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Washington DC [US], March 16 (ANI): The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) strongly criticised and rejected what it described as Beijing’s so-called “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress," recently approved by the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China on March 12, 2026.
According to the statement posted on its official platform, the ETGE claimed that although the legislation is presented as a measure to promote ethnic unity, it actually establishes a legal framework that could impose Han Chinese identity, language and culture on non-Han communities. The organisation alleged that such measures would violate international principles against racial discrimination.
The group further asserted that the law expands the use of Mandarin Chinese across education, media and public life, while restricting the use of minority languages such as Uyghur, Tibetan and Mongolian. In its statement, the ETGE also accused Beijing of pursuing policies of for...
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