bear witness to Allah that we have called on the people of power and strength and launched one distress call after another, appealing to the scholars, armies, and everyone in whose hands political decisions are; to put an end to these exterminations, and we affirmed that this will only be in a state that brings together the Muslims and fends off the hands of the criminal infidels.

O Muslims: The enemies see us as one nation and deal with us in every Muslim country as if we are their enemies, they despise our sons, kill them, and seek to exterminate us all, so when will you move and when will the blood boil in your veins and you realize that it is a war of existence? When will you understand that the war is a war between two civilizations: our Islamic civilization or their Western civilization?

When will you realize that these people will not be satisfied with exterminating the people of Turkistan, nor the people of Gaza, nor Central Africa, nor other Muslims everywhere? The issue is much deeper than that; it is a war between a civilization from the All-Knowing, the Wise, and a civilization invented by the thought of a sterile human being who dared to his Creator and enacted rulings and laws, and what a difference between a civilization placed by the Creator of the universe, the Wise, the Expert, and a civilization placed by the ungrateful, despicable slave!

Women's Section

In the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir