Washington, Aug. 31 -- Marking the International Day against Nuclear Tests, the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) issued a strong condemnation of China's decades-long nuclear testing program in Lop Nur, calling it a deliberate act of "nuclear genocide" against the people of East Turkistan.

In a statement posted on X, ETGE said it "solemnly honours the memory of the hundreds of thousands" who perished as a result of nuclear testing carried out by China between 1964 and 1996. The group claimed that over the course of 47 nuclear tests, equivalent to more than 1,600 Hiroshima bombs, China's program killed an estimated 750,000 people and left more than a million suffering from cancers, birth defects, and radiation-related illnesses. ...