Guwahati: Anti-China protests were conducted worldwide on October 1 to commemorate China’s National Day as China gets ready for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP), which is likely to support President Xi Jinping’s bid for a third term.
In Tokyo, a large number of Japanese residents demonstrated in support of the oppressed populations in Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Slogans denouncing China’s ruthless crackdowns in all minority regions welcomed early-morning joggers near the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. This was a demonstration in opposition to the ongoing deprivation of fundamental human rights that were guaranteed even in the Chinese constitution.
In spite of the fact that Japanese businesses assisted in building China’s modern industrial foundations, posters also discussed the harm China has done to Japan over the previous fifty years.
Later in the day, activists from all across Japan and representatives of China’s minority ethnic groups marched through Tokyo’s centre while carrying banners, flags, and posters critical of China.
They pleaded with the rest of the world to realise the damage China is doing.
The two main themes of the protest were “nothing to celebrate” and “day of shame,” which resonate strongly not only in Japan but also more and more around the world.
A symbolic protest was conducted by the Tibetan Diaspora and the president of the Tibetan organisation in Vienna, Nawang Lobsang Taglung. “The fight for Tibet’s freedom will continue in the future,” Nawang declared.
Several civil society organisations opposed to the Chinese government gathered in Paris to express their outrage over the government’s treatment of various ethnic groups aggressively and in violation of human rights.
More than 100 people from groups like Students for Free Tibet (SFT), Committee for the Liberation of Hong Kong, Association of Uyghurs in France, as well as Mongolian, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese groups participated in a big protest near the Chinese embassy.
As part of the Global Day of Action, protesters carried signs calling for China to stop its atrocities against the Uyghur people as well as its abuses of the people of Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Additionally, they urged the international community to band together to stop China from perpetrating these crimes against humanity.
Chinese Democratic Party Overseas Committee, Netherland for Hong Kong, Southern Mongolian Congress, The Church of Almighty God, Stitching Nederland Service Centre voor het verlaten van de Chinese Communistische (End CCP Service Center Netherlands), Human Rights Watch in China, and Tibet Support Group all joined forces for the first time in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to denounce the Chinese Communist Party.
Large-scale demonstrations took place in Canada as well as major American states including New York and California.
The Uyghur minority in Istanbul, Turkey, commemorated China’s 73rd National Day as the start of a period of oppression, persecution, famine, and inhumane atrocities against the East Turkestani people.
In Istanbul’s Sariyer area, Uyghur NGOs demonstrated against Chinese policies of assimilation and genocide in front of the Chinese Consulate.
Uyghur leaders who led the demonstration included Rushan Abbas, a well-known activist and the founder and executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs, Hidayetullah Oghuzhan, president of the East Turkestan Education and Solidarity Association (ETESA), Abduselam Teklimakan, president of the East Turkestan New Generation Movement (ETNGM), and members of the Uyghur Academy.
The holy Quran’s verses and the East Turkestan national anthem were recited before the protest began. Protesters chanted “China Stop Genocide,” “Release Our Relatives,” “Where Are Our Relatives,” and “Stop Starvation” in opposition to Chinese policies and President Xi Jinping.
Around fifty Uyghur activists riding motorcycles and waving the flags of East Turkestan and Turkiye passed by the protest site. A signature campaign requesting support from the UN was also displayed on a sizable banner.
Amnesty International claims that the state of human rights in China has gotten worse. As a result of merely exercising their right to freedom of expression and other human rights, human rights lawyers and activists have reported harassment and intimidation, unfair trials, arbitrary detention without charge or trial, indefinite incommunicado detention, torture, and other forms of ill-treatment.
According to Amnesty International’s 2021 report, the CCP government continues to target Muslims in Xinjiang with a campaign of political indoctrination, arbitrary mass incarceration, torture, and forced cultural assimilation. The data for the Amnesty report were gathered between October 2019 and May 2021. It was based on 128 interviews with people, including 55 former internment camp inmates and 68 relatives of persons who were either missing or assumed to be in custody