The East Turkistan Government in Exile demanded that the International Criminal Court (ICC) issue an arrest warrant for Xi Jinping.
The East Turkistan Government in Exile, an organization that represents the occupied region where the Chinese Communist Party is currently engaging in genocide, demanded this weekend that the International Criminal Court issue an arrest warrant for Xi Jinping in recognition of that genocide.
The ICC, an international agency with no enforcement mechanism, issued a similar warrant on Friday for Russian leader Vladimir Putin,him with war crimes in Ukraine. The ICC specifically cited reports of forced mass transfers of children out of Ukraine into Russian-occupied territory as a war crime as per international legal standards.
“It is forbidden by international law for occupying powers to transfer civilians from the territory they live in to other territories,” ICC President Judge Piotr Hofmański said in a statement announcing the warrant. Russia is not a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which created the ICC and grants it jurisdiction over party states.
The ICC has not taken any similar measures against Xi in China despite years of exhaustive evidence indicating that Xi hasof children from their homes in East Turkistan, as well as Tibet and Inner Mongolia, to be educated in “boarding schools” away from their parents, not taught their indigenous language or culture and forbidden from practicing religion.
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