Washington DC, Sept. 30 -- The East Turkistan National Movement (ETNM), a US-based non-profit advocacy group, is set to hold a demonstration on October 12 at Lafayette Park outside the White House, marking 76 years since the Chinese invasion of East Turkistan in 1949.

The event, which will take place from 1 pm to 3 pm, aims to bring attention to what organisers call the ongoing genocide and colonisation campaign against the Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which many in the diaspora refer to as East Turkistan.

ETNM took to the social media platform X to promote October 12 as a "National Day of Mourning for East Turkistan," aiming to rally public support and push for international...