A recent meeting in Geneva between Uyghur Congress representatives and Chinese diplomats became understandably heated as China denied occupation of Uyghur, Mongolian, and Tibetan land under the notion that present day Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia have always been under the authority of China. Uyghur representative Rebiya Kadeer countered that statement with an eloquent yet forceful history lesson; “Historically imperial states such as Tsarist Russia and Britain will admit that they obtained colonized territories through occupation, but the Chinese will not accept it… We came here to discuss the issue of human rights, not land…History is to be written by historians. You are diplomats, not historians. You cannot write history. The Chinese Communist Party cannot write the history of my country….Occupied land never belongs to the occupier. Until the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese people never established a state named Cunggu. You did not have the strength for this. You invaded our territory in 1949.”
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